ACTS 27:18 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;”
We took such a violent battering from the storm that the next day the men began to throw the cargo overboard. - 'Violent battering' (sphodra cheimazo, sphodra cheimazo-'violently storm-tossed') forces a desperate measure: 'throw the cargo overboard' (ekballo phortion, ekballo phortion-'cast out the freight'). The cargo-Egyptian grain worth a fortune-is jettisoned to lighten the ship and slow its sinking. Luke shows the progression of crisis: first caution, then urgency, now desperation.
Church Fathers on Acts 27:18
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, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven. And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship; and the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship. And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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