Titus 3:12

Ver. 12. When I shall send Artemas to thee, or Tychicus, make haste to come to me at Nicopolis. Artemas is nowhere else mentioned; but Tychicus is described at Colossians 4:7 as “a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellow-servant in the Lord; “and very nearly the same expressions are employed respecting him at Ephesians 6:21. He was an Asiatic (Acts 20:4), but we want materials for a closer determination. The Nicopolis at which St. Paul intended to pass the winter is uncertain. Three towns of that name are well known to have existed at the time, within the sphere of the apostle's labours: one in Cilicia, another in Thrace, and a third in Epirus. Each of these has been fixed on by different commentators as the one probably meant in the passage before us; but it is impossible to adduce anything of a decisive nature in favour of either. If the epistle was written from Macedonia or some part of Greece, then it would likely be Nicopolis in Epirus, which was by much the more important of the two in that quarter; but if from some place in Asia Minor, then Nicopolis in Cilicia should rather be understood. But whichever it might be, when the apostle states his intention to spend the winter there (ἐκεῖ), it is clear he was not at Nicopolis when he wrote the epistle.