The time being now come for the fulfilling of God's purpose and determinate counsel concerning Paul, recorded BE OF GOOD CHEER, PAUL, AS THOU HAST TESTIFIED OF ME AT JERUSALEM, SO SHALT THOU BEAR WITNESS ALSO AT ROME. Acts 23:11 Pursuant to this purpose of God, Festus the Roman governor delivers th... [ Continue Reading ]
An account is here given of the very hazardous voyage which the apostle had from Cesarea towards Rome. He sails from Cesarea to Cyprus; from Cyprus to Cilicia to Crete; and having been long at sea, and the summer wearing away, and the great fast being past, that is, the anniversary of expiation, whi... [ Continue Reading ]
The farther difficulties and dangers which the apostle met with, in this winter voyage, are here described and declared, and the properest lessons of instruction which can,. think, be gathered from them, will be by way of allusion. Thus, 1. The ship in which he sailed is an emblem of the church, in... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe here, 1. The hopeless, helpless, comfortless state, which St. Paul, and those in the ship with him, were now reduced to: neither sun nor stars appeared, and the weather proved very tempestuous, and when they utterly despaired of life, then God gives Paul, and he the rest,. comfortable assura... [ Continue Reading ]
A farther account is here given both of the apostle's imminent danger and extra-ordinary deliverance; for fourteen days together the ship was continually tossed in the sea; at last the mariners cast four anchors out of the ship, and, by the help of. boat, intended to make their escape, leaving the p... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe here, 1. What honour God put upon the holy apostle: although he was. poor prisoner in chains, yet God made him the only counsellor and comforter unto all that were in the ship. First, he adviseth them to eat, because that through consternation of mind, and horror of death, they had made no... [ Continue Reading ]
Here observe, 1. How willing men in distress are to part with all things for the preservation of life; these sea-faring men are here found three times lightening their ship of her lading and burden; first the merchandise was cast overboard, Acts 27:18 next all the ship's furniture was heaved over, A... [ Continue Reading ]