Now when the south wind blew gently, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close to the shore. But soon a tempestuous wind, called the northeaster, struck down from the land. And when the ship was caught and could not face the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along. Running under the lee of a small island called Cauda, we managed with difficulty to secure the ship's boat. After hoisting it up, they used supports to undergird the ship. Then, fearing that they would run aground on the Syrtis, they lowered the gear, and thus they were driven along. Since we were violently storm-tossed, they began the next day to jettison the cargo. And on the third day they threw the ship's tackle overboard with their own hands. When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned. Since they had been without food for a long time, Paul stood up among them and said, “Men, you should have listened to me and not have set sail from Crete and incurred this injury and loss. Yet now I urge you to take heart, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship. For this very night there stood before me an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I worship, and he said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. And behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’ So take heart, men, for I have faith in God that it will be exactly as I have been told. But we must run aground on some island.”
used supports to undergird - "Some sort of rope truss to keep the beams from separating." (Ryrie)
"A verb [undergirding] found only here. The process in question is called 'frapping' by sailors, stout ropes being passed under the vessel transversely to prevent the timbers from starting apart." (Walker)
the Syrtis - "There were two formidable quicksands of this name, the dread of sailors, Syrtis Major, on the north coast of Africa, the one off the shores of Tripoli, and the other off Tunis more to the west. It is the former, Syrtis Major, which is intended here. The east-north-east wind would drive them straight on to it, in the direction which they had been following from Crete to Cauda." (Walker)
lowered the gear - "The verb 'lower' occurs again in v. 30, and is used also in 9:25. That translated 'gear' is the same as 'vessel' in 10:11, and is very general in meaning. One explanation of the phrase is that they now lowered the great main-sail, which they had not been able to reef and set before because of the rough weather. With that still set, the wind would drive them rapidly on to the quicksands. It may, however, include or indicate the lowering of the heavy yard-arm and other gear from aloft, with everything else possible except a small storm-sail necessary to enable them to keep the ship's head to the wind and to alter her tack. under such circumstances, sailors would bring the head of vessel as near to the wind as possible and adjust, as above indicated, a small sail to steady her. She would then be driven leeward, and, with a strong east-north-east wind blowing, would drift west by north, the average rate of drift being about a mile and a half per hour." (Walker)
God has granted you all those who sail with you - "... there is a striking spiritual and dispensational analogy. In the present dispensation, all those who sail with Paul, and only those, are saved and safe. Ill-taught preachers may mix law and grace, prophecy and the mystery, the kingdom and the Body, but their hearers are saved only as they hear and receive the Pauline revelation regarding the finished work of Christ and salvation by grace through faith alone. Indeed the hearers, by erroneous association, may read these truths into passages which do not actually teach them, but the fact remains that they are saved through these truths of the glorious revelation committed to Paul." (Stam)
used supports to undergird - "Some sort of rope truss to keep the beams from separating." (Ryrie)
"A verb [undergirding] found only here. The process in question is called 'frapping' by sailors, stout ropes being passed under the vessel transversely to prevent the timbers from starting apart." (Walker)
the Syrtis - "There were two formidable quicksands of this name, the dread of sailors, Syrtis Major, on the north coast of Africa, the one off the shores of Tripoli, and the other off Tunis more to the west. It is the former, Syrtis Major, which is intended here. The east-north-east wind would drive them straight on to it, in the direction which they had been following from Crete to Cauda." (Walker)
lowered the gear - "The verb 'lower' occurs again in v. 30, and is used also in 9:25. That translated 'gear' is the same as 'vessel' in 10:11, and is very general in meaning. One explanation of the phrase is that they now lowered the great main-sail, which they had not been able to reef and set before because of the rough weather. With that still set, the wind would drive them rapidly on to the quicksands. It may, however, include or indicate the lowering of the heavy yard-arm and other gear from aloft, with everything else possible except a small storm-sail necessary to enable them to keep the ship's head to the wind and to alter her tack. under such circumstances, sailors would bring the head of vessel as near to the wind as possible and adjust, as above indicated, a small sail to steady her. She would then be driven leeward, and, with a strong east-north-east wind blowing, would drift west by north, the average rate of drift being about a mile and a half per hour." (Walker)
God has granted you all those who sail with you - "... there is a striking spiritual and dispensational analogy. In the present dispensation, all those who sail with Paul, and only those, are saved and safe. Ill-taught preachers may mix law and grace, prophecy and the mystery, the kingdom and the Body, but their hearers are saved only as they hear and receive the Pauline revelation regarding the finished work of Christ and salvation by grace through faith alone. Indeed the hearers, by erroneous association, may read these truths into passages which do not actually teach them, but the fact remains that they are saved through these truths of the glorious revelation committed to Paul." (Stam)
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