Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

Acts 27:43

βουλόμενος : “desiring,” R.V.; the centurion had from the first, Acts 27:3, treated Paul with respect, and the respect had no doubt been deepened by the prisoner's bearing in the hour of danger, and he would naturally wish to save the man to whom he owed his own safety, and that of the whole crew. διασῶσαι, even if he cared little for the rest he was determined “to save Paul to the end,” literally, so C. and H. There is no reason whatever to regard the words βουλ.… τὸν Π. as an interpolation. ἐκώλυσεν αὐτοὺς τοῦ β.: only here with this construction, accusative of person and genitive of thing, but similar usage in Xenophon, Polybius. For the resultative aorist, i.e., the aorist of a verb whose present implies effort or intention, commonly denoting the success of the effort, cf. also Matthew 27:20; Acts 7:36, Burton, p. 21. τοὺς δυν. κολυμβᾷν : probably Paul was amongst the number; he had thrice been shipwrecked, and had passed a day and a night in the open sea, 2 Corinthians 11:25 (Felten, Plumptre). ἐξιέναι : four times in Acts, nowhere else in N.T., Acts 13:42; Acts 17:15; Acts 20:7. ἀποῤῥίψαντας : “should cast themselves overboard and get first to the land,” R.V., where they could help the others to safety, so Breusing, Goerne, Renan; A.V. not so expressive, ἀποῤῥίπτειν : here used reflexively, see instance in Wetstein.

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