Robertson Word Pictures - Acts 27:34 - 27:34

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Robertson Word Pictures - Acts 27:34 - 27:34


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For this is for your safety (touto gar pros tēs humeteras sōtērias huparchei). Note sōtēria in sense of “safety,” literal meaning, not spiritual salvation. This is the only instance in the N.T. of the use of pros with the ablative meaning “from the side of” your safety, though a classic idiom (Robertson, Grammar, p. 623), an example of Luke’s literary style.

Perish (apoleitai). Future middle (intransitive) of apollumi ‛̇uō', to destroy. So the oldest MSS. rather than peseitai from piptō, to fall. This proverbial expression occurs also in Luk 21:18 which see and in 1Sa 14:45; 2Sa 14:11; 1Ki 1:52.