Acts 9:11 - Exposition

To for into, A.V. , named for called, A.V.; a man of Tarsus for of Tarsus, A.V. The street ; ῥύμη , usually the narrower lanes in a town as distinguished from the πλατεῖαι , or wide streets. So Luke 14:21 , "The streets and lanes of the city," and the LXX . in Isaiah 15:3 , couple πλατεῖαι and ρύμαι . Here, however, the term applies to the principal street of the city, which runs quite straight from the east to the west gate, and is a mile long. It still exists, and is called the Sultany Street; but instead of being the wide and splendid street it was in the apostolic age, a hundred feet wide, with colonnades separating the two footways on the side from the central read, and adorned with a triumphal arch, it is contracted into a narrow mean passage.