. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . ully intro-duced into Palestine, though probably at a later mile of the Jews is said to have been of two kinds, long or short, dependent on the length of thepace, which varied in different parts, the long pacebeing double the short one. Mi-letns (L. fr. Gr.) (Acts xx. 15, 17), less cor-rectly Mi-letnm (2 Tim. iv. 20), a celebrated citynear the mouth of the river Aleander. It was thebirth-place of Thales, Anaximander, &c.; and wasanciently the principal sea-port for its region. , on the return voyage from his third mission-ary journey,
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . ully intro-duced into Palestine, though probably at a later mile of the Jews is said to have been of two kinds, long or short, dependent on the length of thepace, which varied in different parts, the long pacebeing double the short one. Mi-letns (L. fr. Gr.) (Acts xx. 15, 17), less cor-rectly Mi-letnm (2 Tim. iv. 20), a celebrated citynear the mouth of the river Aleander. It was thebirth-place of Thales, Anaximander, &c.; and wasanciently the principal sea-port for its region. , on the return voyage from his third mission-ary journey, sent for the presbyters of Ephesus tomeet him at Miletus (Acts xx. 17), twenty or thirtymiles distant by land, and here he gave them asolemn and affectionate charge (18 ff.). In the con-text we have the geographical relations of Miletusbrought out distinctly. It lay on the coast to theS. of Ephesus. It was a days sail from Trogyllium(ver. 15). Moreover, to those who are sailing fromthe N., it is in the direct line for Cos. The site of. General View of the Theatre and Ruins of Miletue.—From Laborde, Voyage en Orient.—(Fairbairo.) Miletus has now receded ten miles from the coast,and even in the apostles time it must have lost itsstrictly maritime position. The passage in 2 Tim.,where Miletus is mentioned, presents a very seriousdifficulty to the theory that there was only one Ro-man imprisonment. Miletus was far more famous500 years before St. Pauls day, than it ever becameafterward. In early times it was the most flourish-ing city of the Ionian Greeks. (Ionia.) In thenatural order of events, it was absorbed in the Per-sian empire. After a brief period of spirited inde-pendence, it received a blow from which it never re-covered, in the siege conducted by Alexander theGreat, when on his Eastern campaign. But still itheld, even through the Roman period, the rank of asecond-rate trading-town, and Strabo mentions itsfour harbors. At this time it was politically in theprovince of
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