ἐγένετο δέ, and it was so, that, &c. The words do not mean as might be thought from A.V. ‘and it came to pass, that,’ &c., that the father of Publius fell ill after St Paul’s arrival, but that he was ill before.

πυρετοῖς καὶ δυσεντερίῳ, of fever and dysentery. The words are technical, such as a physician, as St Luke is reputed to have been, would be likely to use in describing the disease. πυρετοί, in the plural number, implies the fits of fever which occur at intervals in such diseases as ague.

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