The Pulpit Commentary — Acts — Volume 2 — Section 289

'frritel'I!. It is the pMsive voice, and this or by which they could know the dlreotlon i• best exproesed by the A.V. " tossed." in which they were drifting. Shone upon They bogan to throw, eto. The phrase us (l.-111>0.av&v.,.•w); showed themaelvee; i.e. "ap- jKfJoll.iJI' bro1ovvro is one of the technical peared," as in the A.V., which is the best phrneee for taking n cn.rgo out of a ship, rendering (comp. l..-14>a.v,!a, the e.ppeu.re.noe, gi.-en by Julius Pollnx; iKfJo>..¾w ,ro1T1tra.u8a.1 or Epiphany). Now. Ao1,r&v, .,.b >..o,.-dv, and .,-wv <f>op.,.lo,v (Alford, from Smith). It ie -roii Ao,,..ov e.re used odverbially both in the also the phrase of the LXX. in Jonah i. 5, New Testament and in cll\llsionl Greek. It 'E,cl3oi\.~11 Jwo1-l1uavro -rWv 0-l('E'U<dv T<dv Iv .,-~ is sometimes rendered " now," i.e. for the ..->..olo,.~e!i began to expresses the imper- time that remains ; e.nd sometimes " henoe- feot. It 18 m ferred from this, and the sub- forth;" sometimes" finolly" (Me.rk :r.iv. 41; eeqnent a,tatement (ver. 19) as to throwing 2 Tim. iv. 8; 2 Cor. xiii. 11, eto.). It seems overboard the tackling of the ship, that, in that sometimes xp&vov is to be understood. spit.a of the undergirding, the ship was and sometimes that it moons "as for whe.t Jcaldng, and therefore heavy with water, and reme.ineth" to be soid or done (comp. the in danger of going down (comp. Jonah i. French du reste or au reste). 5). The freight here mentioned may have Ver. 21.-.A.nd tllhen they had been long been heavy packages of merchandise other without food for but afi,er long abstinence, than the main oargo of wheat (see ver. 6, A.V. e.nd T.R.; then Paul for Paul, A.V.; note). set sail for loosed, A.V.; and gotten for to Ver. 19.-Tl,ey for tlle, A. V. and T.R.; hatie gained, A.V.; injury for harm, A.V. their for our, A.V. The third day after Long without food (,..oAA,)s a.,r1.-/a.s lnra.p• leaving Claude.. The leak doubtless con- xo,',ff'T/s). 'A,r,.-(a. is only found here in the tinued, and there was more water in the Bible; but it we.s the common medico.I term ship. With their (or, our) own hands; for loss of the appetite, o.nd such is the most aim!x<1pH, only here in the Bible, bnt f:re.. ne.ture.l rendering here. There is nothing quent in classical Greek. The word seems abont "long abstinence" in the text, nor does to mark that the se.ori.fice was very great, the verb i,,ra.pxo,',(TTJs e.dmit of being trans• implying a very pressing danger. The le.ted "when they he.d been." It describes a tackling ( ·dw ,,,,,.,fw). There is great differ- present condition. The litere.l rendering is, ence of opinion BJ! to what the u,c•vfi means when there was a great (or, goneral) loss o/ here. Smith thinks the me.in spe.r is meant, appetif,e e.mong the crew. The terror, the "the hnge me.inyard," e.nd Fe.rre.r adopts discomfort, the sea-sickness, the constant hie view, which he thinks is strengthened pressure of danger and labour, the difficulty by the use of the aorist lf,pi,J,a.µ.•v (for he of cooking, the unpe.latobleness of the food, adopts the T.R.), implying one single act, combined to take e.we.y relish of their food, e.nd showing, by the use of the first person, o.nd they were becoming wee.k for want of tliat it was the act of the whole crew united. nourishment. Kave gotten (1<Ep1i,)tra.1). Alford thinks the.tit mee.ns e.ll the furniture, Schleusner, Bengel, Meyer, Alford, e.nd the beds, e.nd movables of e.11 kinds, e.nd so • Speo.ker's Commentary ' explain this e.s Wordsworth o.nd Meyer. Wetstein exple.ins equive.Ient to "have a.voided," or "he.ve it of the passengel'I!' baggage. Howson escaped," e.nd quote Josephus (' Ant. Jnd.,' thinks it nnlikely they would have thrown ii. iii. 2), Tb ,.,a.v9,jva., 'l'IIS x•i'pa.s 1«p1ia.{11<111, e.we.y e. great spe.r which would have sup- " To avoid staining their he.nds ; " e.nd port.ad twenty or thirty men in the we.ter in • Bell. Jud.,' ii. xvi. 4 (towards the olose of t.l.ie e~ent of tl.ie ship foundering. Schleusner Agrippa's speech), T,jr ~'T'l'71S 611<11/os ,c•p1i-fi• renders it "appe.re.tus quo no.vis ere.t in- ,,..,.,," You will gain (i.e. avoid) the disgrace structe.." 2,c•vfi is not used elsewhere in the of defeat," like the use in Lotin of lucrifacere. New Testament, e.nd it is di.flicult to speak But it is simpler on the whole to understand dc:ci.,ively. But the addition of .-oii ,r>,.0{011, it in the sense of "getting" as the fruit of and the general use of tr1<E11ii in cle.ssica.l your own conduct. We should say in Greek favours the interprebtion "the ship's English, " What have you gained by this furniture " ( " meubles et ustensiles," Nothing but loss and shame." Compo.re too Rene.n). the phre.se Ta. o,j,C:,v,a. Tlir a.µ.ap.-(a.s 9dva..-os Ver. 20.-8/lfffUJ upon u, / or many day, (Rom. vi. 23). So Liddell e.nd Scott give us for in many days appeared, A.V.; now for one use of 1C<p1ia.l11•111, to gain a loss, i.e. reap thefl, A. V. Neither BDll nor stars, etc. disadvantage, and quote from Euripides, Thie is mentioned, not only e.s a feature of • Hecuba,' l 518 (516, Scholefield), 11,,..xa the 11everity e.nd length of the easterly gale 1ia1<p11a. 1<Ep1iii11a,, "to go.in double weeping." (for the wind had shifted two or three points Injury (Mp111); seever. 10,note. In the A.V, to the east), but epecie.U y because in the "to have gained " observe the ee.me idiom navigation of that time, before the invention e.s in ver. 10, "e.nd there to winter." of the oomplllll!, the nn, moon, e.nd stars Ver. 22.-Li/e for any man', life, A.V.; were the only things they had to steer by, but '1fll11 for but, A. V. I exhort ;rou to be  ott, xxvn. 1-44.] THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES.