John Bengel Commentary - Acts 17:14 - 17:14

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John Bengel Commentary - Acts 17:14 - 17:14


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Act 17:14. Ὡς ἐπὶ) ὡς with ἐπὶ, ἐς, πρὸς, is often pleonastic, as Heupelius shows in his Treatise on Dialects, p. 69, and so the LXX., ὡς πρὸς θάλασσαν, Eze 41:12; but in this passage ὡς is put in its proper sense, for as it were, as if. Their journey seemed to be towards the sea; but Athens was the destination aimed at. Perhaps Paul himself, or Silas and Timothy, did not at the time know whither the road was leading them: see following ver. (which implies that Paul followed the guidance of others rather than his own).