Ηλ, 4, 14, 15, 16, who applies it to the sea extending from Sicily to Crete, and thus represents, although living some sixty or seventy years after him, what was no doubt the current usage in St. Luke’s day; so J. Smith, Breusing, Goerne, Vars, Ramsay, Renan, Blass, etc. Jose- phus, Vita, 3, speaks of being taken up in the middle of Adria, κατὰ µέσον τὸν ᾿Αδρίαν, when his ship foundered, by a vessel sailing from Cyrene to Puteoli. See further “Adria,” Hastings’ B.D., where a full criticism of the attémpt made by W. Falconer (and others), Dis- sertation on St. Paul’s Voyage, 1817, re- published with additions in 1870, to limit the term to the bsanch of the sea be- tween Italy and Illyria, and to identify Melita with an island off its Illyrian shore, will be found; see further on xxvili. 1, and C. and H., small edition, Ῥ. 660 ff., for other references to the meaning of the term “ Adria,” and Renan, Saint Paul,» p. 552, J. Smith, p. 280 ff., 4th edit. (editor’s note), and Encycl. Bibl., i., 72, 1899.— kata µέσον τῆς ν., Cf. xvi. 25 for a similar expression, only in Luke. ---ὑπενόουν: only in Luke; “surmised,” R.V., less decided than “deemed,” A.V., see on xiii. 25 (cf. 1 Tim. vi. 4).---προσ- άγειν Twa αὐτοῖς x.: “that some land was approaching them,” R.V., so Breu- sing and Ramsay; intransitive in LXX, Josh. iii. 9, 1 Sam. ix. 18, Jer. xxvi. (xlvi.) 3, etc., '' Lucas optice loquitur, nautarum more,’’ Kypke; the opposite verb would be ἀναχωρεῖν, recedere, see Wetstein and Blass for illustrations. J. Smith thinks that probably they heard the breakers on the shore, but Breusing and Goerne (so Blass) think that the anchor or what- ever weight was dragged behind the ship appeared to strike the ground, see above on ver. 17, cf. critical note for προσαχεῖν, Doric for προσηχεῖν. -- χώραν: «the point of Koura, east of St. Paul’s Bay, J. Smith; the ship would pass within a quarter of a mile of it, and while the land is too low to be seen when the night is stormy, the breakers can be heard for a considerable distance; cf. the descrip- tion of the wreck of the Lively in 1810, Smith, p. 123, 4th edition.
Ver. 28. βολίσαντες: having let down
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