[18] Compare Acts xvi. 3; and Gal. ii. 3, 4.
[19] Acts xvii. 7. Comp. Acts vi. 11.
[20] Comp. St. Mark xiv. 58; and St. Luke xxiii. 2.
[21] Both Philippi and Thessalonica eventually became the seats of flourishing Christian Churches, to whom St. Paul wrote Epistles.
[22] Acts xvii. 16-33.
[23] There are some reasons for thinking that men of cultivated minds and high social position were preferred for Bishops in the early as well as in later ages of the Church.
[24] Acts xix. 1-20.
[25] Acts xx. 17-35.
[26] Acts xix. 21.
[27] Acts xx. 23; xxi. 11.