The sailors (των ναυτων). Old word from ναυς (ship), in N.T. only here, verse 30; Revelation 18:17.

Were…

The shipmen. The sailors, leaving the prisoners.

Under colour. Under pretence. They pretended that it was necessary to get …

And as the shipmen were about to flee...—The hour of danger called out the natural instinct of self-preservation, to the exclusion…

These cowardly sailors meant to get away, and leave the prisoners and passengers and soldiers to perish.

Contrary to the best tradition of the sea, the sailors schemed to save themselves by lowering the dinghy (cf. vv.16–17) under cover of lowering som…

And as the mariners sought. The grace of the Holy Spirit appears in Paul, even in this point also, in that he wisely admonished that the m…

And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship
To save their lives, concluding that it was in the utmost dang…

God, who appointed the end that they should be saved, also appointed the means by which they would be saved—through the help of these sailors. Duty…