The Pulpit Commentary — Acts — Volume 2 — Section 285

Yer. 5.-..4ero1111 for - • A.V.; tahich u near to an obscure and othorwiae unknown oJr for of, A.V. (.-h lta'l"it 'l"~V K1ll.11tla.v, l<,'1".;\,,). town called Laeoa, possibly the same u Across the HL Wben they got under the WOii, mentioned by Pliny &a one of the in- <'ne.st of Cilicia and Pamphylia, they found land cities of Crete(' Nat. Hist.,• iYI xii. 20) the northerly wind, ILB M. De Pages did, or 1U1 Elma (ibid.). ' and that enabled them to take a westerly Ver. 9.-And for now, A.V.; the uoyage for course t:o Myra, a seaport in Lyoia. The tahen sailing, A. V. ; 90fl6 by for pwt, A. V, modem Turkish name of Myra is Dembrs. Mnoh time(/,cavoi; XPOvou 8,a-y,vo/1-{vou). The (For an aooount and drawings of the won- word lrtavos is very frequently used by SL derful rock-tombs of Myra, see Fellows's Luke, both in the Gospel and the Aots, for 'Lycia,' oh. ix.) "muoh," "many," or" long," but the exaot Ver. 6.-For for into, A.V. Xe put us quantity of time, or words, or people, etc. therein ; lve/3{/3aue11, only here in the New indicated is of course relative to whu.t might Testament, and once in the LXX. (Prov. iv. reasonably be expected in each case. Judas 11 ). It is a nautical term for embarking of Gal\lee (eh. v. 37) drew "much" people men on board ship (Thucydides, Xenophon, after him; the Jews at Damascus conspired Lucian, ero.), e.nd is also nsed by medical to kill Saul after "many" days were ful- writers for "placing patients in a bath." filled ( eh. ix. 23); Paul and Barnab&B The corn-vessel (nams frumenl,a,na) from abode "long time" at Icon~um (oh. xiv. 3); Alexandria to Italy may very probably Panl talked a "long" while at Troas (eh. have been driven out of its direct course by :u:. 3) ; and they sailed slowly off the coast the same contrary winds which forced St. of Asia "many " days (ver. 7); the length, Paul to sail under Cyprus (see Howson, i.e. the "sufficiency" (l1<avo.-71s) must de- ,-ol. ii. p. 325, note 5), or commercial objects pend in each case upon the standard by may have brought it to Lycia, to carry which it is measured. Here "much time," Asiatic merchandize to Rome, in addition measured by the common experience of sail- to its cargo of Egyptian wheat-possibly ing-vessels waiting for a favourable wind, "timber from the woody mountains of may mean one or two weeks. It is more Lycie." (Lewin, vol. ii. p. 188, note). natural to apply the phrase to the time of Ver. 7.- Were C01Tlll vnth difficulty for their detention at Fair Havens, than, as Bearce were aome, A. V.; fv:rther suffering for Meyer and others do, to the time that elapsed suffering, A. V.; under fJUJ 1u oj for under, Bi.nee they sailed from Cmsarea. The voyage A. V. Had sailed slowly (/3p@=ll.oovvns, WILB now dangerous (.-oii ..-11.o&s, a late form only here). They were evidently sailing for the older ,rll.ov). Dangerou,; l,r,<T<f>all.oiis, near the wind, and would have to tack only here in the New Teste.ment, and in frcquentlv. They made in many days no Wisd. ix. 14; also occasionally in cle.ssical more progress (some hnndred e.nd thirty authors, but very frequently in medical miles) thu.n they would have made in writers. The Faat. The great Jewish fast twenty-four hours with a favourable wind. on the Day of Atonement, in the month With wffioulty (!Lo>us) they could only just Tisri, which fell this year on September 24 ma.nu.ge to do it, the wind not nffering them (Lewin and Farrar), probably while they (/1-1/ ,rpou,ii,vros, here only). When they were at Fair Havens. The Jews considered had with great difficulty got BS far e.s over navigation unsafe between the Feast of against Cnidns, on the coast of Caria, the Tabernacles (five days after the Day of north wind which caught them made it Atonement) and the Feast of Penteoost impOBBible to go further north. Accord- (Lewin, vol ii. p. 192, note). It became, ingly they struck nearly dne south, and therefore, a very serious question what they bore down upon Crete, e.nd passing Cape were to do. Fair Havens was an inconve- Su.lmone, its eastern extremity, they ea.me nient anchorage for the winter, and not near along the southern side of the island. any large town. On the other hand, if they Ver. 8.- With difficulty coa.1Jting along it passed beyond the shelter of Cape Matala, for 1w.rdly passing it, A.V.; we came for which lay a few miles to the ee.st, e.nd where came, A. V. ; a ce,-iain place call.ed for a the coast of Crete suddenly trends due north, place which is called, A. V. ; Fair for the Fair, they would be exposed to the violence of A. V. With wfficulty couting along it; ,rap a• the Eteriu.n westerly wind. They oalled M-yo/1-••o•, only here and ve:c. 13. It is a nau- St. Paul into their counsels. Admonished tical phrs.ae, meaning to sail alongside of the them ; 1rap6v«, only here and ver. 22. In coa.et. In Latin "Legere hlLB the same mean- classical Greek used especially of advice ing. The difficnlty arose from their being given by a speaker in a public speech. In under the lee of the island, which sheltered medical writers it expresses the advice given them from the north-west wind, but left them by a physiciu.n to his patient. without any motive power. However, they Ver. 10.-The for this, A.V.; injury for JD&naged to get as far as Fair Havens, where hurt, A.. V.; loss for damage, A.V. ; ths ihtp they anchored in the roadste&d so called, for ,hip, A.V. Sirs, I peroeive, etc. St. cu. ltxvu. 1-14.J 'I'HB ACTS Oi~ 'l'ftE Al'OS'l'U~A.