Acts 28

Acts 28:1

CAlled Melita] Now called Malta, an Iland between Africa and Sicile; there is another of the same name in the Adriatick bay between Italy and Epidaurus.

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barbarous people] They were so called who spake neither Greek nor Latin, and were more rudely bred.

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yet vengeance suffereth not to live] Whom they took to bee a goddesse called Dice, or Nemesis.

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whose sign was] Such as ships usually have whereby they may be the better known, and according to which sometimes they are named.

Castor and Pollux] The Painims feigned these to be gods of the sea.

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at Syracuse] A famous Citie in Sicilia.

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to Rhegium] A Citie in Italy over against Messana of Sicilia.

to Puteolt] A Sea-town of the kingdome of Naples.

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Appii-forum] A Market-town upon a long high-way to the sea-ward, which Appius caused his Souldiers to make good; by the which there stood three taverus about a dayes journey from Rome.

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the centurion] Or, governor of the Pretory or Judgment hall.

suffered to dwell] He was not put into the common prison; which favour God gave him for his comfort, and the advancement of the Gospel.

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for the hope] That is, for Jesus Christ his cause, whom they had long looked for, and who had now shewed himself their redeemer

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this sect] Meaning this profession of Christianity.

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the kingdome of God] That the kingdome spoken of by the Prophets, now was offered unto them by Christ.

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Go unto this people] Isaiah 6:9. Matthew 13:14. Mar. 4. 12. Luke 8:10. John 12. 14. Romans 11:8.

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have they closed] They are in wilfull ignorance, and willingly know not, as 2 Peter 3:5. therefore God giveth them to strong delusions, to beleeve lyes, to their destruction, 2 Thess. 2. 11, 12.

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the salvation of God] Meaning the Gospel, shewing the counsell of God therein, and the powerfull effect thereof by his Spirit.