Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Acts 28:15

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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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And from thence, when the brethren--of Rome heard of us--by letter from Puteoli, and probably by the same conveyance which took Julius' announcement of his arrival. they came to meet us as far as Appii Forum--a town forty-one miles from Rome. and the Three Taverns--thirty miles from Rome. Thus they came to greet the apostle in two parties, one stopping short at the nearer, the other going on to the more distant place. whom when Paul saw, he thanked God--for such a welcome. How sensitive he was to such Christian affection all his Epistles show (Rom 1:9, &c.). and took courage--his long-cherished purpose to "see Rome" (Act 19:21), there to proclaim the unsearchable riches of Christ, and the divine pledge that in this he should be gratified (Act 23:11), being now about to be auspiciously realized.

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