John Bengel Commentary - Acts 27:13 - 27:13

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John Bengel Commentary - Acts 27:13 - 27:13


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Act 27:13. Δόξαντες, having supposed) as the south wind blew in their favour.-ἄραντες) having moved. Where there is motion, there the mass is raised from the support beneath on which it rests. Thence αἴρειν, to move, by a Metonymy of the consequent for the antecedent.-ἆσσον) nearer. The comparative contracted from ἐγγὺς, which Herodotus also uses everywhere, and Josephus, l. i. Ant. c. 20. See Beza, E. Schmidt, and Raphelius. It is not in this place the name of a town, otherwise unknown, that they were seeking [as if ἆσσον were a town]; for it was Phenice which they had sought.[151]

[151] Rec. Text accents it, ἄσσον. Vulg. makes it a town: cum sustulissent de Asso.-E. and T.