Acts 28:1-31 - Corps Notes - January 27, 1977
Acts 28:1-31 January 27, 1977 It is really significant that he writes in Acts 1:1-2: The former treatise [meaning the Gospel of Luke] have I made, O Theophilus [beloved of God], of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, Until the day in which he was taken up [which is the ascension], after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: I believe that not only those commandments included going back to Jerusalem, but I believe they included perhaps many of the things that are recorded in the Book of Acts that we have studied and worked very minutely. Jesus in his teaching, if you’ve studied the gospels, is very sharp; he gives one line and he doesn’t always explain it. He just tells the truth and then goes on to something else. Those apostles and the rest, who were spiritually wise enough to see it, were tremendously blessed. Students have asked me at times, “Should I take Classical Greek in order to be able to do Greek in the New Testament.” I hardly ever answer it. I usually say, “Well, that’s up to you.” But when I’m real honest with myself; Classical Greek is nice but it’s totally unnecessary if you really want to handle the Word and yet I’m grateful that Walter Cummins had it. It broadened him. I’m grateful that a man learns anything that he does well. That will broaden him, to be able to receive God’s Word. So I’m real grateful that Walter had a lot of this training. All together there are 97,921 words that are used in Classical Greek. One of the conjugations has 1,000 varieties in it of one word. God’s men; I’m not speaking of the original men who received the revelation. I’m speaking of the men of God and I think the men who translated from Estrangelo Aramaic into Greek were real men of God; real dedicated men. God’s men, in the New Testament translation, used 5,857 Greek words. That’s all. In other words; there are 92,064 Greek words that are never used in the New Testament. So, they used 1 Greek word out of 16
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three days? verse 7 He lodged them three days, and then they stayed on that island. 454 Acts 28:11 “ship of Alexandria” - he had started on a ship of Alexandria in Caesarea; a grain ship. This is also a grain ship but this ship had wintered in the island there at Malta. The time here had to be late February or early March. Late February would be the earliest that this grain ship would leave the harbor. “Castor and Pollux” - are the twin sons of Zeus. In verse 13 it talks about this “Rhegium.” Coins that have been found in the Rhegium in excavation have had Castor and Pollux on them, the twins that Zeus fathered. This was the ship’s logo. It is interesting that these two, Castor and Pollux, are two major stars in the Gemini constellation to this day in the astronomy field. When they named some of the stars in the constellations they had to get it from the astrology field. Acts 28:12 “Syra