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- Acts
- Chapter 21
- Verse 6
And when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship; and they returned home again.
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Gill's Exposition
And when we had taken our leave one of another,.... The Alexandrian copy reads, "having prayed, we saluted one another"; with a kiss, as in Act 20:37 and so parted:
we took ship; or went aboard the…
Adam Clarke
Taken - leave - Ασπασαμενοι; Having given each other the kiss of peace, as was the constant custom of the Jews and primitive Christians.
They returned home - That is, the men, their wives, and their…
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
The best text requires here for the last clause, "and we went on board the ship, but they returned home again." There is nothing in the Greek to tell us whether the ship was the same in which they had…
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