And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.
Ver. 3. And there abode three] Gr. ποιησας, "Was doing there," he was in continual action. Life consists in action; so doth spiritual life, Isaiah 38:16. And by this reason one may live more in a month than another in many years. In this sense Seneca saith (Epist. lxvii.), Quamvis vitae paucos fecerimus dies. See the same word used thus,Matthew 20:12 .