The harmony, chronicle and order of the New Testament the text of the four evangelists methodized, story of the acts of the apostles analyzed, order of the epistles manifested, times of the revelation observed : all illustrated, with variety of observations upon the chiefest difficulties textuall & talmudicall, for clearing of their sense and language : with an additional discourse concerning the fall of Jerusalem and the condition of the Jews in that land afterward / John Lightfoot ...

ACTS CHAP. XX. Ver. 6. And we came to them to Troas in five daies: Where we abode seven daies. And so to Ver. 17. of CHAP. XXI.

FRom Philippi after Easter, he setteth away for Corinth, where he staied so little, that he came to Troas within five daies after the company was come thither which had gone before: for so are the five daies to be understood: not that Paul in five daies went from Philippi to Corinth and Troas, but that his company which was set out with him, but set directly for Troas, had staied but five daies at Troas, before he came up to them.

There he celebrates the Lords day and the Lords Supper, and preacheth and dis∣courseth all night [a thing not altogether strange in the Jewish customs, Ierus. S••tah fol. 16.4. R. Meir was teaching profoundly all the night of the Sabbaths in the Synagogue of Chamath.] So that Eutychus sleeps and sals and is taken up dead, but recovered by miracle. The change and beginning and end of the Christian Sabbath may be obser∣ved here.

When he goes now from thence, it is most likely it was the time when he left his Cloak, Books and Parchments with Carpus, 2 Tim. 4.13. His Cloak: for he was now going among his own Nation in Iudea: and there he was to wear his Jewish habit, and he left his Roman garb here, till he should come into those Roman quarters again. It may be, the Parchments were the Originals of those Epistles that he had already written: for that he sent transcripts, and reserved the Originall copies, may be collected from these passages, I Tertius who wrote out this Epistle, Rom. 16.22. The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand, 1 Cor. 16.21. Col. 4.18. which was the token in every Epistle, 2. Thess. 3.17. for all the Epistle beside was written with another hand.

From Troas by severall journeys he cometh to Miletum: and thither he sends for the Elders of the Church of Ephesus, which City was near at hand: But who were these? Not Timothy and Trophimus, for they were in his company already, and had been with him in his journey hither, but these twelve men upon whom he had laid his hands, and bestowed on them the holy Ghost, and so fitted them for the Ministry, Act. 19.6. and whomsoever besides Timothy had ordained into the Ministry whilest he was there.

Although the Ephesian and the rest of the Asian Churches, were but in an ill case at this time in regard of false doctrines and much Apostacy that had corrupted and can∣kered them, yet doth the Apostle foresee that the case will be worse and worse with them still, and that grievous Wolves should yet break in upon them: And this he concludeth, not only from the boldnesse that he was assured false teachers would use and assume to themselves when he was gone, but from those predictions of Christ that had foretold what sad Apostacy should occurre, and what false teach∣ers should arise before the great day of Ierusalem came, which was now coming on apace.