When the fourteenth night had come, as we were being driven across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were nearing land. So they took a sounding and found twenty fathoms. A little farther on they took a sounding again and found fifteen fathoms. And fearing that we might run on the rocks, they let down four anchors from the stern and prayed for day to come. And as the sailors were seeking to escape from the ship, and had lowered the ship's boat into the sea under pretense of laying out anchors from the bow, Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.” Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the ship's boat and let it go. As day was about to dawn, Paul urged them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have continued in suspense and without food, having taken nothing. Therefore I urge you to take some food. For it will give you strength, for not a hair is to perish from the head of any of you.” And when he had said these things, he took bread, and giving thanks to God in the presence of all he broke it and began to eat. Then they all were encouraged and ate some food themselves. (We were in all 276 persons in the ship.) And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.
the Adriatic Sea - "In this period the Adriatic Sea was a name applied to the Mediterranean E of Sicily, and not merely to the present Adriatic Sea." (Ryrie)
fifteen fathoms - "A fathom is about six ft." (Ryrie)
"It is a remarkable fact that, in the case of a ship drifting from Cauda to St. Paul's Bay in Malta (the supposed scene of the shipwreck), it would pass near the rocky point of Koura at the east corner of that Bay, after which the charts shew soundings of twenty and fifteen fathoms in succession, exactly as here described. It must have been the breakers on Koura which the sailors heard." (Walker)
"And now, on the fourteenth night of this raging tempest, the practiced senses of the seamen, discerned that 'some country was approaching, either by the sound of breakers on the shore, or a glimpse, now and then, of their phosphorescent whiteness." (Stam)
under pretense of laying out anchors from the bow - "These sailors thought their chances of surviving were better if they could get away from the passenger (276 in all, v. 37)." (Ryrie)
Paul urged them all to take some food - "Imagine, then, the reaction as Paul began to urge them to pause to eat, reasoning: 'This is for your deliverance,' and assuring them confidently: 'There shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you' (Ver. 34). And imagine the effect as he then proceeded to show his confidence in the truth of his declaration by taking bread, giving thanks to God for it in the presence of all then beginning to eat it." (Stam)
We were in all 276 persons in the ship - "It is here that Luke records the number of those aboard. Perhaps this is because it was most natural to count them under such circumstances, but the Holy Spirit doubtless led him to do this at this point so as to impress upon us the wonder of the scene: two hundred seventy-five men, having come to the end of their own resources, now cheerful and ready to face grace dangers calmly, under the divinely-appointed leadership of one faithful and fearless man of God. Oh, that the Church would come to the end of herself; to the end of her efforts to save the organization, now being tossed to and fro and foundering in a stormy sea! Oh, that she would heed the instructions of Paul, her God-appointed leader! (Rom 11:13; 1 Cor 3:10). How united and ready she would be to face the opposition of the adversary! (See Phil. 1:27-28)." (Stam)
throwing out the wheat into the sea - "The purpose of lightening the ship was to raise her in the water and let her run as close to the beach as possible before grounding." (Ryrie)
the Adriatic Sea - "In this period the Adriatic Sea was a name applied to the Mediterranean E of Sicily, and not merely to the present Adriatic Sea." (Ryrie)
fifteen fathoms - "A fathom is about six ft." (Ryrie)
"It is a remarkable fact that, in the case of a ship drifting from Cauda to St. Paul's Bay in Malta (the supposed scene of the shipwreck), it would pass near the rocky point of Koura at the east corner of that Bay, after which the charts shew soundings of twenty and fifteen fathoms in succession, exactly as here described. It must have been the breakers on Koura which the sailors heard." (Walker)
"And now, on the fourteenth night of this raging tempest, the practiced senses of the seamen, discerned that 'some country was approaching, either by the sound of breakers on the shore, or a glimpse, now and then, of their phosphorescent whiteness." (Stam)
under pretense of laying out anchors from the bow - "These sailors thought their chances of surviving were better if they could get away from the passenger (276 in all, v. 37)." (Ryrie)
Paul urged them all to take some food - "Imagine, then, the reaction as Paul began to urge them to pause to eat, reasoning: 'This is for your deliverance,' and assuring them confidently: 'There shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you' (Ver. 34). And imagine the effect as he then proceeded to show his confidence in the truth of his declaration by taking bread, giving thanks to God for it in the presence of all then beginning to eat it." (Stam)
We were in all 276 persons in the ship - "It is here that Luke records the number of those aboard. Perhaps this is because it was most natural to count them under such circumstances, but the Holy Spirit doubtless led him to do this at this point so as to impress upon us the wonder of the scene: two hundred seventy-five men, having come to the end of their own resources, now cheerful and ready to face grace dangers calmly, under the divinely-appointed leadership of one faithful and fearless man of God. Oh, that the Church would come to the end of herself; to the end of her efforts to save the organization, now being tossed to and fro and foundering in a stormy sea! Oh, that she would heed the instructions of Paul, her God-appointed leader! (Rom 11:13; 1 Cor 3:10). How united and ready she would be to face the opposition of the adversary! (See Phil. 1:27-28)." (Stam)
throwing out the wheat into the sea - "The purpose of lightening the ship was to raise her in the water and let her run as close to the beach as possible before grounding." (Ryrie)
No comments:
Post a Comment