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Οὐ σοφισταὶ ἥκομεν, οὐδὲ ἀπιστεῖν ἕτοιμοι, θεαταὶ δε μόνον τῶν
γεγραμμένων, ἐξετάζομεν τὴν Γραφήν.

Philostr. Jun. Icon. 1. 24.

Ὅπου οὐκ ἔστι πίστις, ἅπαντα νοσεῖ, καὶ οὐδὲν ἄλλο ἢ μάχαι τίκτονται
λόγων, τοῦ πιθανοτέρου τὸν ἕτερον ἀνατρέπειν δοκοῦντος Η πίστις
ὀφθαλμός ἐστιν· ὁ μὴ ἔχων ὀφθαλμοὺς οὐδὲν εὑρίσκει, ἀλλὰ μόνον
Ζητεῖ.
Theophylact, from Chrysostom.

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CHAP. XX.

PAUL now departs to Macedonia (ver. 1.) and Greece (2 & 3.), thence going into Syria through Macedonia. On the Jews laying snares for him, he goes to Troas (3-6). What happened there is related in 7-12. Thence he repairs to Miletus (15.), there to await the convocation of Ephesian presbyters, to whom other Ionian presbyters had joined themselves. (See the note on ver. 18.) He delivers to them a discourse, or charge; and bids them farewell (17-fin.). (Kuin.)

VERSE 1. προσκαλεσάμενος—τοὺς μαθητὰς καὶ ἀσπα rάuevos, "after having convoked and given them the σάμενος, farewell salutation, or embrace," i. e. having bid them farewell. On ȧσrágeσbaι see the note on Matth. 5, 47. Wetstein observes, that it was customary to salute with a kiss, not only on arriving, but on taking leave. And he cites examples from Xenophon and Plutarch. This salutation, we may observe, was similar to our shaking by the hand, which takes place at both those times.

2. διελθὼν δὲ τὰ μέρη ἐκεῖνα, “having traversed those parts, that tract of country." Kuinoel refers to Keuchen. Anal. 116; and he considers pégn as equivalent to opia, confines; which is not at all applicable here. The idiom in question is not unknown in our own language; and as the Philological illustrators give no tolerable account of it, it may be worth while to re

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