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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 27:37

That is, so many persons; as Acts 2:41; Acts 7:14; Romans 13:1; the soul being the noblest part, and the body following its condition, whatsoever it be: if the soul be holy, the body shall be glorious. But it is not so on the other side: the soul is not hereafter as the body is here; for Dives’s body fared well, was fed and arrayed sumptuously, and yet his soul was miserably tormented, Luke 16:19,Luke 16:24. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 27:38

Cast out the wheat, the provision they had for their sustenance. This is the third time that they lightened the ship, being willing that all their goods should perish for them, rather than with them. Or these heathens were so far persuaded by St. Paul, that they ventured their lives upon the credit of what he had foretold them; and parted with their food, and all they had to live upon, only upon his word, that they should want them in the ship no more. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 27:39

They knew not the land; in so long and violent a tempest, thinking every moment to be swallowed up, they could keep no reckoning of the ship’s running or way; neither were charts or maps so usual (if they had any at all) in those times. A certain creek; a bay, or bosom of the sea, having land on each side, where they judged it most likely for them to get on shore; using still all means for their safety. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 27:40

Loosed the rudder bands; rudders is in the plural number put for the singular: or rather, in those times they having two rudders, (as by several passages amongst the ancients do appear), they were both loosed, that now they might use them to direct the ship to the best advantage in making the shore, they having been tied whilst they were adrift, or at anchor. Hoised up the mainsail, which they had let down, or struck, Acts 27:17, and now, that they might make some use of the winds, to get... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 27:41

A place where two seas met; a shoal, sand or isthmus, where the sea was on both sides of it. They were now in the greatest extremity; and God suffers them to fall into it before he sends them deliverance, that he might have the more glory by it. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 27:42

This speaks their great ingratitude, that they would take away Paul’s life, who had preserved theirs. But Christ’s apostles and ministers must not look for their reward in this life; though men cannot, or do not, recompense them, they shall be recompensed at the resurrection of the just, Luke 14:14. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 27:43

The centurion, willing to save Paul; because Paul was a Roman citizen, whose death he durst not be accessory unto. It may be also, that this centurion, (if there were no more), as the Samaritan that was cleansed, did this in thankfulness unto Paul. Should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land; that they might be helpful to others in getting on shore. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Acts 27:27-37

CRITICAL REMARKSActs 27:27. The fourteenth night dated from the rising of the gale, which occurred soon after leaving the Fair Havens. The Sea of Adria.—See “Homiletical Analysis.” Though applied to the sea between Greece and Italy, it also embraced the ocean waters around Sicily and as far south as the coast of Africa. The country towards which the ship drifted was not the island of Meleda near the Dalmatian coast, but that of Malta, south of Sicily, so that the course of drifting was... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Acts 27:37-44

CRITICAL REMARKSActs 27:38. They lightened the ship.—For the third time (see Acts 27:18-19). Either because of its sinking condition, or because they wished it to get nearer shore. What they threw out was the wheat, τὸν σῖτον. Either (1) the ship’s provisions (Alford, Plumptre, Holtzmann, Hausrath) which were now no longer needed—against this has been urged that by this time these must have been so reduced as to make little difference to the load (Smith), though it must not be overlooked that... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Acts 27:24-34

Acts 27:24-34 I. God judged that St. Paul was concerned with the lives of the crew of the ship he sailed in, and gave these men their lives as a precious gift. Here we have what may be called the head and the feet of the same truth: the head God's estimate of the value of life; the feet man's estimate of the contempt deserved by any one who, being strong, uses his strength to benefit himself at the expense of his neighbour. The value of life on the one hand, and on the other the meanness of... read more

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 27:37

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 27:38

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 27:39

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 27:40

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 27:41

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 27:42

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 27:43

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Acts 27:27-37

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Acts 27:37-44

Sermon Bible Commentary - Acts 27:24-34

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