Acts 27:10 - Exposition

The, for this, A.V.; injury for hurt, A.V.; loss for damage, A.V.; the ship for ship, A.V. Sirs, I perceive ; etc. St. Paul's opinion and reasons are evidently not fully given; only the result, that he strongly advised against the course to which they were inclined, and foretold disaster as likely to ensue from it. I perceive ( θεωρῷ ), as John 4:19 ; John 12:19 ; Acts 17:22 . In all these places something actually seen or heard leads to the inference or conclusion stated. So here the angry state of the weather and of the sea—perhaps they had walked as far as Cape Matala, and seen the rough waves—convinced him of the rashness of the enterprise contemplated. Injury ( ὕβρεως , and at Acts 17:21 ); literally, violence, rough usage— properly of persons to persons (as 2 Corinthians 12:10 ), but metaphorically here transferred to inanimate objects. Compare the use of ὑβρίζω ( Matthew 22:6 ; Luke 18:32 ; Acts 14:5 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:2 ), and the phrases ναυσίστονον ὕβριν (Pindar), θαλάττης ὕβριν (Anthol.), ὀμβρῶν ὕβρις (Josephus), quoted in Kninoel and Meyer. Meyer's explanation of ὕβρις , as meaning "presumption" or "temerity" on the part of the navigators, is quite inadmissible, especially in view of Acts 17:21 . Also of our lives . Observe the thorough honesty of the historian who thus records the words of the apostle, though they were not justified by the event ( Acts 17:22 , Acts 17:24 ).