Paul’s Journey to Rome

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 22, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 41.

Paul’s Journey to Rome

In chapter 20 we have the wonderfully instructive record of Paul's visits to Troas and Miletus. In verses 7 to 11 is recorded an evening meeting on the first day. But there is in it no foundation or support for first-day observance, and the farewell words of the apostle to the elders of Ephesus lend naught to the claim. See verses 20, 27. The remainder of our week's readings, with the exception of Psalm 111, has to do with Paul's journey to Rome. It is of interest in showing God's way of overruling the plans of men against His cause to His own glory. Satan thought to hinder and bind God's work by the imprisonment or destruction of the apostle, but God used it all to the furtherance of His work.