10—13.
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εἰς Συρακούσας, ἐπεμείναμεν ἡμέρας Tpeis- 13. 60ev! περιελθόντες
κατηντήσαµεν cis Ῥήγιον, καὶ μετὰ play ἡμέραν ἐπιγενομένου νότου
! For περιελθ. R.V. marg. has περιελοντες with ἂν Β (Gig. tulimus), and so W.H.., but Weiss, Wendt, Hilg. follow T.R.; Weiss maintains with Wendt that περιελοντες
is simply a mistake, © having fallen out before O, but see below. Blass in B has και εκειθεν αραντες.
p. 156, follows T.R.
harbour for a ship of Alexandria on the way to Italy, but Meleda would be alto- gether out of the course (see J. Smith, p. 278, fourth edit.).
Ver. 12. καταχ.: “touching at,’’ R.V., Ramsay, cf. xxvii. 3. Weare not told that St. Paul landed, but the local tradition makes him the founder of the Sicilian Church, C. and Ἠ., Ρ. 663, small edit.— Σνρ.: (Sivagosa) about τοο miles distant from Malta, the capital of Sicily, and a Roman colony; in a mercantile city St. Paul would find countrymen and Jewish proselytes; it was moreover a city of great historical interest, and a usual stopping-place for Alexandrian ships on their voyage to Italy; see C. and H., p. 662, 1. s., and notices in Strabo, vi., p. 270 (but see also Grimm- Thayer, sub v., Σνρ.); Cicero, Verr., iv., 53; Pliny, Ν.Η., iti., 8, and B.D., sub v. For accentuation cf. also Grimm-Thayer. ---τρεῖς ἡμέρας: probably to wait for a favouring breeze from the south.—érrepel- ναµεν: with accusative of time, cf. x. 48, xxi. 4, 1Ο, ver. 14 below, 1 Cor. xvi. 7.
Ver. 13. περιελθόντες: so A. and R.V., but latter in margin περιελόντες, see critical note. Ramsay also following T.R. points out that the latter reading could hardly signify more than “ cast off’”’ (‘cast loose,’”’ margin, R.V.), unneces- sary here although important information in xxvii. 40, where τὰς ἁγκ. is added, and the meaning is evidently different. Ramsay renders ‘‘by tacking” (the verb referring to the frequent alteration of the ship’s course); they worked up to Rhe- gium by good seamanship as they could not go straight across, J. Smith, C. and H., p. 663, small edit. Mr. Lewin, St. Paul, ii., p. 736, takes a different view, and thinks that they were obliged to stand out to sea to fill their sails, and so to come to Rhegium by a circuitous sweep. R.V. renders simply ‘‘made a circuit,” so Grimm-Thayer. W.H., ii., p. 226, explain their rendering ‘* weighed anchor’’ by the use of the verb in xxvii. 40 (but see Blass above), the elliptic em- ployment of transitive verbs being com- mon in Greek nautical language as in English, and by the opinion that the run
J. Smith,
from Syracuse to Rhegium could not be described as circuitous, unless the ship was thrown out by contrary winds (but see above); Mr. Rendall supports W.H., Mr. Page the opposite, following T.R., so Smith, p. 156, fourth edit., and see critical note above, and Wendt (1899), Ῥ. 418. A.V. ‘fetched a compass,’’ so Tyndale, which formerly meant that they made a circuit, but the phrase is now obsolete, cf. 2 Sam. v. 23, 2 Kings iii. 9, same Greek verb in LXX.—‘Pyyov: Reggio, Titus put in here on his way from Judza to Puteoli bound for Rome, Suet., Tit., 5; and we learn from Jos., Ant., xix., 2, 5, that Caligula began to construct a harbour for the corn-ships of Egypt, although he never finished it. The place was situated at the southern entrance to the Straits of Messina, here little more than a few miles in breadth between it and the city Messina (on its name from ῥήγνυμι, because Sicily was at this point rent away from Italy, see Grimm-Thayer, sub v., and Wetstein). St. Paul was said to have visited Messina, and to have given the Christians a bishop, Acta Petri, Acta Pauli, Lipsius, p. ix. (Zockler). The coins show us that here too the Dioscuri were the patron deities. --κατην. only in Luke and Paul, see xvi. 1, of. 2 Macc. iv. 44.—émy.: “a south wind sprang up,” R.V., here only in N.T., cf. Thuc., iii., 74, iv., 30; Xen., Hell., iii., 2, 17, oborto Austro, Blass, or it may mean coming after or in suc- cession to, ἐπί, the previous adverse wind. ---δευτεραῖοι, cf. πεμπταῖοι, xx. 6, Blass in B, John xi. 39, Phil. iii. 5, so in classi- cal Greek. The distance is about 180 miles, and J. Smith, p. 217, 4th edit., points out that if we suppose the ship to sail at seven knots an hour the voyage would take about twenty-six hours, and St. Luke’s account is shown to be very accurate; see also Ramsay and Hackett for examples of the ancient rate of sailing quite in accordance with the facts before us. —Mloreédous (Poxzuoli), in earlier days Dicaearchia; its new name was Latin, probably from the mineral springs in the neighbourhood a puteis, or per- haps a putendo (C, and H.). It was