And when he had gone through those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece,
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Observe how we everywhere find him accomplishing all by means of preaching, not by miracles. And we, sailed, etc. The writer constantly shows him to us as hasting to get to Syria; and the reason of it was the Church, and Jerusalem, but still he restrained his desire, so as to set all right in those parts also. And yet Troas is not a large place: why then do they pass seven days in it? Perhaps it was large as regarded the number of believers. And after he had passed seven days there, on the following day he spent the night in teaching: so hard did he find it to tear himself away from them, and they from him. And when we came together it says, to break bread.
