Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 4:36

36 And Joses , who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation) a Levite, and of the countrey of Cyprus ,

Some read Ioseph; the Hebrew names when turned into Greek, meet with divers terminations or endings.

Full of Consolation; not onely in that he gave so liberally towards the relief of the poor, parting with his possessions for them; but that he excelled in propounding inward and Spiritual comfort unto poor and rich; being of a mild disposition, and fitted to handle gently such wounds as the terrors of the Law had made.

Tho a Levite, he might have Land, either in right of his Wife, or given to him and his Ancestors; as we read was to Phineas, Iosh. 24. ult. otherwise the Lord was the Levites portion in an especially manner.

The Iews being dispersed all over the known World; some dwelt in Cyprus, as Ioses's parents, Sauls's parents dwelt at Tarsus, tho at this time both Saul and Ioses dwell in Ierusalem.