ACTS CHAP. XXVIII. from the beginning to Ver. 30.
[CHRIST. LIX] [NERO. V] PAUL and his company are the three winter moneths in Malta: where he doth some miracles. And when winter was now drawing over, they put to sea a∣gain, in an Alexandrian bottom, whose badge was Castor and Pollux: or the picture of two young men on white horses, with either of them a javelin in his hand, and by him half an egge and a starre: whom Heathenish folly and superstition con∣ceited to have been twins begotten by Iupiter, and Deities favourable to those that sailed on the sea. And this seemeth to have been the reason why Luke doth men∣tion this circumstance, because he would intimate the mens superstition, as expecting better sailing under this badge then they had had.
From Melita they sail to Syracuse in Sicilie, and there abide three daies. From thence to Rhegium in Italy, and from thence to Puteoli: there they finde Christi∣ans and stay with them seven daies: and then set away for Rome. At Appii Forum aboue 50 miles from the City, some of the Roman Christians hearing of their com∣ing, come ••o meet them: and at the Tres Tabernae, 33 from the City, they meet with 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and so they injoy the society of one another some space together as they tr••vell along, which was no small refreshing to Paul, who had desired so much and so long to see them.