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When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band. See also: Acts 25:25Acts 25:12Acts 10:1Embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to places on the coast of Asia, we put to sea, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica being with us. See also: Acts 19:29Colossians 4:10Philemon 1:24The next day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself. See also: Acts 24:23Acts 28:16Acts 27:43Putting to sea from there, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were contrary. See also: Acts 4:36Mark 6:48Acts 13:4When we had sailed across the sea which is off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia. See also: Acts 6:9Acts 13:13Acts 15:23There the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy, and he put us on board. See also: Acts 28:11Acts 27:1Acts 6:9When we had sailed slowly many days, and had come with difficulty opposite Cnidus, the wind not allowing us further, we sailed under the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone. See also: Acts 27:21Titus 1:12Acts 27:12-13With difficulty sailing along it we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near the city of Lasea. When much time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous because the Fast had now already gone by, Paul admonished them See also: Numbers 29:7Leviticus 23:27-29Leviticus 16:29-31and said to them, “Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.” See also: Amos 3:7Daniel 2:30Acts 27:20-26But the centurion gave more heed to the master and to the owner of the ship than to those things which were spoken by Paul. See also: Ezekiel 33:4Hebrews 11:7Ezekiel 3:17-18Because the haven was not suitable to winter in, the majority advised going to sea from there, if by any means they could reach Phoenix and winter there, which is a port of Crete, looking southwest and northwest. See also: Acts 27:8Psalms 107:30When the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close to shore. See also: Luke 12:55Song of Songs 4:16Job 37:17But before long, a stormy wind beat down from shore, which is called Euroclydon. See also: Mark 4:37Psalms 107:25-27Ezekiel 27:26When the ship was caught and couldn’t face the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along. See also: James 3:4Acts 27:27Running under the lee of a small island called Clauda, we were able, with difficulty, to secure the boat. After they had hoisted it up, they used cables to help reinforce the ship. Fearing that they would run aground on the Syrtis sand bars, they lowered the sea anchor, and so were driven along. See also: Acts 27:29Acts 27:26Acts 27:41As we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw things overboard. See also: Jonah 1:5Acts 27:38Hebrews 12:1On the third day, they threw out the ship’s tackle with their own hands. See also: Job 2:4Mark 8:35-37Jonah 1:5When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small storm pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away. See also: Matthew 24:29Matthew 8:24-25Jeremiah 2:25When they had been long without food, Paul stood up in the middle of them and said, “Sirs, you should have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete and have gotten this injury and loss. See also: Genesis 42:22Psalms 107:5-6Acts 27:33-35Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship. See also: Acts 27:25Acts 27:36Isaiah 43:1-2For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve, See also: Acts 23:112 Timothy 4:17Romans 1:9saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’ See also: Acts 23:112 Timothy 4:16-17Matthew 10:28Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me. See also: Romans 4:20-21Luke 1:45Numbers 23:19But we must run aground on a certain island.” See also: Acts 28:1Acts 27:17Acts 27:29But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land. See also: Jonah 1:6Revelation 18:171 Kings 9:27They took soundings and found twenty fathoms. After a little while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms. Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight. See also: Acts 27:17Hebrews 6:19Deuteronomy 28:67As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow, See also: Acts 27:16Acts 27:32Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, “Unless these stay in the ship, you can’t be saved.” See also: 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14Jeremiah 29:11-13Psalms 91:11-12Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat and let it fall off. See also: Philippians 3:7-9Luke 16:8While the day was coming on, Paul begged them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing. Therefore I beg you to take some food, for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads.” See also: Matthew 10:301 Kings 1:52Luke 21:18When he had said this and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all; then he broke it and began to eat. See also: Matthew 15:362 Timothy 1:81 Corinthians 10:30-31Then they all cheered up, and they also took food. See also: 2 Corinthians 1:4-6Psalms 27:14Acts 27:22In all, we were two hundred seventy-six souls on the ship. See also: Acts 2:41Romans 13:11 Peter 3:20When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea. See also: Matthew 6:25Jonah 1:5Matthew 16:26When it was day, they didn’t recognize the land, but they noticed a certain bay with a beach, and they decided to try to drive the ship onto it. See also: Acts 28:1Casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time untying the rudder ropes. Hoisting up the foresail to the wind, they made for the beach. See also: Isaiah 33:23Acts 27:29-30But coming to a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground. The bow struck and remained immovable, but the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves. See also: Ezekiel 27:262 Corinthians 11:25-26Ezekiel 27:34The soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape. See also: Luke 23:40-41Mark 15:15-20Acts 12:19But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land; See also: Acts 27:3Proverbs 16:7Acts 23:24and the rest should follow, some on planks and some on other things from the ship. So they all escaped safely to the land. See also: Acts 27:22Psalms 107:28-30Acts 27:24
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Acts 27:2
Ver. 2. Adrumetum. In the Greek, Adrametum, which seems to be the best reading: the former was in Africa, the latter in Asia; and the ship was to make for the coasts of Asia and not those of Africa. — Being about to sail[1] by the coast of Asia. Lit. beginning to sail; the sense can only be designing to sail that way, as appears also by the Greek. Wi.
↑ 2Acts 27:4
Ver. 4. We sailed under Cyprus. That is, north of Cyprus, betwixt the coasts of Cilicia and Cyprus, leaving it on our left, instead of leaving it on our right hand.
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↑ 4Acts 27:7
Ver. 7. We sailed hard by Crete, now Candia, near by Salmone, sailing betwixt them. Wi.
↑ 7Acts 27:8
Ver. 8. Called Good-havens, a port on the east part of Crete, near the city of Thalassa, in the Greek text Lasea. Wi.
↑ 8Acts 27:9
Ver. 9. The fast was now past.[2] An annual fast. Some take it for the fast of the Ember-days, which Christians keep in December: but S. Chrys. and others expound it of the Jewish fast of expiation, in their seventh month, Tisri, answering to our September or October. Wi. — Most interpreters understand this of the solemn fast of expiation, mentioned in Leviticus (xvi. 29. and xxiii.
27.) which fell about the end of September and beginning of October. At this time sailing on the Mediterranean is dangerous. Though this phrase is at present obscure to us, we must recollect that S. Luke was writing for Christians, who being for the most part converted Jews, easily understood the expression. Calmet.
↑ 9Acts 27:10
Ver. 10. Ye men, I see, &c. This S. Paul foretells as a prophet. Wi.
↑ 10Acts 27:12
Ver. 12. Phœnice, on the south part of Crete, a convenient haven to ride safe in, lying by south-west and north-west. Wi.
↑ 12Acts 27:14
Ver. 14. Called Euroaquilo.[3] In the Prot. translation, Euroclydon, as in many Greek copies. In others Euraculon, which Dr. Wells prefers. Wi.
↑ 14Acts 27:16
Ver. 16. An island that is called Cauda. In some Greek copies Clauda, which the Prot. have followed; in others Caudos. — We had much work to come by the boat, or to hoist up the skiff belonging to the ship; which we did, lest it should be broken to pieces by the wind against the ship, or separated from it. Wi.
↑ 16Acts 27:17
Ver. 17. The used helps, under-girding the ship.[4] Perhaps bracing or binding about the vessel with ropes or chains, lest she should be torn asunder. — Into the quick-sands. Lit. into a syritis, such as are on the coasts of Africa, whither now they were almost driven. — The let down the sail-yard.[5] This seems to be the sense of these words letting down the vessel. Some translate striking the sail; but others think they were in apprehension for the mainmast. Wi.
↑ 17Acts 27:18
Ver. 18. They lightened the ship by throwing overboard part of their loading and goods. Some call it, they made the jetsam. Wi.
↑ 18Acts 27:19
Ver. 19. The tacking, or furniture of the ship that they could spare; others express it, they threw out the lagam. Wi.
↑ 19Acts 27:21
Ver. 21. Not . . . have saved this harm and loss, which you have brought upon you by not following my advice. Wi. — All the company being in consternation and hourly expectation of death, did not think of taking meat. For it appears they did not want provisions, and nothing else forced them to fast. Calmet. —
The mildness of S. Paul's address to them on this occasion is admirable. He mixes no severe rebuke for their past want of confidence in his words, but seems only solicitous for their future belief. In telling them that none of them should perish, he does not utter a mere conjecture, but speaks with prophetic knowledge; and, if he says they were all given to him, it was not to enhance his own merit, but to engage their faith and confidence in his veracity. S. Chrys.
Act. hom. lii.
↑ 21Acts 27:23
Ver. 23. An Angel of God. Lit. of the God whose I am; that is, whose servant I am. Wi.
↑ 23Acts 27:24
Ver. 24. God hath given thee all them; that is, the true God, maker and master of all things. It is sometimes a great happiness to be in the company of the saints, who by their prayers to God, help us. Wi. — S. Paul prayed that all in the vessel with him might be saved; and an angel was sent to assure him his prayer was heard. If such was the merit of the apostle whilst yet in this mortal body, that the Almighty, in consideration of it, granted the lives of 276 persons, what do you think, will be his interest before God, now that he is glorious in heaven? S. Jerom contra Vigilant.
↑ 24Acts 27:27
Ver. 27. In the Adria. Not in what we call the Adriatic gulf, or sea of Venice, but that which lies betwixt Peloponnesus, Sicily, and Italy. Wi.
↑ 27Acts 27:30
Ver. 30. The ship-men . . . having let down the boat into the sea; that is, had begun to let it down with ropes, &c. Wi.
↑ 30Acts 27:31
Ver. 31. Paul said . . . unless these stay. Providence had ordered that all should escape, but by helping one another. Wi.
↑ 31Acts 27:33
Ver. 33. Taking nothing. That is, without taking a full meal, but only a morsel now and then, and nothing to speak of. Wi. — Though S. Chrysostom understands these words in their full rigour, and therefore supposes them to have been supported by a miracle; yet is is not requisite to adhere to the severity of these words in the interpretation of them. Not having had time to prepare any regular meal during that time, they may justly be said to have taken nothing, though they had occasionally eaten a little now and then to support nature. Such exaggerations in discourse are common. Interpretes passim.
↑ 33Acts 27:40
Ver. 40. Loosing also the rudderbands. Some ships are said heretofore to have had two rudders: and this ship perhaps had two, unless here the plural number be put for the singular, which is not uncommon in the style of the Scriptures. — And hoisting up the main-sail. The word in the text may signify any sail, either the main, or mizen-sail, which latter by the event was more than sufficient. Wi.
↑ 40Acts 27:41
Ver. 41. Into a place where two seas met.[6] It happened that there was a neck or tongue of land, which being covered with the waves, they who were strangers to the coast did not discover: this stranded the ship, the prow sticking fast, and the poop being torn from it, so that the vessel split by the violence of the winds and sea. Wi.
↑ 41Acts 27:44
Ver. 44. The rest . . . they carried on planks. That is, let them be carried on planks; and all got safe to land, in the number two hundred and seventy-six souls, or persons. Wi.
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[1] V. 2. Incipientes navigare, mellontes plein, navigaturi.
[2] V. 9. Jejunium præteriisset S. Chrys. om ig. nesteian ten ioudaion.
[3] V. 14. Euroaquilo, eurokludon. Dr. Wells prefers the reading of eurakulon.
[4] V. 17. Accingentes navem, upozonuntes to ploion, bracing the ship with something.
[5] V. 17. Submisso vase, chalasantes to skeuos. The word skeuos, has many significations, and may be taken for the ship, or any part of it: here it may signify the main-mast, which they might take down, lest it should be torn away.
[6] V. 41. In locum dithalassum, eis topon dithalasson.
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↑ 44License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses