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When it was day, they didn`t recognize the land, but they noticed a certain bay with a beach, and they decided to try to drive the ship onto it.
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An Unfamiliar but Hopeful Shore
Commentators explain that even experienced sailors wouldn't have recognized this specific bay on Malta, as it was far from the main harbor. They spotted a sandy beach, which was their only hope. The crew made a calculated decision to intentionally run the ship aground there, a detail Luke includes to show their desperate but practical strategy for survival.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
They knew not the land. They had been driven with a tempest, without being able to make any observation; and it is probable that they were…
They knew not (ουκ επεγινωσκον). Imperfect active of επιγινωσκω, to recognize. Probably conative, tried to recognize and could not…
19th Century
Anglican
They knew not the land.—It was, of course, quite probable that at least some of the sailors had been to Malta before; but…
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Baptist
They wanted to let it go ashore, and break up, and so save their lives.
With a profusion of nautical detail that makes this chapter unique, Luke tells how the ship was beached amid the pounding surf on a sandbar some di…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And when it was day they knew not the land What place it was, or the name of it:
but they discove…
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