v. 2); but he had never been at Rome, hence in his Epistle

to that Church he puts the same points upon argument. “This distinction between the two Epistles is suited to the relation in which the Apostle stood to his different correspondents.” See Paley’s _Horæ Paulinæ_.

1056 ‒ Compare the time spent on the former voyage above, p. 440, and the note.

1057 ‒ Note the force of the imperfect κατεφίλουν, Acts xx. 37.

1058 ‒ C. and H., II. 239: comp. Acts xxi. 1.

1059 ‒ Ἀποσπασθέντας, Acts xxi. 1.

1060 ‒ Distant from Miletus about 40 nautical miles, a passage of about 6 hours: C. and H., II. 239.

1061 ‒ The sea-port of the city of Xanthus, 10 miles distant, devoted to the worship of Apollo, and the seat of a famous oracle. Comp. Hor. _Od._ III. iv. 64.

1062 ‒ Or _rising_ Cyprus, in English nautical phrase. The word, in reference to sea-voyages, means _to see land_, _to bring land into view_, _to make_ land.

1063 ‒ See above, p. 373.

1064 ‒ See above, p. 391.

1065 ‒ The distance being but 28 miles from Tyre. For a notice of this sea-port, see above, p. 37, n.

1066 ‒ See above, p. 378.

1067 ‒ See above, p. 403, and note.

1068 ‒ Compare for similar symbolic prophetical actions Isai. xx. 2, 3; Jerem. xiii. 1–11.

1069 ‒ Comp. above, p. 344, and comp. pp. 162, 163.

1070 ‒ See above, p. 402, and note.

1071 ‒ For the word _carriage_ of our Version here used see Judg. xviii. 21; 1 Sam. xvii. 22. Ἐπισκευασάμενοι is the better reading, and denotes _having packed up_, made ready for the journey. The Apostle, it is to be remarked, had with him the proceeds of the great collection.

1072 ‒ On his character and influence, see pp. 426, 427, and the notes.

1073 ‒ C. and H., II. 259.

1074 ‒ For notices of the excited and fanatical state of the Jews at this period, see Milman, _Hist. of the Jews_, II. 166, 172.

1075 ‒ For these, see _Class-Book of O. T. History_, pp. 158, 159. Agrippa I., it will be remembered, showed his sympathy with Judaism by defraying the expenses of certain Nazarites; see above, p. 405, and the note.

1076 ‒ See above, p. 272, and note. It is clear from that passage that this Court contained the Treasure-Chests, but it also appears to have contained chambers, in one of which the Nazarites performed their vows. C. and H., II. 269.

1077 ‒ “Made of brass and very strong, shut at midnight with difficulty by twenty men.” Jos. _B. J._ VI. 5. 3. Comp. V. 5. 3, cited in C. and H., II. 269, n.

1078 ‒ On this tower, see above, p. 53, n.and p. 91.

1079 ‒ Comp. Acts xii. 4, 6; see above, p. 406, n.

1080 ‒ He had come from Egypt into Judæa, and giving himself out to be a prophet, collected in the desert upwards of 30,000 men (4000 of whom were Sicarii or “murderers,” Acts