Sunday, July 4, 2021

Acts 20:1 -


Troas

Alexandria Troas was founded by Antigonus, one of Alexander the Great’s commanders, in 310BC (see Map 24). Troas became a Roman ‘colonia’ – a colony populated by veteran soldiers and their families – during the reign of the Emperor Augustus. It would have been a place of fascination and mystery to an educated Greek speaking man such as Paul, as it was close to the site of the fabled ancient city of Ilium (Troy).

Paul would have been familiar with Homer’s account of Helen – the beautiful wife of King Menelaus, abducted by the Trojans and later rescued by the Greeks who sailed across the Aegean Sea and built a wooden horse in order to gain entry to the city.




μία (míaf

  1. nominative feminine of ένας (énas), (one)
  2. accusative feminine of ένας (énas)

Declension


On the first day of the week.
Την πρώτη ημέρα της εβδομάδας.

 



Eutychus Revived at Troas

           μία

On the first day of the week, we[a] assembled to break bread. Paul spoke to them, and since he was about to depart the next day, he extended his message until midnight.







Colossians 2:16‭-‬19 HCSB

Therefore, don’t let anyone judge you in regard to food and drink or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day. These are a shadow of what was to come; the substance is the Messiah. Let no one disqualify you, insisting on ascetic practices and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm and inflated without cause by his unspiritual mind. He doesn’t hold on to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and tendons, develops with growth from God.
Colossians 2:16‭-‬19 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/col.2.16-19.HCSB

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