And we went ahead to the ship, and sailed unto Assos, there intending to take aboard Paul: for so had he appointed, intending himself to go on foot.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Wherefore does the writer say where they came, and where they went to? To show in the first place that he was making the voyage more leisurely— and this upon human grounds— and sailing past (some): also (for the same reason he tells) where he made a stay, and what parts he sailed past; (namely,) that he might not have to spend the time in Asia.
