Chapter 27
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when Acts 19:21, Acts 23:11, Acts 25:12, Acts 25:25; Gen 50:20; Ps 33:11, Ps 76:10; Prov 19:21; Lam 3:27; Dan 4:35; Rom 15:22-29
Italy Italy is a well-known country of Europe, bounded by the Adriatic or Venetian Gulf on the east, the Tyrrhene or Tuscan Sea on the west, and by the Alps on the north. Acts 10:1, Acts 18:2; Heb 13:24
a centurion Acts 27:11, Acts 27:43, Acts 10:22, Acts 21:32, Acts 22:26, Acts 23:17, Acts 24:23, Acts 28:16; Matt 8:5-10, Matt 27:54; Luke 7:2, Luke 23:47
Augustus' Acts 25:25
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Adramyttium Adramyttium, now Adramyti, was a maritime city of Mysia in Asia Minor, seated at the foot of Mount Ida, on a gulf of the same name, opposite the island of Lesbos.
we Acts 21:1; Luke 8:22
to sail Acts 20:15-16, Acts 21:1-3
Aristarchus Acts 19:19, Acts 20:4; Col 4:10; Phlm 1:24
with us Acts 16:10-13, Acts 16:17, Acts 20:5, Acts 21:5, Acts 28:2, Acts 28:10, Acts 28:12, Acts 28:16
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Sidon Acts 12:20; Gen 10:15, Gen 49:13; Isa 23:2-4, Isa 23:12; Zech 9:2
Julius Acts 24:23, Acts 27:1, Acts 27:3, Acts 28:16
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Cyprus Acts 4:36, Acts 11:19-20, Acts 13:4, Acts 15:39, Acts 21:3, Acts 21:16
the winds Matt 14:24; Mark 6:48
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Cilicia Acts 6:9, Acts 15:23, Acts 15:41, Acts 21:39, Acts 22:3; Gal 1:21
Pamphylia Acts 2:10, Acts 13:13, Acts 15:38
Myra Myra was a city of Lycia, situated on a hill, twenty stadia from the sea.
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the centurion Acts 27:1
Alexandria Alexandria, now Scanderoon, was a celebrated city and port of Egypt, built by Alexander the Great, situated on the Mediterranean and the lake Moeris, opposite the island of Pharos, and about twelve miles from the western branch of the Nile. Acts 6:9, Acts 18:24, Acts 28:11
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Cnidus Cnidus was a town and promontory of Caria in Asia Minor, opposite Crete, now Cape Krio.
we sailed Acts 27:12-13, Acts 27:21, Acts 2:11; Titus 1:5, Titus 1:12
under Acts 27:4
Crete or, Candy, Crete, now Candy, is a large island in the Mediterranean, 250 miles in length, 50 in breadth, and 600 in circumference, lying at the entrance of the Aegean sea.
Salmone Salmone, now Salamina, was a city and cape on the east of the island of Crete.
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The fair havens The Fair Havens, still known by the same name, was a port on the south-eastern part of Crete, near Lasea, of which nothing now remains. Acts 27:8
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the fast "The fast was on the tenth day of the seventh month." Lev 16:29, Lev 23:27-29; Num 29:7
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I perceive Acts 27:21-26, Acts 27:31, Acts 27:34; Gen 41:16-25, Gen 41:38-39; 2Kgs 6:9-10; Ps 25:14; Dan 2:30; Amos 3:7
damage or, injury, Acts 27:20, Acts 27:41-44; 1Pet 4:18
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believed Acts 27:21; Exod 9:20-21; 2Kgs 6:10; Prov 27:12; Ezek 3:17-18, Ezek 33:4; Heb 11:7
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the haven Acts 27:8; Ps 107:30
Phenice Phenice, was a sea-port on the western side of Crete; probably defended from the fury of the winds by a high and winding shore, forming a semicircle, and perhaps by some small island in front; leaving two openings, one towards the south-west, and the other towards the north-west.
Crete Acts 27:7
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the south Job 37:17; Ps 78:26; Song 4:16; Luke 12:55
loosing Acts 27:21
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not Exod 14:21-27; Jonah 1:3-5
arose or beat
a tempestuous Ps 107:25-27; Ezek 27:26; Matt 8:24; Mark 4:37
Euroclydon Probably, as Dr. Shaw supposes, one of those tempestuous winds called levanters, which blow in all directions, from ne round by e to se
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we Acts 27:27; Jas 3:4
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Clauda Clauda, called Cauda and Gaudos by Mela and Pliny, and Claudos by Ptolemy, and now Gozo, according to Dr. Shaw, is a small island, situated at the south-western extremity of the island of Crete. Acts 27:16
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fearing Acts 27:29, Acts 27:41
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being Ps 107:27
the next Acts 27:19, Acts 27:38; Jonah 1:5; Matt 16:26; Luke 16:8; Phil 3:7-8; Heb 12:1
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we Job 2:4; Jonah 1:5; Mark 8:35-37; Luke 9:24-25
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neither Exod 10:21-23; Ps 105:28; Matt 24:29
and no Ps 107:25-27; Jonah 1:4, Jonah 1:11-14; Matt 8:24-25; 2Cor 11:25
all Isa 57:10; Jer 2:25; Ezek 37:11; Eph 2:12; 1Thess 4:13
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after Acts 27:33-35; Ps 107:5-6
ye should Acts 27:9-10; Gen 42:22
not Acts 27:13
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I exhort Acts 27:25, Acts 27:36, Acts 23:11; 1Sam 30:6; Ezra 10:2; Job 22:29-30; Ps 112:7; Isa 43:1-2; 2Cor 1:4-6, 2Cor 4:8-9
for Acts 27:31, Acts 27:34, Acts 27:44; Job 2:4
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there Acts 5:19, Acts 12:8-11, Acts 12:23, Acts 23:11; Dan 6:22; Heb 1:14; Rev 22:16
whose Exod 19:5; Deut 32:9; Ps 135:4; Song 2:16, Song 6:3; Isa 44:5; Jer 31:33, Jer 32:38; Ezek 36:38; Zech 13:9; Mal 3:17; John 17:9-10; 1Cor 6:20; Titus 2:14; 1Pet 2:9-10
and Acts 16:17; Ps 116:16, Ps 143:12; Isa 44:21; Dan 3:17, Dan 3:26, Dan 3:28, Dan 6:16, Dan 6:20; John 12:26; Rom 1:1, Rom 1:9, Rom 6:22; 2Tim 1:3, 2Tim 2:24; Titus 1:1
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Fear not Acts 18:9-10; Gen 15:1, Gen 46:3; 1Kgs 17:13; 2Kgs 6:16; Isa 41:10-14, Isa 43:1-5; Matt 10:28; Rev 1:17
thou Acts 9:15, Acts 19:21, Acts 23:11, Acts 25:11; Matt 10:18; John 11:9; 2Tim 4:16-17; Rev 11:5-7
lo Acts 27:37; Gen 12:2, Gen 18:23-32, Gen 19:21-22, Gen 19:29, Gen 30:27, Gen 39:5, Gen 39:23; Isa 58:11-12; Mic 5:7; Jas 5:16
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I believe Acts 27:11, Acts 27:21; Num 23:19; 2Chr 20:20; Luke 1:45; Rom 4:20-21; 2Tim 1:12
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a certain Acts 28:1
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the fourteenth Acts 27:18-20
Adria Adria strictly speaking, was the name of the Adriatic gulf, now the Gulf of Venice, an arm of the Mediterranean, about 400 miles long and 140 broad, stretching along the eastern shores of Italy on one side, and Dalmatia, Sclavonia, and Macedonia on the other. But the term Adria was extended far beyond the limits of this gulf, and appears to have been given to an indeterminate extent of sea, as we say, generally, the Levant. It is observable, that the sacred historian does not say "in the Adriatic gulf," but "in Adria," (that is, the Adriatic sea, πελαγος G99 being understood); which, says Hesychius, was the same as the Ionian sea; and Strabo says that the Ionian gulf "is a part of that now called the Adriatic." But not only the Ionian, but even the Sicilian sea, and part of that which washes Crete, were called the Adriatic. Thus the scholiast on Dionysius Periegetis says, "they call this Sicilian sea Adria." And Ptolemy says that Sicily was bounded on the east by the Adriatic, υπο G5259, Αδριοι G99, and that Crete was bounded on the west by the Adriatic sea, υπο G5259, του G5120, Αδριατικον πελαγος G3989.
the shipmen Acts 27:30; 1Kgs 9:27; Jonah 1:6; Rev 18:17
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fallen Acts 27:17, Acts 27:41
anchors Acts 27:30, Acts 27:40; Heb 6:19
and wished Deut 28:67; Ps 130:6
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the boat Acts 27:16, Acts 27:32
foreship Acts 27:41
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said Acts 27:11, Acts 27:21, Acts 27:42-43
Except Acts 27:22-24; Ps 91:11-12; Jer 29:11-13; Ezek 36:36-37; Luke 1:34-35, Luke 4:9-12; John 6:37; 2Thess 2:13-14
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Luke 16:8; Phil 3:7-9
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while Acts 27:29
This Acts 27:27
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for this Matt 15:32; Mark 8:2-3; Phil 2:5; 1Tim 5:23
for there 1Kgs 1:52; Matt 10:30; Luke 12:7, Luke 21:18
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and gave Acts 2:46-47; 1Sam 9:13; Matt 15:36; Mark 8:6; Luke 24:30; John 6:11, John 6:23; Rom 14:6; 1Cor 10:30-31; 1Tim 4:3-4
in Ps 119:46; Rom 1:16; 2Tim 1:8, 2Tim 1:12; 1Pet 4:16
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they all Ps 27:14; 2Cor 1:4-6
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two Acts 27:24
souls Acts 2:41, Acts 7:14; Rom 13:1; 1Pet 3:20
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they lightened Acts 27:18-19; Job 2:4; Jonah 1:5; Matt 6:25, Matt 16:26; Heb 12:1
The wheat The Romans imported corn from Egypt, by way of Alexandria, to which this ship belonged; for a curious account of which see Bryant's treatise on the Euroclydon.
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taken up etc. or, cut the anchors, they left them in the sea, etc. Acts 27:29-30
the rudder bands Or, "the bands of the rudders;" for large vessels in ancient times had two or more rudders, which were fastened to the ship by means of bands, or chains, by which they were hoisted out of the water when incapable of being used. These bands being loosed, the rudders would fall into their proper places, and serve to steer the vessel into the creek, which they had in view, and hoisted. Isa 33:23
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they ran Acts 27:17, Acts 27:26-29; 2Cor 11:25
broken 1Kgs 22:48; 2Chr 20:37; Ezek 27:26, Ezek 27:34; 2Cor 11:25-26
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Ps 74:20; Prov 12:10; Eccl 9:3; Mark 15:15-20; Luke 23:40-41
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willing Acts 27:3, Acts 27:11, Acts 27:31, Acts 23:10, Acts 23:24; Prov 16:7; 2Cor 11:25
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that Acts 27:22, Acts 27:24; Ps 107:28-30; Amos 9:9; John 6:39-40; 2Cor 1:8-10; 1Pet 4:18
land Melita, now Malta, the island on which Paul and his companions were cast, is situate in the Mediterranean sea, about fifty miles from the coast of Sicily, towards Africa; and is one immense rock of soft white free-stone, twenty miles long, twelve in its greatest breadth, and sixty in circumference. Some, however, with the learned Jacob Bryant, are of opinion that this island was Melita in the Adriatic gulf, near Illyricum; but it may be sufficient to observe, that the course of the Alexandrian ship, first to Syracuse and then to Rhegium, proves that it was the present Malta, as the proper course from the Illyrian Melita would have been first to Rhegium, before it reached Syracuse, to which indeed it need not have gone at all.
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when Acts 19:21, Acts 23:11, Acts 25:12, Acts 25:25; Gen 50:20; Ps 33:11, Ps 76:10; Prov 19:21; Lam 3:27; Dan 4:35; Rom 15:22-29
Italy Italy is a well-known country of Europe, bounded by the Adriatic or Venetian Gulf on the east, the Tyrrhene or Tuscan Sea on the west, and by the Alps on the north. Acts 10:1, Acts 18:2; Heb 13:24
a centurion Acts 27:11, Acts 27:43, Acts 10:22, Acts 21:32, Acts 22:26, Acts 23:17, Acts 24:23, Acts 28:16; Matt 8:5-10, Matt 27:54; Luke 7:2, Luke 23:47
Augustus' Acts 25:25
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Adramyttium Adramyttium, now Adramyti, was a maritime city of Mysia in Asia Minor, seated at the foot of Mount Ida, on a gulf of the same name, opposite the island of Lesbos.
we Acts 21:1; Luke 8:22
to sail Acts 20:15-16, Acts 21:1-3
Aristarchus Acts 19:19, Acts 20:4; Col 4:10; Phlm 1:24
with us Acts 16:10-13, Acts 16:17, Acts 20:5, Acts 21:5, Acts 28:2, Acts 28:10, Acts 28:12, Acts 28:16
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Sidon Acts 12:20; Gen 10:15, Gen 49:13; Isa 23:2-4, Isa 23:12; Zech 9:2
Julius Acts 24:23, Acts 27:1, Acts 27:3, Acts 28:16
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Cyprus Acts 4:36, Acts 11:19-20, Acts 13:4, Acts 15:39, Acts 21:3, Acts 21:16
the winds Matt 14:24; Mark 6:48
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Cilicia Acts 6:9, Acts 15:23, Acts 15:41, Acts 21:39, Acts 22:3; Gal 1:21
Pamphylia Acts 2:10, Acts 13:13, Acts 15:38
Myra Myra was a city of Lycia, situated on a hill, twenty stadia from the sea.
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the centurion Acts 27:1
Alexandria Alexandria, now Scanderoon, was a celebrated city and port of Egypt, built by Alexander the Great, situated on the Mediterranean and the lake Moeris, opposite the island of Pharos, and about twelve miles from the western branch of the Nile. Acts 6:9, Acts 18:24, Acts 28:11
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Cnidus Cnidus was a town and promontory of Caria in Asia Minor, opposite Crete, now Cape Krio.
we sailed Acts 27:12-13, Acts 27:21, Acts 2:11; Titus 1:5, Titus 1:12
under Acts 27:4
Crete or, Candy, Crete, now Candy, is a large island in the Mediterranean, 250 miles in length, 50 in breadth, and 600 in circumference, lying at the entrance of the Aegean sea.
Salmone Salmone, now Salamina, was a city and cape on the east of the island of Crete.
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The fair havens The Fair Havens, still known by the same name, was a port on the south-eastern part of Crete, near Lasea, of which nothing now remains. Acts 27:8
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the fast "The fast was on the tenth day of the seventh month." Lev 16:29, Lev 23:27-29; Num 29:7
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I perceive Acts 27:21-26, Acts 27:31, Acts 27:34; Gen 41:16-25, Gen 41:38-39; 2Kgs 6:9-10; Ps 25:14; Dan 2:30; Amos 3:7
damage or, injury, Acts 27:20, Acts 27:41-44; 1Pet 4:18
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believed Acts 27:21; Exod 9:20-21; 2Kgs 6:10; Prov 27:12; Ezek 3:17-18, Ezek 33:4; Heb 11:7
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the haven Acts 27:8; Ps 107:30
Phenice Phenice, was a sea-port on the western side of Crete; probably defended from the fury of the winds by a high and winding shore, forming a semicircle, and perhaps by some small island in front; leaving two openings, one towards the south-west, and the other towards the north-west.
Crete Acts 27:7
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the south Job 37:17; Ps 78:26; Song 4:16; Luke 12:55
loosing Acts 27:21
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not Exod 14:21-27; Jonah 1:3-5
arose or beat
a tempestuous Ps 107:25-27; Ezek 27:26; Matt 8:24; Mark 4:37
Euroclydon Probably, as Dr. Shaw supposes, one of those tempestuous winds called levanters, which blow in all directions, from ne round by e to se
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we Acts 27:27; Jas 3:4
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Clauda Clauda, called Cauda and Gaudos by Mela and Pliny, and Claudos by Ptolemy, and now Gozo, according to Dr. Shaw, is a small island, situated at the south-western extremity of the island of Crete. Acts 27:16
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fearing Acts 27:29, Acts 27:41
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being Ps 107:27
the next Acts 27:19, Acts 27:38; Jonah 1:5; Matt 16:26; Luke 16:8; Phil 3:7-8; Heb 12:1
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we Job 2:4; Jonah 1:5; Mark 8:35-37; Luke 9:24-25
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neither Exod 10:21-23; Ps 105:28; Matt 24:29
and no Ps 107:25-27; Jonah 1:4, Jonah 1:11-14; Matt 8:24-25; 2Cor 11:25
all Isa 57:10; Jer 2:25; Ezek 37:11; Eph 2:12; 1Thess 4:13
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after Acts 27:33-35; Ps 107:5-6
ye should Acts 27:9-10; Gen 42:22
not Acts 27:13
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I exhort Acts 27:25, Acts 27:36, Acts 23:11; 1Sam 30:6; Ezra 10:2; Job 22:29-30; Ps 112:7; Isa 43:1-2; 2Cor 1:4-6, 2Cor 4:8-9
for Acts 27:31, Acts 27:34, Acts 27:44; Job 2:4
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there Acts 5:19, Acts 12:8-11, Acts 12:23, Acts 23:11; Dan 6:22; Heb 1:14; Rev 22:16
whose Exod 19:5; Deut 32:9; Ps 135:4; Song 2:16, Song 6:3; Isa 44:5; Jer 31:33, Jer 32:38; Ezek 36:38; Zech 13:9; Mal 3:17; John 17:9-10; 1Cor 6:20; Titus 2:14; 1Pet 2:9-10
and Acts 16:17; Ps 116:16, Ps 143:12; Isa 44:21; Dan 3:17, Dan 3:26, Dan 3:28, Dan 6:16, Dan 6:20; John 12:26; Rom 1:1, Rom 1:9, Rom 6:22; 2Tim 1:3, 2Tim 2:24; Titus 1:1
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Fear not Acts 18:9-10; Gen 15:1, Gen 46:3; 1Kgs 17:13; 2Kgs 6:16; Isa 41:10-14, Isa 43:1-5; Matt 10:28; Rev 1:17
thou Acts 9:15, Acts 19:21, Acts 23:11, Acts 25:11; Matt 10:18; John 11:9; 2Tim 4:16-17; Rev 11:5-7
lo Acts 27:37; Gen 12:2, Gen 18:23-32, Gen 19:21-22, Gen 19:29, Gen 30:27, Gen 39:5, Gen 39:23; Isa 58:11-12; Mic 5:7; Jas 5:16
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I believe Acts 27:11, Acts 27:21; Num 23:19; 2Chr 20:20; Luke 1:45; Rom 4:20-21; 2Tim 1:12
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a certain Acts 28:1
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the fourteenth Acts 27:18-20
Adria Adria strictly speaking, was the name of the Adriatic gulf, now the Gulf of Venice, an arm of the Mediterranean, about 400 miles long and 140 broad, stretching along the eastern shores of Italy on one side, and Dalmatia, Sclavonia, and Macedonia on the other. But the term Adria was extended far beyond the limits of this gulf, and appears to have been given to an indeterminate extent of sea, as we say, generally, the Levant. It is observable, that the sacred historian does not say "in the Adriatic gulf," but "in Adria," (that is, the Adriatic sea, πελαγος G99 being understood); which, says Hesychius, was the same as the Ionian sea; and Strabo says that the Ionian gulf "is a part of that now called the Adriatic." But not only the Ionian, but even the Sicilian sea, and part of that which washes Crete, were called the Adriatic. Thus the scholiast on Dionysius Periegetis says, "they call this Sicilian sea Adria." And Ptolemy says that Sicily was bounded on the east by the Adriatic, υπο G5259, Αδριοι G99, and that Crete was bounded on the west by the Adriatic sea, υπο G5259, του G5120, Αδριατικον πελαγος G3989.
the shipmen Acts 27:30; 1Kgs 9:27; Jonah 1:6; Rev 18:17
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fallen Acts 27:17, Acts 27:41
anchors Acts 27:30, Acts 27:40; Heb 6:19
and wished Deut 28:67; Ps 130:6
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the boat Acts 27:16, Acts 27:32
foreship Acts 27:41
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said Acts 27:11, Acts 27:21, Acts 27:42-43
Except Acts 27:22-24; Ps 91:11-12; Jer 29:11-13; Ezek 36:36-37; Luke 1:34-35, Luke 4:9-12; John 6:37; 2Thess 2:13-14
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Luke 16:8; Phil 3:7-9
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while Acts 27:29
This Acts 27:27
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for this Matt 15:32; Mark 8:2-3; Phil 2:5; 1Tim 5:23
for there 1Kgs 1:52; Matt 10:30; Luke 12:7, Luke 21:18
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and gave Acts 2:46-47; 1Sam 9:13; Matt 15:36; Mark 8:6; Luke 24:30; John 6:11, John 6:23; Rom 14:6; 1Cor 10:30-31; 1Tim 4:3-4
in Ps 119:46; Rom 1:16; 2Tim 1:8, 2Tim 1:12; 1Pet 4:16
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they all Ps 27:14; 2Cor 1:4-6
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two Acts 27:24
souls Acts 2:41, Acts 7:14; Rom 13:1; 1Pet 3:20
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they lightened Acts 27:18-19; Job 2:4; Jonah 1:5; Matt 6:25, Matt 16:26; Heb 12:1
The wheat The Romans imported corn from Egypt, by way of Alexandria, to which this ship belonged; for a curious account of which see Bryant's treatise on the Euroclydon.
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taken up etc. or, cut the anchors, they left them in the sea, etc. Acts 27:29-30
the rudder bands Or, "the bands of the rudders;" for large vessels in ancient times had two or more rudders, which were fastened to the ship by means of bands, or chains, by which they were hoisted out of the water when incapable of being used. These bands being loosed, the rudders would fall into their proper places, and serve to steer the vessel into the creek, which they had in view, and hoisted. Isa 33:23
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they ran Acts 27:17, Acts 27:26-29; 2Cor 11:25
broken 1Kgs 22:48; 2Chr 20:37; Ezek 27:26, Ezek 27:34; 2Cor 11:25-26
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Ps 74:20; Prov 12:10; Eccl 9:3; Mark 15:15-20; Luke 23:40-41
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willing Acts 27:3, Acts 27:11, Acts 27:31, Acts 23:10, Acts 23:24; Prov 16:7; 2Cor 11:25
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that Acts 27:22, Acts 27:24; Ps 107:28-30; Amos 9:9; John 6:39-40; 2Cor 1:8-10; 1Pet 4:18
land Melita, now Malta, the island on which Paul and his companions were cast, is situate in the Mediterranean sea, about fifty miles from the coast of Sicily, towards Africa; and is one immense rock of soft white free-stone, twenty miles long, twelve in its greatest breadth, and sixty in circumference. Some, however, with the learned Jacob Bryant, are of opinion that this island was Melita in the Adriatic gulf, near Illyricum; but it may be sufficient to observe, that the course of the Alexandrian ship, first to Syracuse and then to Rhegium, proves that it was the present Malta, as the proper course from the Illyrian Melita would have been first to Rhegium, before it reached Syracuse, to which indeed it need not have gone at all.