they all escaped to land; and when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita." Then the centurion had to stay three months at Melita (or Malta) before he could get another ship to venture out to sea to carry his prisoners on to Rome.
Saint Paul and his friends left Jerusalem for this journey in September and reached Rome some time the next summer. It took all of six months of peril and suffering and exposure to accomplish this journey.
If Saint Paul and his friends were at Jerusalem now and wanted to go to Rome, with the railroad from Jerusalem to Joppa in operation, our own government or any one of the great powers of Europe could send them a ship that would land them safe in Rome three days after they started from Jerusalem.
In the second Psalm it is said: "Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost part of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."
