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λίβα καὶ κατὰ χῶρον.
13. ὑποπνεύσαντος δὲ νότου, δόξαντες τῆς.
προθέσεως κεκρατηκέναι, ἄραντες ” ἆσσον παρελέγοντο τὴν Κρήτην.
1 Flor. om. δοξ. . . . κεκρατ., So Blass in β. 2 For ασσον Blass in B with Flor. reads θασσον, 5ο Hilg. (1899); Vulg., so
Erasmus, “cum sustulissent de Asson,
taking Assos as Ασος (Asus, Pliny) as the
name of one of -the Cretan towns; Luther takes it as acc., ‘cum sustulissent
Assum”’,
Wycl. and Rhem. follow the Vulg., and Tynd. and Cranm. follow
Luther, but there is no clear trace of the existence of a town so called in Crete, and Assos lay far to the north, xx. 13 (Plumptre).
Humphry and Page (whose full note should be consulted) suppose the modern Phineka to be meant; so also C. H. Prichard in Hastings’ B.D., “Crete”; see below. Alford, Acts, Proleg., p. 28, quotes from J. Smith’s Appendix (2nd edition) the words from Mr. G. Brown’s Journal (1855, 1856) stating that Lutro is the only secure harbour in all winds on the south coast of Crete, words quoted by Ramsay, St. Paul, p. 326, and Muir, Hastings’ B.D., “ Fair Havens”.—Apéva τῆς Κ. κ.τ.λ.: “a harbour of Crete which faces south-west and north-west,” so Ramsay, and so A.V. and Vulgate. But R.V. so Ren- dall, “looking north-east and south- east,’ which is a correct description of the entrance of the harbour of Lutro, so J. Smith, Alford, Lumby and Plumptre, who interpret “looking down the south-west and north-west winds,” literally translated as=in the direction of these winds, i.e., the direction to which they blew, and so north-east and south- east, κατά indicating the line of motion, cf. R.V. margin, and so Rendall and Knabenbauer, ix loco. C. and H., so Ramsay and Farrar, find an explanation of the rendering in A.V. in the sub- jectivity of the sailors, who describe a harbour from the direction in which they sail into it; and thus by trans- mission from mouth to mouth the wrong impression arose that the harbour itself looked south-west and north-west. As against Rendall’s interpretation and that of R.V., see Page and Hackett’s learned notes in loco. Both lay stress upon the phrase, βλέπειν κατά τι, as used only of that which is opposite, and which you face. Cf. Luke’s own use of κατά, iii. 13, Vili. 26, xvi. 7, XXVil. 7. Page, and so C. H. Prichard, Hastings’ B.D., “Crete,” would adopt A.V. read- ing, but would apply it to the harbour Phineka, opposite Lutro, which does loek south-west and north-west. At), (prob. λείβω) Herod., ii., 25, Polyb., x.,
103, etc., south-west wind A/fricus, χῶρος.. north-west wind Corus or Caurus.
Ver. 13. ὑποπνεύσαντος: leniter af- flante, aspirante, cf. ὑποκινέω, ὕπομει- διάω, a moderate breeze from the south arose which would favour their westerly course. Cf. Luke xii. 55, not in LXX or Apocrypha, but see Heliod., iii., 3 (Wet- stein). —SdéEavres, xii. 9, τῆς προθ. κεκρατηκέναι: their purpose, i.¢., of starting from Fair Havens for the more desirable anchorage of Lutro some forty miles distant. προθέσεως, cf. xi. 23; in N.T. only in Luke and Paul in this. sense; cf. 2 Macc. iii. 8. κεκρατ.: only here in this sense in N.T., cf. Diod. Sic., XVi. 20, κεκρατηκότες ἤδη τῆς προ- θέσεως (Grimm-Thayer, Page), and for instances of the same collocation of words in Galen, and in Polyb. (κατακρατεῖν), see Wetstein and Blass, im loco. Breu- sing, p. 164, takes the phrase to refer here to their purpose of continuing their voyage to the end (so too Goerne).— ἄραντες: ‘they weighed anchor,” Κ.Υ. So Ramsay, J. Smith, pp. 65, 97; only here in N.T. in this sense, sc. τὰς. ἀγκύρας, cf. Thuc., i., 52, and ii., 23, but the word may imply simply profecti, of movement, whether by sea or by land, of armies or ships; so Breusing takes it intransitively, no need of any noun, Thuc., iv., 129; vii., 26 (p. 164): see also ver. 17. For aorist participle of an action antecedent in time to that of the principal verb cf. xiv. 19: Burton, pp. 63, 6ᾳ.--ἄσσον παρελ. τὴν K.: “sailed along Crete, close in-shore,’ R.V., i.e., as they rounded Cape Matala, about six miles west of Fair Havens; the statement so emphatically introduced by St. Luke seems to imply that their ability to weather the point was for some time doubtful, Ramsay, St. Paul, p. 326. ἄσσον: “if the wind went round a point towards the west they would fail; and the anxious hour has left its record in the single word of νετ. 13, ‘aoqov,’” Ramsay, u. s. See critical note, and