ACTS 27:44 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“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.”
The rest were to get there on pieces of the ship. In this way everyone reached land safely. - 'The rest' (hoi loipoi, hoi loipoi-'the remaining') are to reach shore 'on pieces of the ship' (epi sanidas, epi sanidas-'on planks/boards'). Luke's final sentence is triumphant: 'In this way everyone reached land safely' (houtōs egeneto pantas diasōzo eis tēn gēn, houtōs egeneto pantas diasōzo eis tēn gēn-'so it came to pass [that] everyone was saved to the land'). The prophecy is fulfilled precisely: 276 souls saved, the ship destroyed, all brought to safety. Paul's faith in God's word becomes the means of universal rescue. The wreck becomes not disaster but deliverance, not loss but gain.
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