Emphasis Preaching Journal

Who was the man from Macedonia urging Paul to travel to Philippi instead of the Roman province of Bithynia? Scholars are divided: some say it was Luke who wrote our passage; others speculate it was Alexander the Great, appearing in a dream. After all, these critics assert, the full name of Troas was Alexandrian Troas, named after the great conqueror of East and West. Perhaps Paul, the great spiritual conqueror and cavalier of Christ, decided that, as Alexander had conquered through the sword, he would conquer the world through the Gospel of Christ.