ACTS 27:30 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,”
In an attempt to escape from the ship, the sailors let the lifeboat down to the sea, pretending they were going to lower some anchors from the bow. - The sailors attempt mutiny: they lower 'the lifeboat' (skaphē, skaphē) and 'pretend' (prophasis, prophasis-'pretext') they are setting anchors from the bow. Their treachery-abandoning the ship and prisoners-reveals how despair dissolves moral order. The lifeboat, which they struggled to secure earlier, becomes instrument of escape. Luke marks the moment as a test of Paul's character and the crew's loyalty.
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