Chapter 28. Famous People Who Suffered
Loneliness And Depression
Depression And Despair Aboard A Shipwreck, But Paul Speaks
Hope
THE
ACTS OF THE APOSTLES.
CHAPTER XXVII.
The Sea Voyage to Rome.
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UMMARY.--The
Centurion in Charge of Paul Embarks with Him for Rome. At Myra Take an
Alexandrian Corn Ship. The Weather Tempestuous Paul Advises the Centurion to
Go into Harbor for the Winter. Caught by the Euroclydon and Driven. After
Fourteen Days of Drifting Paul Assures Them That All Will Escape. The Ship
Runs Ashore on the Island of Malta and Is Destroyed. The Men All Saved.
1. When it was determined. When all was settled that Paul should go
to Italy, and the time appointed had come. Delivered Paul and certain
other prisoners. No information is given concerning these companions in
bonds. To a centurion named Julius. All we learn of this Roman
officer is favorable. It is remarkable how uniformly Paul commanded the
respect of the Roman officials with whom he came in contact. Sergius Paulus,
Gallio, Felix, Festus and Julius are examples of this. Of the Augustan
band. Rather, "cohort." Josephus says that this period one of
the cohorts stationed at Cęsarea took the name of Augustus (Wars, 2:12, 7
and 2:12, 5).
2. A ship of Adramyttium. This city was on the Asiatic coast of the
Ęgean Sea. In those days there were no regular lines of passenger ships,
and in making a voyage from Judea to Rome several ships might be necessary
to complete the voyage. Paul took three before he reached Rome. Aristarchus,
a Macedonian. He is named in 19:29 and in 20:4.
Luke and Aristarchus are the only fellow-Christians who attended Paul on the
journey, as far as we know. In Col. 4:10,
written while a prisoner at Rome, Paul calls Aristarchus his
fellow-prisoner.
3. The next day we touched at Sidon. The next after sailing. Sidon
was about sixty-seven miles north of Cęsarea. Here the centurion suffered
Paul to go ashore to see his friends, the disciples in Sidon.
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