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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Acts 27:40 - 27:40
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taken up the anchors, they committed themselves to the sea - The Margin is here evidently right, “cut the anchors (away), they left them in the sea.”
loosed the rudder bands - Ancient ships were steered by two large paddles, one on each quarter. When anchored by the stern in a gale, it would be necessary to lift them out of the water and secure them by lashings or rudder bands, and to loose these when the ship was again got under way [Smith].
hoised up the mainsail - her, “the foresail,” the best possible sail that be set in the circumstances. How necessary must the crew have been to execute all these movements, and how obvious the foresight which made their stay indispensable to the safety of all on board (see on Act 27:31)!