ACTS 27:19 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.”
On the third day, they threw the ship's tackle overboard with their own hands. - Desperation intensifies: the crew now jettisons the ship's 'tackle' (skeuē, skeuē-'equipment, apparatus,' including sails, rigging). 'With their own hands' (autoxeires, autoxeires-'with their own hands') emphasizes their loss of hope. When sailors begin destroying their ship's working equipment, survival seems impossible.
Church Fathers on Acts 27:19
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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