. Notes, critical and explanatory, on the Acts of the apostles. we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted tldther. called Samothraki. Ncapolis \s aboutsixty-five miles distant north-west, onthe coast of Macedonia. It was theport to Philippi, as Seleucia was toAntioch, or the Pirajus to Athens. 12. And from thence — immediatelyio Fhilippi, about tea miles distantfrom Neapolis. Here was Pauls firstChurch in Europe. (See Epis. Phil.)^ The chief ciUj. Rather, first city ofthe Macedcnian portion cf the is one of the many instances inwhich Lukes narrative is corroborated, in
. Notes, critical and explanatory, on the Acts of the apostles. we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted tldther. called Samothraki. Ncapolis \s aboutsixty-five miles distant north-west, onthe coast of Macedonia. It was theport to Philippi, as Seleucia was toAntioch, or the Pirajus to Athens. 12. And from thence — immediatelyio Fhilippi, about tea miles distantfrom Neapolis. Here was Pauls firstChurch in Europe. (See Epis. Phil.)^ The chief ciUj. Rather, first city ofthe Macedcnian portion cf the is one of the many instances inwhich Lukes narrative is corroborated, in the minutest details, by the secularhistory of the time—showing, apartfrom its claims to Divine inspiration,how the authority of the book as ahistorical document can be Philippi was a first city ofthe province, is implied in its being acolony. And the Roman coins ofPhilippi are still extant from the timeof Augustus to that of of these is inscribed, 0/ thtMacedonians of the first. Some un-I derstand that as Neapolis properly. belonged to Thrace, (of the empire,Philippi was the first Macedoniancity to which the missionaries came,and that this is the sense here; butwe may rather take it to mean a chiefcity, in distinction from Neapoliswhich was inferior. V/isdom now wasto utter her voice in the city, in thechief place of concourse, within thegreat Western empire of the world.(Proverbs 1:2.) ^ A colony. The Ro-man colonies were populated by Ro-man citizens who had all the civil priv-ileges of Rome itself, and voted atRome. They were in fact extensionsof the capital to the provinces. Theywere governed by their own senateand magistrates. Some had even theirlaiid freed from tribute, and this wasthe favored case with Philippi. Vet-eran soldiers and freed-men were com-BQinly the colonists. The fact of Pliilippi being a colonj-, will explainwhat occurred, vs. 37, 38, where itbecame important to plead the rightsof Roman citizenship. ^^ And we tceroin th
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