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Trogyllium
Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament
or (Τρωγύλλιον, WH [Note: H Westcott-Hort’s Greek Testament.] Τρωγύλιον)
Trogyllium was a promontory formed by the western termination of Mt. Mycale, on the coast of Asia Minor, about equidistant from Ephesus and Miletus. It runs out into the sea just opposite the island of Samos, from which it is separated by a channel less than a mile wide (Strabo, XIV. i. 12, 13). Its present name is Santa Maria. According to the Textus Receptus of Acts 20:15, St. Paul’s ship, after leaving its anchorage at Chios, struck across to Samos, and, having tarried at Trogyllium, came the following day to Miletus. This in itself is likely to have happened, and, though the words καὶ μείναντες ἐν Τρωγυλλίῳ are omitted by the great Manuscripts (א ABCE), they are retained by Meyer, Alford, Blass, and Ramsay on the strength of DHLP and many ancient versions. The reason for their omission may have been either the mistaken idea in the mind of the copyists that the text located Trogyllium in Samos, or the difficulty of imagining two night-stoppages, one in the harbour of Samos and another at Trogyllium, which is only 4 or 5 miles from Samos. But a night spent at Samos is quite imaginary, for the nautical term παρεβάλομεν does not mean ‘arrived at’ (Authorized Version ) or ‘touched at’ (Revised Version ). All that it implies is a crossing from one point to another; and, while Samos was merely sighted and passed, Trogyllium was the resting-place. An anchorage just to the east of the extreme point of Trogyllium now bears the name of ‘St. Paul’s Port’ (W. J. Conybeare and J. S. Howson, The Life and Epistles of St. Paul, London, 1877, ii. 264 n. [Note: . note.] ).
James Strahan.
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Trogyllium'. Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdn/t/trogyllium.html. 1906-1918.
