Atti 16:8

8 e passata la Misia, discesero in Troas.

Atti 16:8 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 16:8

And they passed by Mysia
Without stopping or staying there, though they came to it:

came down to Troas;
either the country of Troas, as the Syriac version renders it; which, according to Solinus ^F13, is bordered on the north part of Galatia, and was near to Lycaonia, Pisidia, and Mygdonia on the south, and to Lydia on the east, and to Mysia and Caria on the north: or rather the city of Troas, which Pliny says {n}, was formerly called Antigonia, now Alexandria, a colony of the Romans. Antigonus king of Asia called it Troas at first, because it was in the country, and near where Troy stood, but afterwards he called it, according to his own name, Antigonia; but Lysimachus king of Thrace having got this city into his hands, repaired it, and called it after the name of Alexander, Alexandria; and to distinguish it from Alexandria in Egypt, and other cities of the same name in other places, it was called Alexandria Troas.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 lb. c. 53.
F14 Hist. Nat. l. 5. c. 30.

Atti 16:8 In-Context

6 Poi traversarono la Frigia e il paese della Galazia, avendo lo Spirito Santo vietato loro d’annunziar la Parola in Asia;

7 e giunti sui confini della Misia, tentavano d’andare in Bitinia; ma lo Spirito di Gesù non lo permise loro;

8 e passata la Misia, discesero in Troas.

9 E Paolo ebbe di notte una visione: Un uomo macedone gli stava dinanzi, e lo pregava dicendo: Passa in Macedonia e soccorrici.

10 E com’egli ebbe avuta quella visione, cercammo subito di partire per la Macedonia, tenendo per certo che Dio ci avea chiamati là, ad annunziar loro l’Evangelo.