The Pulpit Commentary — Acts — Volume 2 — Section 286

Pnul's opinion and reasons are evidently variously written Phcenicus, Phamice, anrl not fully given; only tho result, that he Phceniz; and probably derived its nl\me from strongly ndvised against the course to which the palm tree, (,po'iviO, which is irnligenons they were inclined, and foretold disaster in Crete. It is identified with almost cer- as likely to ensue from it. I perceive (O,wp,ji), tainty with the modern Lutro or Loutro, ne John iv. 19: xii. 19: oh. xvii. 22. Iu which is both " an admirable harbour," nil these places something actually seen or situated exactly where Phcanice ought to heard lea.de to the inference or conclusion be, and further by its proximity to a villago stated. Bo here the angry state of the calledAradhene, and another called Anopoli.;, weather and of the sea-perhaps they had shown to be the same as Phcanix, or Phenice, walked as far as Oape Matala, and seen the which is described in ancient writers rough waves-convinced him of the rash- (Hierocles and Stephanus of Byzantium) as ness of the enterprise contemplated. In- identical with or close to Aradhena and Ano- jury (1/fJp,.ir, and at ver. 21): literally, polis (tho upper city). Winter; npax«· violence, rough usage-properly of persons µ.d.11a,, so too eh. xxviiL 11 ; 1 Cor. xvi. 6 ; to persons (o.e 2 Cor. xii. 10), but metaphori- Titus iii. 12, and 1rapax«µa11ta. in this verse. cally here transferred to inanimate objects. It is found also lil classical writers. Look- Compare the use of Mpi(w (Matt. xxii. 6: ing north-east and south-east. The margin Luke xviii. 32: eh. xiv. 5 ; l Thess. ii. 2), of the R.V. has "Greek, down the south- and the phrases vcu11icr-rovov v/Jpw (Pindar), west wind, and down the north-1J/est." This 8c11.d.-r-r11• v/Jp,v (Anthol.), oµ/Jpi:,v v/Jp« (Jo- phrase has caused considerable perplexity sephus), quoted in Kuinoel and Meyer. to commentators. To say, as a recommen- Moyer's explanation of /J{Jp«, as meaning dation of a harbour for winter quarters, "presumption" or "temerity" on the part that it lies or looks toward the south-west of the navigators, is quite inadmissible, es- and north-west, and consequently is exposed pecially in view ofver. 21. Also of our lives. to the most furious winter storms, is ob- Observe the thorough honesty of the his- viously impossible. If Phceni.x was open torian who thus records the words of the to the south-west and the north-west, it apostle, though they were not justified by would not be as com.modius a place to winter the event (vers. 22, 24). in as !fair Havens w~ which was sheltered Ver. 11.-But for nevertheless, A. V.; gave by Cape Matala. Two methods, therefore, more heed to for believed, A.V.; to the owner have been adopted of explaining the phrase for the owner, A.V.; than to for more than, so as to make it give B reasonable sense. A.V. The master (11:u/Jepvfi-r11•), in the sense One, that adopted by Dean Howson and of" a commander of a tre.d.ing-ship" (John- Bishop Wordsworth, viz. that it looks south- son's 'Dictionary'); i.e. the navigator and west and north-west, from the point of view helmsma.n, in Latin magister na11is. The of the sailor, or any one approaching it from owner (vc611:ll.71po• ). The owner, no doubt, of the sea, the object upon which it looks being the cargo as well as of the ship itself: cl 8,- the le.nd which locks it in and shelters it. 111ror11r -roii '11'11.olou (Hesych,); ol vczu• "'"" The other is that supported by Alford, and -r71µtvo, (Ammonius). The 11:u/Jep;rfir11• and adopted by the R.V., and rests upon the the vcz611:11.71po• are often mentioned together; observation that 11.f/Js and X"'P•• are not e.g. in Pluturch, Artemidorus, quoted by points of the compass, but the names of the Alford, Kuinoel, etc. south-west and north-west winds, and that Ver. 12.-Put to sea from thence for depart to look down (,cczTcf) a wind is the same as thence also, A.V. and T.R.: could reach looking down a stream. If the harbour looks Phreni:e for might attain to Phenice, A.V.; down the south-west wind it looks toward winter thei·e for there to winter, A.V.; a haven the north-east, and if it looks down the for an haven, A.V.; looking north-east and north-west wind it looks toward the south - south-east for and lieth toward the south-west east. Its open side would be from north- and north-west, A.V. Not oommodious; uveu- east to south-cast, it would bo entirely efrou (not well placed, or disposed), only sheltered on the south-west and north-west here. But the simple ,~8eTo• is used twice side. This is the explanation adopted also by St. Luke (ix. 62: xiv. 35), in the sonse of by Dean Plumptre. The south-west wind ; "fit" (also Heb. vi. 7), and is of frequent 11.l,i,, only he1·e in the New '.restament, but use in medical writers, for "convenient," frequent in classical Greek and in the LXX. " well adapted to," and the like. To put to (see Ps. luviii. [I.uxii., Septuagint] 26). sea ( czvczx8ilvcz,); see ver. 3, note. Reaoh j As a point of the compass, it is the rendering '.'aravr,l11a,, only in the Acts (frequently) and of :I~), (Gen. xiii. 14, etc.), of 19'1: (Numb. 111 St. Paul's Epistles. It is genernlly, if not ii. 10, etc.), of o\i:i (Deut. x.xxiii. 23). The nlways, used of coming from tho higher to north-west 10ind; xi:,po• (the Latin Caurus or the lower place, and from tho scl\ to the OONI), only here in the New Testament, land (see oh. xvi. 1 : xviii. 19, 24: x.x. 15; and not found in Greek writers. x:xi. 7: xxviii. 13, etc.). l'h(l)nu;, It is Ver. 13.-They weighed anchor and for  THE ACTS OF 'l'llE APOS'l'LE8. (en. xx.vn. 1-H.