The Pulpit Commentary — Acts — Volume 2 — Section 290

of good oheer. Mr. Hobart remarks that Ver. 27.-To and fro for vp and doum this "!ms all the look of a dootor's expres- A.V. ; thB ,ea of Adria for Adria, A.V. ; sion, 1rapaw•iv being the term for a physician sailor, for shipmen, A. V.; 1urmi1ed for tkemed, giving his advice," o.nd ",~Ouµ.os, •b6uµ.iiv, A.V.; were drawing for drew, A. V. The nn,l ,Muµws being used in mediool languoge fourteenth night, reckoned from their leavin~ in reforenoe to the sick keeping up their Fair Havens (so vers. 18, 19). Driven to and spirits, o.s opposed to a.Ouµ.la and Buu6vµ.la." fro (B,a<p•poµ.lvc,w); it is rather carried across, (see ver. 25, note). Loas; li.1rofJo}>..11, only or along, from one end to the other. Sea of here and Rom. xi. 15; but found in Pio.to, Adria. Adria, as in the A.V., is se&rcely cor- Aristotle, Josephus, Plutorch, etc. Mark rect, o.s e. translation of the Greek (though how the message of mercy and love follows the Le.tins did call it Adria), beoo.use the the chastisement and its fruit of self-humi- nominative case in Greek is 6 'Aopias, sc. liation. In their prosperity and self-confi- 1t&7',.1ro1, .A.drias, the Adriatic Gnlf. 'Alipla is dence they rejected Paul's word at Fair the no.me of the town near the mouth of the ffovene; they listen to it at death's door. Po, which ga.ve its name to the .Adriatic. Ver. 23.-.A.n angel of the God whose I As regards the nao of term 6 'Alipiar, the, am, whom al8o for the angel of God, whose Adriatic, it is used in two ways: sometimes I am, and whom, A.V. and T.R. Observe strictly of the Gulf of Venice, the Adriatic; Paul's open confession of God before the sometimes, chiefly in latter writers, in a. heathen crew. much wider sense, of the whole sea between Ver. 24.-Stand for be brought, A.V.; Greece and Italy, including Sicily. This granted for given, A.V. Stand; 1rapa.11Trjva,, le.et is its nee here. So, too, Josephus says the proper word for standing before a judge ; that he was wrecked 1<aT~ µ.,uov -rov 'Alip{av, comp. Rom. xiv. 10, ml.nu 1ra.pa.un1u6µ.,6a in the midst of the Adriatic, on his voyao-e -rrp flr1µ.a.-ri Toii Xp,u..-oii: and in the subscrip- from Cmsaree. to Puteoli, and was picked {;'p tion to the Second Epistle to Timothy it is by II ship from Cyrenc. This implies that said that it wo.s written "when Paul was he naed the word "Adria" in the same senso brought before Nero the second time" as St. Luke does (see further the appendi:,; (Greek, IJ-re '" B•u-rlpou 1raplu-r71 na.iiAos -rrji v. and vi. in Smith's • Voyage,' etc.; Cony- Ka(<Tap,). God bath granted, etc. Doubtless beare a.nd Howson, p. 3'13, note, e.nd p. 356 ; in answer to his prayers. Compare the oppo- Lewin, vol. ii. p. 198, note; Farrar, vol. iL site statement in Ezek. xiv. 14, 16, 18, 20, p. 377, note; Renan, 'St. Paul,' p. 5J2). "Though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, Snrmised that they were drawing near. they shall deliver neither sone nor daughters; Probably from bee.ring the waves break- they only shall be delivered themselves;" ing upon the Point of Koura, east of St. and see also Gen. xvili. 26, 32. Paul's Paul's Bay. 'Twovo,'w is only found in the calm courage and kind words, added to the Acts (eh. xiii 25; xxv. 18; and here); but proof they had of his prescient wisdom, it is used three or four times in the LXX. were well calculated to inspire the crew (Daniel, Joh, Judith, Sirach ), a.nd is common with a reverential trust in him, and to in clo.ssioal Greek in the sense of to " sus- rekindle their extinguished hope. pect," "conjecture," "gness at" any thin" Ver. 25.-Even so for even, A.V.; hath (see lnrovoia, 1 Tim. vi. 4). Were drawing been apoken unto me for was told me, A. V. near, etc.; literally, that some country (or, Be of good oheer ; ,b6uµii-re, as ver. 22 ; land) was drawing near to them. In like elsewhere only Jae. v. 13, but we have me.nner, the land is said iivax01p<w, to receJ.e, ,IJ6uµ.os in ver. 36 and oh. xxiv. 10; common as the vessel gets out to sea. in olassico.l Greek and in medical language Ver. 28.-Tlieysounded for sounded, A. V.; (see ver. 22, note). Note how the servant of found for found it, A.V. (twiceJ; after a God has the light of hope and trnst iC1 the little ,pace for whBT& they had gone a little darkest night of danger and suffering (Ps. further, A.V. After a little space (13P"X/, cxii. 4, 7 ; xlvi. 1-3). It shall be even so, 61rt.0Tf/1Tav-rn); literally, haTJing interpoBed a etc. Compare for the lesson of faith in short interval of time or space (comp. Luke God's promise, Luke i. 45, "There shall be xxii. 58, 59, µnm /3paxJ, l<,T.A.., and theu o. performa.noe of those things which were follows 61<l1T-rau11s ,:,,,.,. &pas µ.,iis "after o.n told her from the Lord." " Lord, increase interval of about an hour''). our faith." Ver. 29.-And for then, A.V.; leat haply Ver. 26.-We must be oast, etc. (ltc1r•u•w, for lest, A. V. ; be cast ashore on rocky ground. ver. 17, note). Here St. Paul speaks dis- for haTJe falle11 upon rocks, A.V.; let go for tinctly by revelation, probably what was cast, A.V.; from for out of, A.V. Cast told him by the angel. We can see the ashore (see ver. 17, note). Rooky grou.nd same purpose here as in all miracles and (-rpax••• -rowour); Luke iii. 5. 'l'he region o( prophetic utterances, viz. to give God's Trachonitis wo.s so called from thl:l rocky credentials to his ambBBsador as speaking in nature of the oountry-liKT71 ..-paxe,a., a. rocky biBNameand by hisauthoritv (John u. 81). shore. Four anchors, "Naves quaternia  TIIE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. (011. xxvn.1-44.