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πλοῖον, ἐκβαλλόμενοι τὸν σῖτον eis τὴν θάλασσαν.
39. “Ore δὲ
ἡμέρα ἐγένετο, τὴν γῆν οὐκ ἐπεγίνωσκον' κόλπον δέ τινα κατενόουν
ἔχοντα αἰγιαλόν, εἰς dv? ἐβουλεύσαντο, εἰ δύναιντο,ῦ ἐξῶσαι τὸ πλοῖον.
40. καὶ τὰς ἀγκύρας περιελόντες εἴων eis τὴν θάλασσαν, dpa ἀνέντες
τὰς Γευκτηρίας τῶν πηδαλίων: καὶ ἐπάραντες τὸν" ἀρτέμονα τῇ
1 Before την γην Gig., Syr. P. add οι vavrat, so Blass in β and Hilg.
2 For εβονλευσαντο ΝΕΒΟ, Vulg., Syrr. P. and H., Boh., Tisch., W.H., R.V., Blass, Weiss, Wendt, Hilgenfeld read εβονλενοντο; A 40, 61 have εβουλοντο.
3 For εξωσαι B*C, Boh., Aeth., Arm. have εκσωσαι, so W.H. text, Κ.Υ. marg., but Tisch., W.H. mg., R.V. text, Blass, Weiss, Hilgenfeld read εξωσαι (Wendt
doubtful).
4 αρτεμονα LP, Chrys., but -ωνα W.H., Weiss, Blass with ΝΑΒΟΗ, B! has
αρτοµωνα, see Winer-Schmiedel, p. 86.
Ver. 39. τὴν γῆν οὐκ ἐπεγ.: ‘they did not recognise the land,” Ramsay ; the sailors probably knew Malta, since, xxviii. 11, there was evidently nothing unusual in eastern ships touching at the island on their way to Rome. But they did not know St. Paul’s Bay, which is remote from the great harbour, and was not distinguished by any marked features to secure recognition, Ramsay, J. Smith ; see also note on xxviii. 1. C. and H. lay stress on the imperfect, ‘they tried to recognise . . ., but could not”; but in XXVill. I we have the aorist indicating that the land was recognised immediately on Ιαπάϊησ.---κατενόουν: “ perceived,” R.V., cf. Matt. vii. 3, Luke vi. 41, xx. 23.— κόλπον τινα: a sort of bay or creek, “a bay,” R.V., the word means a bay either small or large, and St. Paul’s Bay may be described as a small bay or creek (Ren- dall); ἔχοντα αἰγιαλόν “with a sandy beach,” Ramsay, with a beach, R.V., {.6., smooth and fit for a vessel’s landing- place, cf. xxi. 5, Matt. xiii. 2, 48, John xxi. 4; cf. Χεπ., Anab., vi., 4, 4 (see Page’s note); in LXX, Judg. v. 17 A, Ecclus. xxiv. 14 S%, al. J. Smith adds that St. Luke here again employs the correct hydrographical term, fre- quently used by Arrian in this sense. The traditional St. Paul’s Bay may cer- tainly well have been the place meant (so Wendt, 1899, and Blass). On the smooth, sandy beach see Hackett, note, Ρ. 334, who has also visited the spot, and confirmed Smith’s view, although both admit that the former sandy beach has been worn away by the action of the sea; Smith, p. 247, 4th edition, and see also Ramsay, St. Paul, p. 341.—éE@oar τὸ πλοῖον: “to drive the ship upon it,” R.V., {.ε., the beach, so Ramsay, Ren- dall, Breusing, Vars, Goerne, J. Smith
(4th edit., p. 142); the object was not to save the ship from being destroyed, but the crew from perishing ; under like cir- cumstances the same would be done to- day (so Breusing, Vars), cf. Arrian, Peripl. Pont. Eux., 6. ἐξῶσαι: so in Thuc., ii., 90; viii., 104 (and see Wet- stein) ; see also critical note on ἐκσῶσαι εἰ δύναιντο, and Burton, p. 106, and Grimm-Thayer, sub el, i., 7, ο., with optative, where the condition represents the mind and judgment of others . . . , as if the sailors had said amongst themselves ἐξώσομεν eb δννάµεθα, cf. xxiv. το.
Ver. 40. Kal τὰς ἁγκ. περιελόντες: “and casting off the anchors,” R.V., cf. ver. 20 for the same verb, so that the meaning cannot be as A.V., following Vulgate, ‘‘ having taken up”’; in fact it is the very reverse. The sailors loosed the cables of the anchors which were fastened within the ship, that they might fall off into the sea (Blass) ; Breusing and Vars com- pare Xen., Hell., xvi., 21, τὰς ἀγκύρας ἀποκόπτοντες-ξ τὰ σχοινία τῶν ἀγκυρῶν. ---εἴων εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν : ‘ they left them (the anchors) in the sea,” R.V., relingue- bant, Blass; so Breusing, Vars, Goerne, as against A.V., and Vulgate, committe- bant se, or Luther’s rendering (Beza and Grotius), εἴων τὸ πλοῖον ἰέναι eis τὴν θάλασσαν. Grimm-Thayer renders “they let down into the sea,” 2.6., aban- doned, which gives better the force of εἷς than ecaiing it simply as = év.— apa: “at the same time,” R.V., “simul laxantes,” Vulgate, ‘loosing withal,” Rhem., but in no other E.V. (Speaker's Commentary).—ras ζευκτ. τῶν πηδαλίων: the bands of, the rudders, the fastenings of the rudders, i.e., the two paddle-rud- ders with which Greek and Roman ships were supplied, one on each quarter, C. and H. and J. Smith, p. 183, 4th edition,