THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES - Chapter 21 - Verse 15

Verse 15. After those days. After what had occurred, as related in the previous verses.

We took up our carriages. This is a most unhappy translation. The word carriage we apply now exclusively to a vehicle for conveying anything—as a coach, chariot, gig, cannon-carriage, etc. The original word means simply, that they prepared themselves; made themselves ready; put their baggage in order, etc. aposkeuasamenoi. They prepared for the journey. The English word carriage was formerly used in the sense of that which is carried —baggage, burden, vessels, furniture, etc. Thus it was used in the time that our translation was made; and in this sense it is to be understood in 1 Sa 17:22, "And David left his carriage (baggage) in the hand of the keeper of the carriage," etc. See Ac 21:20, margin. Isa 10:28, "At Michmash he hath laid up his carriages," [his baggage, etc.]

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