Teks -- Acts 16:8 (NET)

16:8 so they passed through Mysia and went down to Troas.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Robertson: Act 16:8 - Passing by Mysia

Passing by Mysia ( parelthontes tēn Musian ).

Literally, passing alongside or skirting Mysia, neglecting it without preaching there. Strictly they passed through part of it to reach Troas.

Robertson: Act 16:8 - To Troas

To Troas ( eis Troiada ).

This city, named Alexandria Troas after Alexander the Great, was the seaport of Mysia, though a Roman colony and not counted as part of either Asia or Bithynia. New Ilium, on the site of the old Troy, was four miles farther north. It was the place to take ship for Philippi. Twice again Paul will be here (2Co 2:12; Act 20:6).

Vincent: Act 16:8 - Passing by Mysia

Passing by Mysia

Not avoiding, since they could not reach Troas without traversing it; but omitting it as a preaching-place.

Vincent: Act 16:8 - Came down

Came down

From the highlands to the coast.

JFB: Act 16:6-8 - Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia

Proceeding in a northwesterly direction. At this time must have been formed "the churches of Galatia" (Gal 1:2; 1Co 16:1); founded, as we learn from the Epistle to the Galatians (particularly Gal 4:19), by the apostle Paul, and which were already in existence when he was on his third missionary journey, as we learn from Act 18:23, where it appears that he was no less successful in Phrygia. Why these proceedings, so interesting as we should suppose, are not here detailed, it is not easy to say; for the various reasons suggested are not very satisfactory: for example, that the historian had not joined the party [ALFORD]; that he was in haste to bring the apostle to Europe [OLSHAUSEN]; that the main stream of the Church's development was from Jerusalem to Rome, and the apostle's labors in Phrygia and Galatia lay quite out of the line of that direction [BAUMGARTEN].

JFB: Act 16:6-8 - and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost

Speaking by some prophet, see on Act 11:27.

JFB: Act 16:6-8 - to preach the word in Asia

Not the great Asiatic continent, nor even the rich peninsula now called Asia Minor, but only so much of its western coast as constituted the Roman province of Asia.

JFB: Act 16:8 - came down to Troas

A city on the northeast coast of the Ægean Sea, the boundary of Asia Minor on the west; the region of which was the scene of the great Trojan war.

Clarke: Act 16:8 - Came down to Troas

Came down to Troas - The Troad, or part of Phrygia Minor in which the celebrated city of Troy was formerly situated. This city was first built by Dardanus, who was its king, and from whom it was called Dardania; from Tros, his grandson, it was called Troja, or Troy; and from his son, Ilus, it was called Ilium. It has been long so completely destroyed that no ascertainable vestige of it remains; insomuch that some have even doubted of its existence. Those who contend for the reality of the history of Troy suppose it to have stood on the site of the modern village Bounarbachi, about twelve miles from the sea, on an eminence, at the termination of a spacious plain.

TSK: Act 16:8 - Troas

Troas : Act 16:11, Act 20:5; 2Co 2:12; 2Ti 4:13

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Act 16:8

Either the relics of the famous city of Troy, or the country thereabouts, in which the city of Antigonia was built.

Gill: Act 16:8 - And they passed by Mysia // came down to Troas

And they passed by Mysia,.... Without stopping or staying there, though they came to it:

came down to Troas; either the country of Troas, as the Syriac version renders it; which, according to Solinus ^m, is bordered on the north part of Galatia, and was near to Lycaonia, Pisidia, and Mygdonia on the south, and to Lydia on the east, and to Mysia and Caria on the north: or rather the city of Troas, which Pliny says ⁿ, was formerly called Antigonia, now Alexandria, a colony of the Romans. Antigonus king of Asia called it Troas at first, because it was in the country, and near where Troy stood, but afterwards he called it, according to his own name, Antigonia; but Lysimachus king of Thrace having got this city into his hands, repaired it, and called it after the name of Alexander, Alexandria; and to distinguish it from Alexandria in Egypt, and other cities of the same name in other places, it was called Alexandria Troas.