39-41.
, a > 4 3 πνεούσῃ κατεῖχον εἰς τὸν αἰγιαλόν.
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41. περιπεσόντες δὲ εἰς τόπον
διθάλασσον,ὶ ἐπώκειλαν τὴν ναῦν' καὶ ἡ μὲν πρώρα ἐρείσασα ἔμεινεν
1 For επωκειλαν (B°LP, Chrys., Meyer, Hilgenfeld), SSAB*C 13, 40, 61, 73 have
επεκειλαν, so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Bl
these rudders had been lifted from the water and lashed up while the ship was anchored by the stern (see Breusing’s description, p. 98, cf. Eur., Hel., 1536: πηδάλια ζεύγλαισι παρακαθίετο), but the rudders were wanted when the ship again got under weigh.—rq πγεού- oy, Sc. αὔρᾳ. -- ἑπάραντες: technical word for spreading out the sail, opposite to ὑφίεσθαι. --- κατεῖχον eis τὸν aily.: “they made for the beach,” R.V., in order to land, cf. Xen., Hell., ii., 1, 29; others take it as meaning to check the ship’s headway, but better, to hold or head the ship, Herod., vii., 59, 188, so Grimm- Thayer, sub v., sc. τὴν vatv, whilst others take the verb intransitively as above in R.V.—rév ἀρτέμονα: ‘the foresail,” R.V., Ramsay, J. Smith. The word has been interpreted by various writers as meaning nearly every sail which a vessel carries. Ifthe interpretation of ver. 17 is correct, it could not mean the mainsail as A.V. Others apply it to the stern-sail, which bears the name to-day (Italian, artimone ; French, voile d’artimon), but to set this sail would have been the most foolish thing they could have done, so Vars, Breusing. The word is found only here for the foresail, and its meaning is fixed by the fact that no other sail could be so well used by sailors under the cir- cumstances, see Breusing, p. 79, J. Smith, ΡΡ. 141 and 193 ff., 4th edit. In his edition, 1899, Wendt thinks it probable that the sail here meant is otherwise called δόλων, but see J. Smith, p. 200, 4th edit. In his former edition he preferred to inter- pret it of the topsail (Meyer, Weiss, Zockler, Baumgarten), but Breusing, p. xii., points out that only in the sixteenth century were topsails introduced; see also Vars, p. 93.
Ver. 41. περιπ. δὲ εἰς τ. διθ.: Luke x. 30, James 1. 2, with the dative, as generally, but Arrian, περιπίπτειν els τόπους πετρώδεις (Wetstein), 2 Macc. vi. 13, x. 4, Polyb., i., 37, 1. ets τόπον διθ.: a bank or a ridge between two seas, which has sea on both sides; cf. Dio Chrys., 5, Ρ. 83, where reference is made to the dangers of the sea: βραχέα καὶ διθάλαττα καὶ ratviat paxpai...
ass, Weiss, Wendt, see note below (and Wendt’s note in both edit., 1888 and 1899), and Blass, in loco. in B and Hilgenfeld adds εις συρτιν with Syr. H. c* (so Hilg.).
After την ναυν Blass
ἄπορον ... παρέχουσι τὸ πέλαγος (Wetstein and Blass). Breusing, Vars and Goerne (so Blass) take the words eis τ. 8. to refer to a hidden ridge beneath the water, and the aorist περιπ. in con- trast to the imperfect κατεῖχον seems to favour this, as expressing that they came upon a τόπ. 816. unexpectedly, cf. Page’s note and Ramsay’s translation, ‘“‘chancing on a bank between two seas ’”’. But the latter writer adds that the περιπ. does not imply want of purpose, as ἐπώκειλαν shows, and the meaning is that while at anchor they could not see the exact character of the spot (see also C. and H.), but as they approached they found that they had lighted on the channel not more than a hundred yards in breadth between the island of Salmonetta and the mainland; this might very properly be called ‘‘a place where two seas meet,” A. and R.V., as it formed a communica- tion between the sea within the bay and the sea outside. The adjective 810. is as applicable to water uniting two seas, é.g., the Bosphorus, ¢f. Strabo, ii., 5, 12 (quoted by Smith), as to Jand like the Isthmus of Corinth; see J. Smith, pp. 142, 178, 4th edit., Hackett, C. and Η., Lumby, Rendall, and note in Speaker’s Commentary. Breusing, p. 204, Goerne, Wendt (1899) take it of St. Paul’s Bank which lies just in front of St. Paul’s Bay, so too Vars, p. 258, for the same view and its support.—éwe@Keav τὴν ναῦν: “they ran the vessel aground” (cf. J. Smith, p. 143, 4th edit.), see critical note. ἐποκέλλω and ἐπικέλλω are both used in classical Greek, but the latter is “alto- gether poetical ’’ (Blass), and more usualy intransitive. In Homer, Odys., ix., 148, however, we have νῆας . . - ἐπικέλσαι, and 546, νῆα ἐκέλσαμεν (cf. adpellere navem). Blass, Philology of the Gospels, Ρ. 186, sees in this sudden introduction of the phrase ἐπώκειλαν τὴν ναῖν an indica- tion that St. Luke had read his Homer, since in no other passage in the N.T. do we find the obsolete word 4 vais, the commoner expression τὸ πλοῖον occurring in this chapter no less than thirteen times. R.V. renders τὴν ναὂν ‘the vessel,” all other E.V. ‘the ship,’’ and