CHARTHEAXAVIE: 1. Sail (aromAciv). Lit., saad away. Band. Sec on Mark xv. 16.
2. Meaning to sail (wéAXovtes wAciv). This refers the in- tention to the voyagers ; but the best texts read wéAXovTu, agree- ing with wdol@, ship; so that the correct rendering is, as Rev., a ship—which was about to sail.
3. Touched (xatjyInuev). From card, down, and aya, to lead or bring. 'To bring the ship down from deep water to the land. Opposed to avnyInuev, put to sea (ver. 2); which is to bring the vessel wp (ava) from the land to deep water. See on Luke viii. 22. Zouched is an inferential rendering. Landed would be quite as good. rom Caesarea to Sidon, the distance was about seventy miles.
Courteously (dcAavIp@rws). Only here in New Testament. Lit., on @ man-loving way ; humanely ; kindly. Rev., kindly,
* So the best texts, instead of roaag, much.
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better than courteously. Courteous, from court, expresses rather polish of manners than real kindness.
To refresh himself (ésriuerelas tuyeiv). Lit., to receive care or attention.
4. We sailed under (i7emAevoauer). Rev., correctly, under the lee of : under the protection of the land.
6. A ship of Alexandria. Employed in the immense corn trade between Italy and Egypt. See ver. 38. The size of the vessel may be inferred from ver. 37.
7. Many (icavais). See on Luke vii. 6.
Scarce (yon). Incorrect. Render, as Rev., with difficulty. So, also, hardly, in ver. 8. The meaning is not that they had scarcely reached Cnidus when the wind became contrary, nor that they had come only as far as Cnidus in many days; but that they were retarded by contrary winds between Myra and Cnidus, a distance of about one hundred and thirty miles, which, with a favorable wind, they might have accomplished in a day. Such a contrary wind would have been the northwesterly, which pre- vails during the summer months in that part of the Archi- pelago.
9. The Fast. The great day of atonement, called “the Fast ” by way of eminence. It occurred about the end of Sep- tember. Navigation was considered unsafe from the beginning of November until the middle of March.
10. I perceive (Sewpd). As the result of careful observa- tion. See on Luke x. 18.
Hurt (&8pews). The word literally means énsolence, injury, and is used here metaphorically : insolence of the winds and waves, “like our ‘sport’ or ‘riot’ of the elements” (Hackett). Some take it literally, with presumption, as indicating the folly
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of undertaking a voyage at that season ; but the use of the word in ver. 21 is decisive against this.
Damage (fnuias). Better, as Rev., loss. Hurt and damage (A. V.) is tautological. See on the kindred verb, notes on dose, Matt. xvi. 26, and cast away, Luke ix. 25.
11. Master («uSepyyty). Only here and Apoe. xviii. 17. Lit., the steersman.
12. Not commodious (avevdérov). Lit., not well situated.
Lieth toward the southwest and northwest (@rézrovra kata AiBa Kai kata X@pov). Instead of lieth, Rev., literally and correctly, renders looking. The difference between the Rev. and A. V., as to the points of the compass, turns on the rendering of the preposition cata. The words southwest and northwest mean, literally, the southwest and northwest winds. According to the A. V., caté means toward, and has reference to the quarter from which these winds blow. According to the Rev., card means down: “looking down the southwest and northwest winds,” ¢.e., in the direction coward which they blow, viz., northeast and southeast. This latter view assumes that Phenice and Lutro are the same, which is uncertain. For full discussion of the point, see Smith, “ Voyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul;” Hackett, “Commentary on Acts;” Conybeare and Howson, “ Life and Epistles of St. Paul.”
13. Loosing thence (dpavres). Lit., having taken up. It is the nautical phrase for weighing anchor. So Rev.