Acts Chapter 27 verse 44 Holy Bible
and the rest, some on planks, and some on `other' things from the ship. And so it came to pass, that they all escaped safe to the land.
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And the rest, some on boards and some on things from the ship. And so it came about that they all got safe to land.
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and the rest, some on boards, some on some of the things [that came] from the ship; and thus it came to pass that all got safe to land.
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And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.
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and the rest should follow, some on planks, and some on other things from the ship. So it happened that they all escaped safely to the land.
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and the rest, some indeed upon boards, and some upon certain things of the ship; and thus it came to pass that all came safe unto the land.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 44. - Planks for boards, A.V.; other things from for broken pieces of, A.V.; all escaped (διασωθῆναι) for escaped all, A.V.; the land for land, A.V. Planks; σωνίσιν, only here and in the LXX. of 2 Kings 12:9 (for the "lid" of the box) and Song of Solomon 8:9 (for "boards"); very common in Homer and other Greek writers, for "boards" and "planks" of all kinds. They all escaped. In exact fulfillment of Paul's prediction in ver. 22. And thus ended the eventful voyage of about four hundred and eighty miles (as laid down in the charts) from Clauda to the Point of Koura on the north coast of Malta. It is one of the striking proofs of the identity of Melita with Malta, that the rate at which it is calculated that a large ship laying to in a gale would drift in twenty-four hours, viz. thirty-six miles, multiplied by thirteen and a half (the number of days occupied by the voyage), gives four hundred and eighty-six miles as the whole distance. (36X13.5 = 486) Smith thinks that the coincidence between "the actual bearing of St. Paul's Bay from Clauda, and the direction in which the ship must have driven," with the wind blowing in the quarter we know it did," is, if possible, still more striking" (pp. 127, 128).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(44) And the rest, some on boards . . .--These were probably planks from the decks. The words "broken pieces are not in the Greek, but fairly express its force. Literally, on some of the things from the ship. These might, it is obvious, have been pieces of timber from the bulwarks, loose spars, tables, stools, and the like.
