“And finding a ship sailing over unto Phenicia, we went aboard, and set forth.”
And having found a ship crossing to Phoenicia, we went aboard and set sail — the logistics of ancient travel frame a larger theological movement: Paul, like Jesus before him, deliberately travels toward his suffering. The ship that carries him forward is merely the instrument of divine providence.
Church Fathers on Acts 21:2
and had launched, we came with a straight course unto Coos, and the day following unto Rhodes, and from thence unto Patara: and finding a ship sailing over unto Phenicia, we went aboard, and set forth. Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre Acts 21:1-3: he came to Lycia, and having left Cyprus, he sailed down to Tyre—
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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