Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
next day we that were of Paul's company departed—(The words "the were of Paul's company" are omitted in the best manuscripts. They were probably added as the connecting words at the head of some church lessons).
and came to Cæsarea—a run along the coast, southward, of some thirty miles.
Philip the evangelist—a term answering apparently very much to our missionary [HOWSON], by whose ministry such joy had been diffused over Samaria and the Ethiopian eunuch had been baptized (Acts 8:4-40).
one of the seven—deacons, who had "purchased to himself a good degree" (I Timothy 3:13). He and Paul now meet for the first time, some twenty-five years after that time.
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