But artimon wits till rooently used in Venice By the violenoe. The R.T. omits the worde and Genoa 11B the ne.me of the le.rge Be.ii -rcil11 1<vµd.-r"'"• e.nd so he.a /3(11, alone, some• of e vessel. In the Middle Ages a,rt;,. what like fl/3p,r in ver. 21. .,,onium we.e the "foreme.st," mdt de prove • Ver. 42.-The eoldien' ooun■el, eto. The but it was al~n used of the fores&il, "Vein~ same stem sense of duty in the Roman Tin¥is breve, quncl quie. melius levari potest, soldier as moved the keeper of the jail e.t in summo perkulo e1:te-nditur" (Duoange). Philippi to destroy himself when he thought 'l'hey hoisted the loreBe.il both to give them his prisoners he.cl escaped (eh. xvi. 27). The sufficient way to run on to the bellOh and to prisonen; by which we learn, as also in ver. 1, give precision to their steering. (F~r a fur- that there were other prisoners beeide Paul ther e.oooUDt of the l,.p-rEµ,J,11, or forese.il, see going to be tried before Croear at Rome Smith, of Jordan Hill.) (comp. Josephue'e acoount (' Life,' seot. 8) of Ver. 41.-But lighting up071 for and faU- certain priests, friends of hie, who were sent i11g into, A.V.; ,,essel for ship, A.V.; fore- 11B prisoners to Rome, to be tried). Swim ~hip for forepart, A.V.; Btnuik for stuck fast, out; /,c,co>..vµf3d..,, only here, but not uncom- A.V.; stem for hinder part, A.V.; began to mon in the Be.me sense in classioe.l Greek break up for was brciken tt!itl", A.V. Where (see next verse). Eaoape ; 11,a,i,,}yo,, peoulie.r two seas met ; -ro1ro11 li,8tV..41Ttro•, only here, to St. Luke here, but it is the oommon and in Dion Chrysostomus. The explana- medical word for a narrow escape from tion of this "place where two seas met" illness. is as follows :-As the ship stood at anchor Ver. 43.-Desiring for willing, A.V.; in the bay on tbe north-east side of the stayed for kept, A.V.; overboard, and get island, it would he.ve the Koura Point (Ras- first to the land for first into the sea, and get eJ-Kaura) on its left, and on entering deeper to land, A.V. To save Paul; li1atrii>tra1, and iuto the bay westward, the little island of ver. 44 and eh. xxviii 1, 4; a word of very So.lmonetta, or Selmoon, otherwise called frequent medical use, employed six times by Gzeier, would lie on its right, and St. Luke, but only twice elsewhere in the would appear to be part of the island of New Testament (Matt. xiv. 26; I Pet. iii. Malt.a, from which it is separated by 11, 20). Swim; 1<0>..vµt3d..,, here only in the narrow channel about a hundred yards in Bible; though ,co>..vµ/3fi8pa., properly e. swim- width. When, however, she was just com- ming-bath, rendered "pool" in the A.V., ing upon the beach for which she was mak- occurs five times in St. John's Goepel. ing, ahe would come opposite to this open The verb means "to dive" rather than "to channel, and the sea from the north would swim." Both the verb and the noun e.re break upon her and meet the sea on the nsed frequently in medical language for south side of the island, where the ship "swimming in a bo.tb,'' e.nd f,l1rn•• tr•avTb11 was. Here, then. they ran the vessel (like a.1ropf,l,r-re111 here) is the phrase f,.ir aground. 'E,r,1,,m>-a,,, or, llOCOrding to the jumping into the be.th. R.T., brl1mNJJ1, is only found here in the Ver. 44.-Planks for boarda, A.V.; other Bible; but it is the regular word for running things from for broken pieces of, A.V.; all a ship agronnd,or aahore, in classical writers. 611caped (lf,a,r.,8ij11a,) for escaped all, A.V.; 'E1ru,b,>v,, has exactly the same meaning. the land for land, A.V. Planks; ,r..,•ltr111, The simple verbs ,c,>vv,, e.nd ""'"""' a.re only here e.ud in the LXX. of 2 Kings xii, also both in use for running a ship to land. 9 (for the " lid" of the box) e.nd Cant. viii. The foreship stra.ck; lp.lua.tra., here only in 0 (for ••boards"); very common in Homer the Dible, but very common in cle.seical and other Greek writers, for " boards " and Greek. Its meaning here is not very " ple.nkll " of all kinds. They all esoaped. different from its frequent medical mean- In exact fulfilment of Paul's prediction in ing of a diselll!e " fixing itself" and ver. 22. And thus ended the eventful " settling " in some po.rticule.r part of the voyage of about four hnndred and eighty body. Remained unmovable. "A ship im- miles (e.s laid down in the cho.rts) from pelled by the force of a gale into e. creek Clauda to the Point of Koura on the north with e. bottom such as that laid down in coast of Malta. It is one of the striking Admiral Smyth'& cha.rt of St. Paul's Bay, proofd of the identity of Melita with Malta., wonld strike e. bottom of mud graduating the.t the rate at which it is calculated that into tene.cions clay, into which the forepe.rt a large ship laying to in a go.le would drift woultl fix it;;elf e.nd be held fo.st, whilst the in twenty-four hours, viz. thirty-six miles, stem was exposed to the force of the waves" multiplied by thirteen and e. hulf (the (Smith, p. H4). Unmuvable; a.tr~evror, only number of days occupied by the voyage), here e.nd Heh. xii. 28, in the Bible ; but gives four hundred e.nd eighty-six miles aa common in Greek writera in the ll6Il86 of the whole distance. 1 Smith thinks that "firm," "unmovu.ble." Bege.n to break up the coincidence between " the actual bear- (l>..6ETo, like •0!110 and diaaoleo in Latin). The planks were loosened and disjoino·d. 1 86 X ISl = 486. on, :uvn. 1-44.] THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. 301
ing or Bt. Paul's Bay from Oland", and the direction in which the ship must have I quarter we know it did, " ie, if poseible, still more striking" (pp. 127, 128). <!riven," with the wind blowing in the