Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 20:2

2 Zǒu biàn le nà yī daì dìfang , yòng xǔduō huà quànmiǎn méntǔ , ( huò zuò zhòngrén ) ránhòu lái dào xī là .

Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 20:2 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 20:2

And when he had gone over those parts
Of Macedonia, and the cities in it before mentioned;

and had given them much exhortation;
to abide by the doctrines and ordinances of the Gospel, and to walk worthy of it in their lives and conversations; and this exhortation he was frequently giving, as often as he had opportunity, improving his time much this way, and continued long at it: and, having pursued it to a sufficient length,

he came into Greece;
or Hellas; which, according to Ptolomy ^F5 and Solinus, ^F6, is properly true Greece; the former makes it to be the same with Achaia, where Corinth was; and the latter says it was in his time called Attica, where Athens was; so Pliny ^F7, who also says, that Thessaly was so called: this Hellas included Macedonia, Epirus, Thessaly, Achaia, which is properly Greece, Peloponnesus, and the adjacent islands.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 Geograph. l. 3. c. 15.
F6 Polyhist, c. 12.
F7 Nat. Hist. l. 4. c. 7.

Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 20:2 In-Context

1 Luàn déng zhī hòu , Bǎoluó qǐng méntǔ lái , quànmiǎn tāmen , jiù cíbié qǐ xíng , wǎng Mǎqídùn qù .

2 Zǒu biàn le nà yī daì dìfang , yòng xǔduō huà quànmiǎn méntǔ , ( huò zuò zhòngrén ) ránhòu lái dào xī là .

3 Zaì nàli zhù le sān gè yuè , jiāngyào zuò chuán wǎng Xìlìyà qù . Yóutaìrén shèjì yào haì tā , tā jiù déng yì cóng Mǎqídùn huí qù .

4 Tóng tā dào yà xī yà qù de , yǒu bì lī yà rén bì luó sī de érzi suǒ bā tè , tiē sǎ luó ní jiā rén yà lǐ dá gǔ , hé xī gōng dū , hái yǒu tè bì rén gāi yóu , bìng Tímótaì , yòu yǒu yà xī yà rén tuī jī gǔ , hé tè luó fēi mó .

5 Zhèxie rén xiān zǒu zaì tè luó yà dĕnghòu wǒmen .