Ver. 26. eis νῆσον δέ κ.τ.λ.: the words do not form part of the message of the angel as they stand, but they may be considered as forming part of the contents of that message, and the Apostle may himself be regarded as speaking μαντικῶς. With Jiingst’s question ‘“‘ How could Paul know anything of an island? ”’ and his dismissal of the statement here: as a vaticinium ex eventu, cf. Weizsacker, u. S., See ver. 21; in the section, vv. 33-36, which Jingst defends and refers to his source A, the element of prophecy is equally present, ver. 34, as in the verse
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τῆς νυκτὸς ὑπενόουν οἱ ναῦται] προσάγειν τινὰ αὑτοῖς χώραν: 28. καὶ βολίσαντες, εὗρον ὀργυιὰς εἴκοσι: βραχὺ δὲ διαστήσαντες, καὶ πάλιν
Ίπροσαγειν NcACHLP Chrys., Tisch., W.H. text, Weiss, Blass in B text; προσαγαγειν S{* ; προσαχειν B*, cf. resonare, Gig., which suggests an earlier Greek reading προσηχειν (Ramsay, Harris, Rendall) : Hilgenfeld (1899) reads προσεγγιζειν, 5ο 137 c8ct., Syr. P.; B* has προσανεχειν, Vulg. apparere ; Winer-Schmiedel, p. 52.
before us.—éxweoetv, cf. νετ. 17, and further instances in Wetstein, see also νν. 29, 32, below.
Ver. 27. τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτη νύξ, {.ε., since their departure from Fair Havens, of. vv. 18, 1ο, see also the reckonings of mileage in Breusing, p. 189, and Goerne, who reckons from the departure from Cauda.—8.adepopévwy ἡμῶν: “as we were driven to and fro,” R.V., so Ram- say; “huc illuc ferri,” Blass, cf. for a similar meaning of the verb Philo, De Migr. Abr., 27, Strabo, 3, p. 144, and other instances as in Plutarch, see Wetstein, Grimm-Thayer, sub v. But J. Smith (so Breusing, Goerne, Ren- dall) takes the word as signifying that they were driven through the waters of the Adria uniformly in the same direc- tion, 7.e., right across from Cauda to Malta, and not as moving up and down, or to and fro. Ramsay (so Farrar) holds that St. Luke writes as a landsman who supposes that they drifted to and fro, whilst a sailor would have known that they drifted in a uniform direction (an explanation which Page describes as easy but unsatisfactory, but he thinks that the Greek word cannot be used as J. Smith believes); Rendall however maintains that throughout the Acts the habitual force of διά in composition, ¢.g., διέρχεσ- Bar, διαπλεῖν, διαφεύγειν, διαπερᾷν, διοδεύειν, whether governing an accusa- tive or used absolutely is to express continuous movement onwards over an intervening space.—éy τῷ ’A8pigq: “ in the sea of Adria,” R.V. (on the form of the word see Hastings’ B.D., more properly “‘ Adrias ’’) ; not in the narrower sense of the Adriatic, the Gulf of Venice, or as we now speak of “the Adriatic,’ but as including the whole sea which lay be- tween Malta, Italy, Greece and Crete; St. Luke probably used the term as it was colloquially used by the sailors in this wider sense. For Mommsen’s objection to the term here see above, Introd., p. 8. The passage in Strabo, ii., 123 (cf. vii., 187), where the Ionian sea is spoken of as a part of what is now called Adria plainly justifies a wider use of the term in St. Paul’s day than had been origin- ally attached to it, cf. Ptolemy, Geogr.,