Actes 20:2

2 Il parcourut cette contrée, en adressant aux disciples de nombreuses exhortations. Puis il se rendit en Grèce,

Actes 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.

Actes 20:2 In-Context

1 Lorsque le tumulte eut cessé, Paul réunit les disciples, et, après les avoir exhortés, prit congé d'eux, et partit pour aller en Macédoine.

2 Il parcourut cette contrée, en adressant aux disciples de nombreuses exhortations. Puis il se rendit en Grèce,

3 où il séjourna trois mois. Il était sur le point de s'embarquer pour la Syrie, quand les Juifs lui dressèrent des embûches. Alors il se décida à reprendre la route de la Macédoine.

4 Il avait pour l'accompagner jusqu'en Asie: Sopater de Bérée, fils de Pyrrhus, Aristarque et Second de Thessalonique, Gaïus de Derbe, Timothée, ainsi que Tychique et Trophime, originaires d'Asie.

5 Ceux-ci prirent les devants, et nous attendirent à Troas.