And after he had seen the vision
And considered it, and related it to his companions: and when
they had well weighed it, and the circumstances of it:
immediately we endeavoured to go into
Macedonia;
they determined upon it, and took all the proper methods, and
made the necessary provisions for it. Here Luke, the writer of
this history, first appears, saying, "we endeavoured"; whether he
came with the apostle from Antioch, since he is commonly said to
have been a physician of Antioch; or whether he met the apostle
at Troas, since here is the first hint of him, is not certain:
assuredly gathering, that the Lord had called us for to
preach the
Gospel unto them;
they concluded from the vision with great certainty, that they
had a manifest call from God to go into Macedonia, and preach the
Gospel to the inhabitants of it, not doubting but that they
should meet with success. The Alexandrian copy, the Vulgate Latin
and Ethiopic versions, read "God", instead of "Lord".