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On the third day, they threw out the ship`s tackle with their own hands.
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An Act of Desperation
Commentators explain that throwing the ship's 'tackling' overboard was a desperate, last-ditch effort. This wasn't just extra cargo; scholars note it likely included essential equipment, furniture, and personal luggage. Some manuscripts indicate that even passengers like Paul and Luke helped, highlighting the extreme and immediate danger everyone faced.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The tackling of the ship. The anchor, sails, cables, baggage, etc. That is, they threw over everything that was not indispensable to its p…
19th Century
Anglican
We cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.—The better manuscripts give the third person plural, and not the…
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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For fourteen days and nights (cf. v.27), the ship was in the grip of the northeaster. The crew tried to lighten the ship by throwing overboard all …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the third day From the time this storm began, and this tempestuous weather held:
we cast out …
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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