Acts 27:24. Fear not, Paul. It is a natural inference from these words that St. Paul himself had been experiencing fear. That he was not a stranger to fear, is evident from chap, Acts 18:9. Nor is he ashamed to own this in his letters.

God hath given thee all them that sail with thee. This seems to show that he had been engaged not only in prayer, but in intercessory prayer. Compare the language in Philemon 1:22. The exclamation ι ̓ δου ̀ in the passage before us appears to denote something unexpected.

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