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- Acts
- Chapter 21
- Verse 3
Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden.
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Gill's Exposition
Now when we had discovered Cyprus,.... An island, as the Syriac version here calls it, which lay between Syria and Cilicia; See Gill on Act 4:36; and was, according to R. Benjamin (l), four days sail…
Barnes' Notes
Had discovered Cyprus - See the notes on Act 4:36. Into Syria - See the notes on Mat 4:24. And landed at Tyre - See the notes on Mat 11:21. To unlade her burden - Her cargo. Tyre was formerly one of…
Adam Clarke
Cyprus - See the note on Act 4:36, and see the track of this journey on the map.
Tyre - A city of Phoenicia, one of the most celebrated maritime towns in the world. See the notes on Act 12:20; Mat…
We may observe here,
I. How much ado Paul had to get clear from Ephesus, intimated in the first words of the chapter, after we had gotten from them, that is, were drawn from them as by violence. It…
Cambridge Bible
Now when we had discovered Cyprus Rev. Ver."And when we had come in sight of." "Discover" has now acquired the special sense of "finding for the first time." On Cyprus, see notes on Act 13:4 seqq.
we…
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