The ropes (τα σχοινια). Diminutive of σχοινος, old word, but in N.T. only here and Joh 2:15. Paul is now saviour of the ship and t…

Cut off the ropes, etc. It is evident that the mariners had not yet boarded the boat. They had let it down into the sea ([Reference Acts 2…

Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat.—The act had to be the work of an instant. The boat was already lowered, and the …

So that the sailors could not get away.

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…

Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat
With which it had been fastened to the sides of the ship, and by whi…

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…