Acts 27:12

not commodious to winter in And this was what they most likely would have to do, wherever they stopped, as the season for sailing was nearly over.

to depart thence also The oldest MSS. do not represent the last word. (R. V."to put to sea from thence)." The word is the technical term, and not the ordinary word for "depart."

they might attain to Phenice (R. V."they could reach Phœnix.") Phœnix is no doubt the correct orthography of the name. The place is mentioned both by Strabo and Ptolemy, and has been identified with the modern port of Lutro (Spratt's Creteii. 250 seqq.).

and lieth toward the south west and north west [R. V.looking north-east and south-east) The original is "looking down the south-west wind and down the north-west wind." To look down a wind is to look in the direction in which it blows. So as a south-west wind would blow towards N.E., the Rev. Ver.appears to give the correct sense, and the haven of Lutro answers these conditions, being open towards the east.