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Act 16:6-12. They break new ground in Phrygia and Galatia - Their course in that direction being mysteriously hedged up, they travel westward to Troas, where they are divinely directed to Macedonia - The historian himself here joining the missionary party, they embark for Neapolis, and reach Philippi.
Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia - proceeding in a northwesterly direction. At this time must have been formed “the churches of Galatia” (Gal 1:2; 1Co 16:1); founded, as we learn from the Epistle to the Galatians (particularly Gal 4:19), by the apostle Paul, and which were already in existence when he was on his third missionary journey, as we learn from Act 18:23, where it appears that he was no less successful in Phrygia. Why these proceedings, so interesting as we should suppose, are not here detailed, it is not easy to say; for the various reasons suggested are not very satisfactory: for example, that the historian had not joined the party [Alford]; that he was in haste to bring the apostle to Europe [Olshausen]; that the main stream of the Church’s development was from Jerusalem to Rome, and the apostle’s labors in Phrygia and Galatia lay quite out of the line of that direction [Baumgarten].
and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost - speaking by some prophet, see on Act 11:27.
to preach the word in Asia - not the great Asiatic continent, nor even the rich peninsula now called Asia Minor, but only so much of its western coast as constituted the Roman province of Asia.