When did Paul travel between Troas and Assos?
CONYBEARE and Howson (“Life and Epistles of Paul,” Vol. ii, p. 209), say it was on Sunday. For this walk, they say, “there may have been other reasons, . . . but the desire for solitude was doubtless one. The discomfort of a crowded ship is unfavorable for devotion; and prayer and meditation are necessary for maintaining the religious life even of an apostle. That Saviour to whose service he was devoted, had often prayed in solitude on the mountain, and crossed the brook Kedron to kneel under the olives of Gethsemane. And strength and peace were surely sought and obtained by the apostle from the Redeemer as he pursued his lonely road that Sunday afternoon in spring, among the oak woods and the streams of Ida.” “The labors of the early days of the week that was spent at Troas are not related to us; but concerning the last day we have a narrative which enters into details with all the minuteness of one of the gospel histories. It was the evening which succeeded the Jewish Sabbath. On the Sunday morning the vessel was about to sail.”—p. 206.