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Casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time untying the rudder ropes. Hoisting up the foresail to the wind, they made for the beach.
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A Desperate, Final Maneuver
Commentators explain the crew's actions as a final, calculated effort. They cut the anchors, a decisive act committing them to beaching the ship. They then loosed the two large steering rudders, which had been tied up during the storm, and hoisted a small foresail for control, not speed. These precise details show a desperate but skillful attempt to save everyone by running the ship aground.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Had taken up the anchors. The four anchors with which they had moored the ship (Acts 27:29). See the margin. The expression ma…
Casting off (περιελοντες). Second aorist active of περιαιρεω. Literally, "Having taken away from around," that is all four anchors…
19th Century
Anglican
And when they had taken up the anchors.—A better translation is, And when they had cleared away (or, cut off)
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Baptist
The soldiers were responsible for them. They would be held accountable if a prisoner escaped; so, with that cruelty and yet that obedience to law w…
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 they had taken up the anchors The four anchors they cast out of the stern, (Acts 27:29) or "whe…
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