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When the ship was caught, and couldn`t face the wind, we gave way to it, and were driven along.
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Seized by the Storm
Commentators highlight the vivid Greek language used to describe the storm's power. The ship was 'caught' or 'seized' (as if by a monster) and could not 'face' or 'look the wind in the eye.' This imagery shows they were completely overpowered by a force beyond their control, forcing them to surrender the ship to the gale.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The ship was caught. By the wind. It came suddenly upon them as a tempest.
Could not bear up, and so on. It could not resi…
When the ship was caught (συναρπασθεντος του πλοιου). Genitive absolute again with first aorist passive of συναρπαζω, old word, in…
19th Century
Anglican
And could not bear up into the wind.—The Greek verb is literally, “to look into the wind’s eye,” to face the win…
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Baptist
But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon. And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the w…
Shortly after the decision to winter at Phoenix was made, a gentle southern breeze began to blow; and it appeared that they would have no trouble i…
16th Century
Protestant
When the ship was caught. Luke says that what happened here is what usually happens in extreme danger; namely, they allowed themselves to …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And when the ship was caught By the wind, snatched up by it, and forcibly carried away:
and could…
Those who set out on the ocean of this world with a favorable wind do not know what storms they may encounter; and therefore, they must not easily …
