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When 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.
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A Desperate Fight for Survival
Commentators explain that the sailors took extreme measures, using every technique they knew to survive. They "undergirded" the ship by wrapping it with heavy cables to keep the hull from breaking apart. This highlights the severity of the storm and the crew's desperate, yet skillful, fight for their lives.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Which when they had taken up. When they had raised the boat into the ship, so as to secure it.
They used helps. They used r…
19th Century
Anglican
They used helps, undergirding the ship.—The word “helps” corresponds to what we would call “precautions,” or “remedial me…
Baptist
And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat: which when they had taken up, they used helps,…
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Driven southwest some twenty-three miles to the small island of Cauda, the ship managed to gain the lee of the island. The sailors pulled in the di…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Which when they had taken up When they had got the boat into the ship:
they used helps
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 …
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