ACTS 27:41 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.”
But the ship struck a sandbar and ran aground. The bow stuck fast and would not move, and the stern was broken to pieces by the pounding of the surf. - The prophesied grounding becomes reality. 'Struck a sandbar' (perippitō isthmon dithalassos, perippitō isthmon dithalassos-'run upon a two-sea place,' a sandbar with water on both sides). 'The bow stuck fast' (prōra ereido, prōra ereido-'the prow lodged/stuck') while 'the stern was broken to pieces by the pounding of the surf' (to prymē epitemnō hypo bias, to prymē epitemnō hypo bias-'the stern was torn apart by force'). The ship's destruction fulfills the prophecy; the divergence in fates (stern destroyed, bow stuck) creates separation of persons from wreckage, allowing survival. Luke's detail is precise and vivid.
Church Fathers on Acts 27:41
And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls. And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea. And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship. And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoisted up the mainsail to…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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