. Notes, critical and explanatory, on the Acts of the apostles. , 24. CHAPTER XVII. I 27. Paul in European Greece.—Athens. A. D. 52. Ch. 17:1-34. 1. The historian Luke now speakssf the missionary company as thej/,implying that he himself remained atPhilippi. Some think that Timothywent with them from this city. ^ Fussedthrough—without stopping, still pursu-ing their way into Macedonia.—Amphi-polis was about thirty-three miles south- west from Philippi, on the river Stry-mon, and three miles from the sea. Itwas tlie capital of the first division ofMacedonia, and an Athenian journeye
. Notes, critical and explanatory, on the Acts of the apostles. , 24. CHAPTER XVII. I 27. Paul in European Greece.—Athens. A. D. 52. Ch. 17:1-34. 1. The historian Luke now speakssf the missionary company as thej/,implying that he himself remained atPhilippi. Some think that Timothywent with them from this city. ^ Fussedthrough—without stopping, still pursu-ing their way into Macedonia.—Amphi-polis was about thirty-three miles south- west from Philippi, on the river Stry-mon, and three miles from the sea. Itwas tlie capital of the first division ofMacedonia, and an Athenian journeyed along the Macedonianextension of the Appian way. Thegreat conqueror Xerxes had passed thisway before him. Here is the hero ofgreater victories. IT Apollonia wasabout half-way between Amphipolisand Thessalonica—thirty miles. Theyprobably rested but a night in each ofthese places, possibly because therewas no synagogue there—probably be-cause they would reach the chief centralcities, as centres of influence. Thencethey came to Thessalonica. This was. the capital city of Macedonia and theresidence of the Proconsul. Cassanderchanged its name from Therma toThessalonica, which was the name ofhis wife, who was sister of Alexanderthe Grbat. Its name is now Salonica,at the north-east of the Gulf of Sa-lonica, and is a great sea-port, withsome seventy thousand inhabitants—one-half of whom are Jews — and the second city in European they found a synagogue, (literally,the synai^ogue,) which they were ex-pecting to find, and which the Jewsin that district attended. This citybecame a great city of Christian in-fluence. See 1 Thess. 1: 8. 2, 3. As hi^ manner icas—literally,according to the ni-tlcvt (with him.) Thiacalls attention to his kabi± of seekfog A. P CHAP. XVII. 287 and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of thescriptures, 3 Opening and alleging, ^that Christ must needs have Jg* ^suffered and risen again from the dead; and that thisJesus, II wh
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