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Acts 27:33
And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take me at, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.
And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take me at, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.
Verse 33. _WHILE THE DAY WAS COINING ON_] It was then apparently about day-break. _THIS DAY IS THE FOURTEENTH DAY THAT YE HAVE - CONTINUED FASTING_] Ye have not had one _regular meal_ for these fourt...
AND WHILE THE DAY WAS COMING ON - At daybreak. It was before they had sufficient light to discern what they should do. TO TAKE MEAT - Food. The word “meat” was formerly used to denote “food” of any k...
CHAPTER 27 _ 1. From Caesarea to Fair Havens (Acts 27:1)._ 2. The Unheeded Warning. The Storm. Paul's Vision and Assurance of Safety (Acts 27:9). 3. The Shipwreck (Acts 27:27). Much has been writte...
LANDING ON MALTA.Adria was not then what is now called the Adriatic, but was a general name for the sea between Malta, Italy, Greece, and Crete. After a fortnight's tossing on this sea there were sign...
THE LAST JOURNEY BEGINS (Acts 27:1-8)...
When the fourteenth night came and we were drifting across in the Adriatic, in the middle of the night the sailors suspected that some land was approaching them. They took a sounding and found twenty...
BESOUGHT. was entreating. Greek. _parakaleo._ App-134. TAKE. Greek. _metalambano._ See Acts 2:46. MEAT. food, or nourishment. Greek. _trophe._ THIS DAY, &C. Literally Tarrying (or waiting) to-day,...
_while the day was coming on_ Before it was light enough to see what had best be done. Here again we may notice how every means was to be employed for safety. Paul urges them to take now a proper meal...
ἌΧΡΙ ΔῈ ΟὟ ἩΜΈΡΑ ἬΜΕΛΛΕΝ ΓΊΝΕΣΘΑΙ, _and while the day was coming on_, i.e. before it was light enough to see what had best be done. Here again we may notice how every means was to be employed for safe...
ST PAUL’S VOYAGE AND SHIPWRECK...
_ ENCOURAGEMENT FROM GOD ACTS 27:21-38:_ They ate nothing for many days. Afterward Paul stood and told them that they should have listened to him and not sailed._ _ He also revealed to them that God h...
ΆΧΡΙ ΟΎ пока не; здесь с _impf._: "пока не наступит день"; то есть "до рассвета" (Haenchen; BD, 193). ΉΜΕΛΛΕΝ _impf. ind. act., см._ Acts 27:2. ΓΊΝΕΣΘΑΙ _praes. med. (dep.) inf., см._ Acts 27:7. ΠΑ...
THIS DAY IS THE FOURTEENTH, &C.— _This is the fourteenth day that, waiting for some favourable change, ye have continued fasting, and not taken one meal._ Heylin. Comp. Matthew 11:18. Appian speaks of...
LANDING ON MELITA. Acts 27:28-44. Acts 27:28 and they sounded, and found twenty fathoms; and after a little space, they sounded again, and found fifteen fathoms. Acts 27:29 And fearing lest haply w...
33-36. In a time of extreme danger like the present, a man who is able to maintain complete self-possession has great control over those who are alarmed. Paul had already displayed his coolness and wa...
And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing. And while the day was co...
11 Anciently the steersman, or helmsman, or pilot, was captain of the ship, but his duties in larger vessels corresponds to our navigator. The man who chartered the ship traveled as his own supercargo...
THE VOYAGE AND SHIPWRECK Acts 27:1 to Acts 28:16. The Journey to Rome. This narrative is the most detailed account of an ancient voyage which we possess, and is our principal source of knowledge of t...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 27 PAUL BEGINS HIS JOURNEY TO ROME, 27:1-12 V1 It was time for us to go to Rome. They handed Paul and some other prisoners over to Captain Juli...
PAUL BESOUGHT THEM ALL TO TAKE MEAT. — Better, _to take food;_ and so in the next verse. Once again the practical insight of the Apostle — yet more, perhaps, his kindly human sympathy — comes prominen...
ἄχρι δὲ οὐ : only used by Luke in the historical books of the N.T., _cf._ Luke 21:24; Acts 7:18; in St. Paul's Epistles three or four times, Hebrews 3:13; Reve
SAFETY DEPENDENT ON OBEDIENCE Acts 27:27 Paul presents a noble picture, standing there in the gray dawn while the heavy seas are breaking over the ship. He seems to have become by force of character...
The study of Paul's last voyage reveals some apparently contradictory facts, and yet common in the experience of the saints. On the one hand, difficulties and dangers multiplied. On the other, the div...
Troubles Seas When a soft, south wind began to blow, it was assumed they could easily reach Phoenix within a day, so they set sail. Apparently, they made good headway as they travelled along close to...
(10) And while the day was coming on, Paul besought [them] all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing. (10) When the wor...
Taking nothing. That is, without taking a full meal, but only a morsel now and then, and nothing to speak of. (Witham) --- Though St. John Chrysostom understands these words in their full rigour, and...
But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country; (28) And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: an...
The closing Chapter s from 21 to the end of the book are devoted to an episode full of interest and profit Paul's course from Jerusalem to Rome. And here we find ourselves in an atmosphere considerabl...
− 33._And when the day began. _Whatsoever the mariners think, Paul’s faith doth not quail; − (648) but he leaneth steadfastly to the promise which was made to him. For he doth not only exhort them to...
His innocence fully established and acknowledged by his judges, the purposes of God must still be accomplished. His appeal to Caesar must carry him to Rome, that he may bear testimony there also. In h...
AND WHILE THE DAY WAS COMING ON,.... Between midnight and break of day: Paul besought them all to take meat; to sit down and eat a meal together: SAYING, THIS DAY IS THE FOURTEENTH DAY THAT YE HAVE T...
And while the day was coming on, Paul besought _them_ all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing. Ver. 33. _Having taken...
_While the day was coming on_ Before they had light sufficient to discern what they should do; _Paul besought them all to take meat_ To take some refreshment; _saying, This is the fourteenth day that...
TAKEN NOTHING; no regular meals, or very little....
The journey to Rome has been seen as a striking picture of the history of the church publicly in its earlier years, with its rapid decline and eventual shipwreck. Paul is on board, but a prisoner, ind...
AND AS DAY WAS ABOUT TO DAWN, PAUL IMPLORED THEM ALL TO TAKE FOOD, SAYING, " TODAY IS THE FOURTEENTH DAY YOU HAVE WAITING AND CONTINUED WITH OUT FOOD, AND EATEN NOTHING. 34 Therefore I urge you to ta...
Acts 27:33-34 This verse reveals what the last 14 days had been like. That had been 14 days of sleeplessness, constant watching, and going without eating. Paul now encourages everyone to eat, for they...
30-38 God, who appointed the end, that they should be saved, appointed the means, that they should be saved by the help of these shipmen. Duty is ours, events are God's; we do not trust God, but temp...
WHILE THE DAY WAS COMING ON; all the night after the mariners were disappointed in their project to escape. So hard a matter it was to abate their fear of being presently destroyed; and so great influ...
33-36. In a time of extreme danger like the present, a man who is able to maintain complete self-possession has great control over those who are alarmed. Paul had already displayed his coolness and wa...
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‘And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take some food, saying, “This day is the fourteenth day that you wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing. Wherefore I beseech you to...
A SERIES OF MARITIME STAGES AND EXAMPLES OF PROPHECY (ACTS 27:10; ACTS 27:21) ON THE WAY TO ROME (27.L-26). This series of ‘maritime stages' on a voyage parallels that in Acts 21:1. That one led up to...
_Waiting for the Day St. Paul's Exhortation A hearty Meal taken by all on boardOn his Advice, Cargo thrown overboard,_ 33 - 38. Acts 27:33. PAUL BESOUGHT THEM ALL. A better translation would be that h...
WHILE THE DAY WAS COMING ON (αχρ ου ημερα ημελλεν γινεσθα). More likely here αχρ ου (for αχρ τουτου ω) with the imperfect ημελλεν, has its usual meaning, "until which time day was about to come on ...
Acts 27:24 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 an...
Paul had advised the captain not to set sail for a while, Acts 27:11. Nevertheless the centurion believed the master and the owner of the ship, more than those things, which were spoken by Paul. And...
CONTENTS: Paul sent to Rome. The hurricane. God's assurance to Paul in the storm, and his safe landing. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, Julius, centurion, angel, Caesar. CONCLUSION: Worldly men insist...
Acts 27:2. _Adramyttium,_ a town of Egypt, at the eastern mouth of the Nile; also a town of Mysia of the same name, where the ship touched. _One Aristarchus, a Macedonian, being with us._ The numeral...
PAUL BEGGED THEM ALL TO EAT SOME FOOD. He seems to have taken charge of things in this crisis. They had eaten nothing for a long time (Acts 27:21), and were weak from hunger. NOT EVEN A HAIR OF YOUR H...
_Then the soldiers cut off the ropes._ PRECAUTIONS 1. By casting off the boat--the apparent means of safety--true safety in this case was secured. Thus many a soul is saved by giving up what it may...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 27:33 The rescue was to begin at daybreak, and everyone needed food for strength. ⇐ ⇔...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 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 t...
EXPOSITION ACTS 27:1 For, for _into, _A.V.;_ to a centurion named Julius of the Augustan band _for unto _one named Julius, a centurion of Augustus_'_ band, _A.V. THAT WE SHOULD SAIL. Observe the "we,...
When it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto one named Julius, a centurion of Augustus' band (Acts 27:1). So Julius is another Roman cent...
Acts 27:27; Acts 27:29...
While the day was coming on [α χ ρ ι δ ε ο υ ε μ ε λ λ ε ν η μ ε ρ α γ ι ν ε σ θ α ι]. Lit., until it should become day : in the interval between midnight and morning....
Ye continue fasting, having taken nothing — No regular meal, through a deep sense of their extreme danger. Let us not wonder then, if men who have a deep sense of their extreme danger of everlasting d...
Observe here, 1. What honour God put upon the holy apostle: although he was. poor prisoner in chains, yet God made him the only counsellor and comforter unto all that were in the ship. First, he advi...