[141:3] Acts ix. 15, 16.

[142:1] Acts xxvii. 20.  This part of the history of the apostle has been illustrated with singular ability by James Smith, Esq. of Jordanhill in his “Voyage and Shipwreck of St Paul.”

[142:2] Acts xxvii. 5, 6.

[142:3] Acts xxviii. 1.  That Melita is Malta has been conclusively established by Smith in his “Voyage and Shipwreck of St Paul.”  “Dissertation,” ii.

[142:4] Acts xxviii. 11.  “With regard to the dimensions of the ships of the ancients, some of them must have been quite equal to the largest merchantman of the present day.  The ship of St Paul had, in passengers and crew, 276 persons on board, besides her cargo of wheat, and as they were carried on by another ship of the same class, she must also have been of great size.  The ship in which Josephus was wrecked contained 600 people.”—­Smith’s Voyage and Shipwreck of St Paul, p. 147.

[143:1] Acts xxviii. 13.

[143:2] Acts xxvii. 17.

[143:3] Acts xxvii. 29.  “The ancient vessels did not carry, in general, so large anchors as those which we employ; and hence they had often a greater number of them.  Athenaeus mentions a ship which had eight iron anchors.”  Hackett, p. 372.

[143:4] Acts xxvii. 27.

[143:5] “When the Lively, frigate, unexpectedly fell in with this very point, the quarter-master on the look-out, who first observed it, states, in his evidence at the court-martial, that, at the distance of a quarter of a mile the land could not be seen.”—­Smith’s Voyage and Shipwreck of St Paul, pp. 89, 90.

[144:1] Hackett, p. 371.

[144:2] Acts xxvii. 28.

[144:3] Conybeare and Howson, ii. 351.

[144:4] Acts xxvii. 39.

[144:5] Acts xxvii 41.

[144:6] Smith’s “Voyage and Shipwreck of St Paul,” p. 102.

[144:7] Smith’s “Voyage and Shipwreck of St Paul,” p. 92.

[144:8] Acts xxvii. 41.

[145:1] Smith’s “Voyage and Shipwreck of St Paul,” p. 104.

[145:2] Conybeare and Howson make the population more than 2,000,000 (ii. 376).  Merivale reduces it to something less than 700,000 (iv. 520).  In Smith’s “Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography” it is stated as upwards of 2,000,000.  Greswell makes it about 1,000,000 ("Dissertations,” iv. 46).  Dean Milman reckons it from 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 ("History of Latin Christianity,” i. 23).

[145:3] Merivale, iv. 391.

[145:4] Rev. xvii. 1.

[146:1] Merivale, iv. 412.

[146:2] Merivale, iv. 414-420.

[146:3] Rev. xviii. 11.

[146:4] Acts xxviii. 14.

[147:1] Acts xxviii. 14.

[147:2] Acts xxviii. 15.

[147:3] Acts xxviii. 15.

[147:4] Called in our English version “the captain of the guard.”  The celebrated Burrus was at this time (A.D. 61) the Praetorian Prefect.  Wieseler, p. 393.  See also Greswell’s “Dissertations,” iv. p. 199.