Ver. 6. πλοῖον: St. Luke does no mention what kind of ship, but the fact that it was on its way from Egypt to Italy, and that in ver. 38 the cargo was eyi- dently grain, makes it a reasonable in- ference that the ship was carrying corn for conveyance to Rome. On this trade to Rome, Seneca, Efist., 77, and for the large size of the ships (cf. ver. 37) so employed cf. references in Wetstein to Lucian and Plutarch, and Breusing, p. 157, Goerne, and also for the reputation of the Alexandrian ships and sailors.— εὑρὼν: there was nothing unlikely in this, if Myra was situated as above de- scribed. The ship, therefore, Ramsay holds, had not been blown out of her
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ἡμᾶς τοῦ ἀνέμου, ὑπεπλεύσαμεν τὴν Κρήτην κατὰ Σαλμώνην: 8.
μόλις τε παραλεγόµενοι αὐτήν, ἤλθομεν εἰς τόπον τινὰ καλούμενον
Καλοὺς Λιμένας, ᾧ ἐγγὺς ἦν πόλις] Λασαία. 9.
διαγενοµένου, καὶ ὄντος 3
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ἤδη ἐπισφαλοῦς τοῦ πλοός, διὰ τὸ καὶ
τὴν νηστείαν ἤδη παρεληλυθέναι, παρήῄνει 6 Παῦλος, λέγων αὐτοῖς,
1 Λασαια, so HLP, Chrys., Arm., Blass in B text, Weiss, Hilgenfeld, but ἂν
Λασσαια; B, so W.H., Λασεα; Λαΐσσα Ne; A mg., Alasa; Vulg., Thalassa ; ΡΡ. 47, 58.
40, 96, Αλασσα (Lach.), Syr. Η.
see further W.H., App., p. 167, and Winer-Schmiedel,
245 omit. in B text by Blass with Flor., Gig.
course, and the westerly winds, preju- dicial to the run of the Adramyttian ship from Sidon to Myra, were favourable for the direct run of a ship from Alexandria, cf. ver. g, and the course taken by the Alexandrian ship was probably a custom- ary one during a certain season of the year for the voyage from Alexandria to Italy. Blass, on the other hand, quoting from Lucian, maintains that the ship was obliged to quit the usual course owing to the winds, but Ramsay has here the entire support of J. Smith, 1. s., Ρ. 73----ἐνεβίβασεν : vox nautica, Holtz- mann, cf. Thuc., i., 53.
Ver. 7. ἐν ἱκαναῖς ἡμέραις or ἱκανός: in temporal sense only in Luke in Ν.Τ., see Hawkins, p. 151, and ¢f. Vindicie Lucane (Klostermann), p. 51.—Bpadv- πλοοῦντες: Artemid., Oneir., iv., 30; ταχυπλοεῖν, Polyb. (Blass), evidently on account of the strong westerly winds ; the distance was about a hundred and thirty geographical miles to Cnidus.—kat μόλις γεν. κατὰ τὴν K.: “and were come with difficulty off Cnidus,”’ R.V., to this point the course of the two ships would be the same from Myra ; here they would no longer enjoy the protection of the shore, or the help of the local breezes and cur- rents ; “so far the ship would be shel- tered from the north-westerly winds, at Cnidus that advantage ceased” (J. Smith).—Kvi8ov: the south-west point of Asia Minor, the dividing line between the western and southern coast ; a Dorian colony in Caria having the rank of a free city like Chios; see 1 Macc. xv. 23.— μὴ προσεῶντος: ‘as the wind did not permit our straight course onwards,” Ramsay, so Blass, J. Smith, p. 79: the northerly wind in the A®gean effectu- ally prevented them from running straight across to the island of Cythera, north of Crete; cf. Wendt’s note (1899), in loco, inclining to agree with Ramsay, see critical note; others take the words to mean “the wind nof permitting us
unto it,” 7.e., to approach Cnidus (Hac- kett), so too R.V., margin. But there does not seem to have been any reason why they should not have entered the southern harbour of Cnidus. They might have done so, and waited for a fair wind, had they not adopted the alternative of running for the east and south coast of Crete. The verb προσεῶντος does not occur elsewhere, and the same must be said of the conjecture of Blass, προ- εῶντος.---ὑπεπλεύ.: “we sailed under the lee of Crete off Cape Salmone’”’ (Ramsay), z.e., a promontory on the east of the island, and protected by it from a north-westerly wind (Ramsay). Strabo has Σαλμώνιον and Zap@viov (Pliny, Sammonium) ; Σαλμώνις is also found;