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"Macedonia": probably the same region as later applied to the Roman province, which included the ancient Macedonia, Illyricum, Epirus, and Thessaly. This was the door for Paul to bring the faith of Christ from Asia to Europe, and the cry, "Come over and help us," could be considered by Paul as a call from the whole western world. [16]
The hymn was first sung a month before Easter on March 6, 1890. It is believed to be based on Acts 16, where Paul has a vision of a Macedonian man, who said, "Come over into Macedonia, and help us." After Gabriel wrote the hymn, a Field Secretary of missions took the song from California to Ohio, where Charles Cardwell McCabe popularized the ...
Along with Gaius, another Roman Macedonian, Aristarchus was seized by the mob at Ephesus and taken into the theater . Later, Aristarchus returned with Paul from Greece to Asia ( Acts 20:4 ). At Caesarea , he embarked with Paul on a ship of Adramyttium bound for Myra in Lycia ( Acts 27:2 ); whether he traveled with him from there to Rome is not ...
Paul and his companions, Silas and Timothy, had plans to journey to the southwest portion of Asia Minor to preach the gospel but during the night, Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him to go to Macedonia to help them. After seeing the vision, Paul and his companions left for Macedonia to preach the gospel to them. [134]
Paul was accompanied by at least two companions following him from Macedonia, including Aristarchus (verse 2) and the unnamed "we"-narrator (verse 1). [3] The narrator's customary nautical detail is shown by noting that the first ship they boarded for the coastal voyage originally came from Adramyttium (at the Aegean north coast towards the Troas, verse 2), and that the second came from ...
Tychicus (/ ˈ t ɪ k ɪ k ə s /: Greek: Τυχικός) was an Asiatic Christian who, with Trophimus, accompanied the Apostle Paul on a part of his journey from Macedonia to Jerusalem. He is also alluded to have been with Paul in Rome, where the apostle sent him to Ephesus, probably for the purpose of building up and encouraging the church ...
In his sermon, Paul quotes from certain Greek philosophers and poets, namely in verse 17:28. He alludes to passages from Epimenides [7] and from either Aratus or Cleanthes. Paul then explained concepts such as the resurrection of the dead and salvation, in effect a prelude to the future discussions of Christology.
Basil I, nicknamed "the Macedonian" (Ancient Greek: Βασίλειος ὁ Μακεδών, romanized: Basíleios ō Makedṓn; 811 – 29 August 886), was Byzantine emperor from 867 to 886. Born to a peasant family in Macedonia , he rose to prominence in the imperial court after gaining the favour of Emperor Michael III , whose mistress he ...