Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary

Acts 27:8

μόλις τε παραλεγόμενοι αὐτήν, and with difficulty coasting along it. παραλέγεσθαι describes a voyage made by keeping close to the shore of the island. Against a wind N.W., or nearly so, the island of Crete would afford them some protection.

ἤλθομεν εἰς τόπον τινά, we came to a place, i.e. on the coast of Crete.

καλούμενον Καλοὺς λιμένας, called Fair Havens. This place, though mentioned nowhere else in literature, is known by the same name still. It is on the south of Crete, four or five miles east of Cape Matala, which is the largest headland on that side of the island.

Λασαία, Lasæa. This city has also been identified very recently. Its ruins were discovered in 1856, a few miles east of Fair Havens. See Smith’s Voyage and Shipwreck of St Paul, App. III. pp. 262, 263.

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