13—15.
523;
14. pet οὗ πολὺ δὲ ἔβαλε κατ αὐτῆς ἄνεμος τυφωνικός, 6 καλού-
µενος Ἰ Εὐροκλύδων.
15. συναρπασθέντος δὲ τοῦ πλοίου, καὶ μὴ
1 EvpaxvAwv NAB*, Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt, Blass, HLP, Chrys. have EvpoxAvdwy, so Hilg. (1899); B® 40, 133; Ενρυκλυδων (Griesbach, Meyer, Nosgen) ; i.e., a wind causing broad waves, the Wide-washer (Grimm-Thayer, sud v.,
“der Breitsptlende” supported “by respectable authorities ’’).
Vulg., Cassiod.
have “' Euro-aquilo,” see Hastings’ B.D., sub v., and comment. below.
above on ver, 8. ἆσσον, an adverb com- parative of ἄγχι; the comparative degree makes it more emphatic (see above), as they had been coasting for weeks, and they now went “closer” in shore (see R.V.); Wendt (1899) takes it, however, not as a comparative with reference to ver. 8 (so Meyer, Weiss), but as a super- lative, cf. xxiv. 22, xxv. IO.
Ver. 14. per’ οὐ πολὺ δὲ, cf. xx. 12. οὐ petpiws, Luke xv. 15, Acts i. 5, '' ob- serve the ‘ Litotes’ of οὐ with an adjee- tive or adverb, four times in ‘We’ sections, twelve in rest of Acts, twice in Luke vii. 6, xv. 13, rare in rest of N.T.,” Hawkins, p. 153.--ἔβαλε «at αὐτῆς: intransitive, as often in classical Greek since Homer: “there beat down from it,’’ R.V., z.e., from Crete and its moun- tains over 7,000 feet in height; so also Blass, Holtzmann, Ramsay, Zéckler, Page, Rendall, Wendt, Weiss, Knaben- bauer, and J. Smith, in later editions, see p. 100, 4th edition ; a graphic description of a common experierice in the Cretan waters ; as the ship crossed the open bay between Cape Matala and Pheenice, the wind suddenly shifting to the north, a violent hurricane (strictly from east-north- east) burst upon them from Mount Ida, cf. St. Luke’s κατέβη, Luke viii. 23, of a squall descending from the hills on the Lake of Gennesaret, and κατὰ τοῦ κρηµ- vov, Luke viii. 33, cf. Matt. viii. 32 (J. Smith, Weiss, Zéckler). Breusing, p. 164 (so Hackett, Lewin, Farrar), takes Kar αὐτῆς as= against the ship, but the word πλοῖον is used for ship, and not vavs until ver.41. Luther regarded αὐτῆς as agreeing with προθέσεως (so Tyndale and Cranmer).—tvqgwvikds : formed from τυφώς, turbo, denoting not the direction, but the vehemence of the wind (Breusing, Page), a heavy, eddying squall (J. Smith, Ramsay), vorticosus (Bentley).—Evpo- κλύδων, see critical note. If we read with \8AB* Εὐρακύλων, render “ which is called Euraquilo,” R.V. Perhaps the irregularly formed Euraquilo occasioned the corrections. V. Euroaquilo. Blass calls it vox hybrida from etpos and Aquilo (qui Latin=«v, ut ᾽Ακύλας,
xviii. 2), strictly the “ East-north-east ” wind (Breusing thinks ‘ North-east” sufficient; so Wycliffe and Tyndale in their translations). Such a wind would drive the ship into the African Syrtis as the pilot feared, ver. 17, and the word is apposite to the context, to all the cir- cumstances, and is so well attested as to fairly claim admission as the word of St. Luke. The Latin had no name for the Greek Καικίας blowing between Aquilo and Eurus, and it is quite possible that the Roman seamen, for want of a specific word, might express this wind by the compound Euro-Aquilo ; cf. 6 καλούμενος, which seems to point to some popular name given to the wind ; for similar com- pounds cf. Εὐρόνοτος and Euro-Auster, and Gregalia, the name given to the same wind by the Levantines, as Euripus has become Egripou (Renan, Saint Paul, Ρ. 551); see Bentley, Remarks on a late Discourse on Freethinking, p. 97, quoted at length by Breusing, ‘Euraquilo,” Hastings’ B.D. and B.D.?, i.
Ver. 15. συναρπασθέντο δὲ Tov πλοίον: “and when the ship was caught by it” (Ramsay), a graphic word as if the ship was seized in the grasp of the wind; only in Luke, cf. Luke viii. 20, Acts vi. 12, xix. 29; in LXX cf. Prov. vi. 25, 2 Macc. iii. 27, iv. 41, 4 Macc. v. 4; so in classical Greek, ¢.g., Soph., Electr., 1150.—évtop9ahpev : “and could not face the wind,” R.V., ‘look at the wind eye to eye”: eyes were painted on the prows of vessels, but Alford thinks that the word was not originally q nautical term derived from this practice, but that more probably the expression was trans- ferred to a ship from its usage in com- mon life ; it is used in Polybius of facing an enemy, Polyb., i., 17, 3, of resisting temptation, xxviii. 17, 18, with δύνασθαι as here, and also with δύνασθαι in Wisd. vii. 14, of. Acts vi. 11, B text. For the fit application of the word to a ship see Breusing, p. 168.---ἐπιδόντες ἐφερό- µεθα: ‘we gave way to it (to the wind), and were driven,” or τὸ πλοῖον may be regarded as the object, ‘‘ we gave up the ship to the winds,” “data nave fluctibus