These three months that St. Paul staid at Malta, he spent like a true labourer in the Lord's vineyard, planting a church that was famous for its stedfastness in the truth. Had wintered in the isle; it was their wont to lay up their ships all the winter season; as we may see, Acts 27:12. And to this day the galleys seldom go out on those seas in winter. Castor and Pollux; feigned to be the sons of Jupiter, and to have the ordering of tempests, and the care of mariners, and were chosen for the patrons of that ship, by the pagan owners of it.
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Acts 28:11
11 And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.