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melita

melita


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Melita 
  (Acts  27:28),  an  island  in  the  Mediterranean,  the  modern  Malta. 
  Here  the  ship  in  which  Paul  was  being  conveyed  a  prisoner  to 
  Rome  was  wrecked.  The  bay  in  which  it  was  wrecked  now  bears  the 
  name  of  "St.  Paul's  Bay",  "a  certain  creek  with  a  shore."  It  is 
  about  2  miles  deep  and  1  broad,  and  the  whole  physical  condition 
  of  the  scene  answers  the  description  of  the  shipwreck  given  in 
  Acts  28.  It  was  originally  colonized  by  Phoenicians 
  ("barbarians,"  28:2).  It  came  into  the  possession  of  the  Greeks 
  (B.C.  736),  from  whom  it  was  taken  by  the  Carthaginians  (B.C. 
  528).  In  B.C.  242  it  was  conquered  by  the  Romans,  and  was 
  governed  by  a  Roman  propraetor  at  the  time  of  the  shipwreck 
  (Acts  28:7).  Since  1800,  when  the  French  garrison  surrendered  to 
  the  English  force,  it  has  been  a  British  dependency.  The  island 
  is  about  17  miles  long  and  9  wide,  and  about  60  in 
  circumference.  After  a  stay  of  three  months  on  this  island, 
  during  which  the  barbarians"  showed  them  no  little  kindness, 
  Julius  procured  for  himself  and  his  company  a  passage  in  another 
  Alexandrian  corn-ship  which  had  wintered  in  the  island,  in  which 
  they  proceeded  on  their  voyage  to  Rome  (Acts  28:13,  14). 
 
 
  From  Hitchcock's  Bible  Names  Dictionary  (late  1800's)  [hitchcock]: 
 
  Melita,  affording  honey