. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . <-,,, J M\ *ii#|^ V »•;«• - res?1 -^ *•. wrecked. While there has been some dif-ference of opinion among scholars, by thegeneral consent of most of those who haveinvestigated the matter, Melita is identifiedwith the modern Malta. The reasons forthis opinion are indicated in the articlePaul. The principal objection to this hy-pothesis is, first, that the inhabitants ofMalta were not barbarians, as implied inverse 4,
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . <-,,, J M\ *ii#|^ V »•;«• - res?1 -^ *•. wrecked. While there has been some dif-ference of opinion among scholars, by thegeneral consent of most of those who haveinvestigated the matter, Melita is identifiedwith the modern Malta. The reasons forthis opinion are indicated in the articlePaul. The principal objection to this hy-pothesis is, first, that the inhabitants ofMalta were not barbarians, as implied inverse 4, to which it is replied that the termbarbarian was used by the Jewish writersto distinguish Gentiles from Jews; second,that there are no vipers in Malta, as impliediu verse 3, to which it is replied that Malta,though now denuded of wood, and so with-out vipers, was anciently well wooded; third,that the disorder of the father of Publiusbelongs to a different locality than so dryand rocky a locality as Malta, to which it isreplied that in fact the disease is not uncom-mon there; fourth, that it is hardly possiblethat the sailors should not know the laud,as is asserted in chap, xxvii., 39, to which itis replied, they
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