Acts 13:4

So they being sent forth of the Holy Ghost,.... This is said, lest it should be thought they were sent by men; it was the Holy Ghost that moved the prophets at Antioch to separate them from them, and…

Being sent forth by the Holy Ghost - Having been called to this world by the Holy Spirit, and being under his direction. Departed unto Seleucia - This city was situated at the mouth of the river…

Being sent forth by the Holy Ghost - By his influence, authority, and under his continual direction. Without the first, they were not qualified to go; without the second, they had no authority to go;…

In these verses we have,

I. A general account of the coming of Barnabas and Saul to the famous island of Cyprus; and perhaps thitherward they steered their course because Barnabas was a native of that…

sent forth by the Holy Ghost A repetition which marks the solemn character which St Luke and also his informant attached to this new form of the Christian work.

unto Seleucia which was the seaport of…