And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
Paul was a planet, not a fixed star, and God had work for him even on this remote island. Though the shipwreck seemed an ill wind, it blew good to Malta. Providence continued its care when they reached shore; every kindness shown them came from God's hand, who makes strangers friends in their deepest need.
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Commenting on Acts 28:1-10
And the barbarous people showed us no little kindness,.... The inhabitants of this island are called barbarians, not from the country of Barbary, near to which they were; nor so much on account of their manners, for, though Heathens, they were a civil and cultivated people, being, as appears from the name of the chief man of the island, under the Roman government; but because...
Verse 2. And the barbarous people. . The Greeks regarded all as barbarians who did not speak their language; and applied the name to all other nations but their own. It does not denote, as it does sometimes with us, people of savage, uncultivated, and cruel habits, but simply those whose speech was unintelligible. See .