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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Acts 27:32

Verse 32. The soldiers cut off the ropes] These were probably the only persons who dared to have opposed the will of the sailors: this very circumstance is an additional proof of the accuracy of St. Luke.

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See also Acts 27:32 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    CUT OFF THE ROPES ... - It is evident that the mariners had not yet got on board the boat. They had let it down into the sea Acts 27:30, and were about to go on board. By thus cutting the ropes which...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 27 _ 1. From Caesarea to Fair Havens (Acts 27:1)._ 2. The Unheeded Warning. The Storm. Paul's Vision and Assurance of Safety (Acts 27:9). 3. The Shipwreck (Acts 27:27). Much has been writte...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    LANDING ON MALTA.Adria was not then what is now called the Adriatic, but was a general name for the sea between Malta, Italy, Greece, and Crete. After a fortnight's tossing on this sea there were sign...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE LAST JOURNEY BEGINS (Acts 27:1-8)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    When the fourteenth night came and we were drifting across in the Adriatic, in the middle of the night the sailors suspected that some land was approaching them. They took a sounding and found twenty...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ROPES. Greek. _schoinion._ Only here and John 2:15 (cords)....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _cut off_[_R. V._away] _the ropes of the boat_ i.e. cut asunder the ropes which attached the boat to the ship....

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ST PAUL’S VOYAGE AND SHIPWRECK...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΤΌΤΕ�, _then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat_, i.e. cut asunder the ropes which attached the boat to the ship. Thus the boat was cast away....

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _ ENCOURAGEMENT FROM GOD ACTS 27:21-38:_ They ate nothing for many days. Afterward Paul stood and told them that they should have listened to him and not sailed._ _ He also revealed to them that God h...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΆΠΈΚΟΨΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΠΟΚΌΠΤΩ (G609) отрезать, ΣΧΟΙΝΊΟΝ (G4979) канат, ΕΪΑΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΆΩ (G1439) отпускать, позволять, разрешать, с _inf._ ΈΚΠΕΣΕΪ́Ν _praes. act. inf., см._ Act...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    LANDING ON MELITA. Acts 27:28-44. Acts 27:28 and they sounded, and found twenty fathoms; and after a little space, they sounded again, and found fifteen fathoms. Acts 27:29 And fearing lest haply w...

  • Combined Bible Commentary

    See notes on verse 30...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off. Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat - it had been already lowered, And let her fall off - LET THE BOAT DRIFT AWAY...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    11 Anciently the steersman, or helmsman, or pilot, was captain of the ship, but his duties in larger vessels corresponds to our navigator. The man who chartered the ship traveled as his own supercargo...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE VOYAGE AND SHIPWRECK Acts 27:1 to Acts 28:16. The Journey to Rome. This narrative is the most detailed account of an ancient voyage which we possess, and is our principal source of knowledge of t...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 27 PAUL BEGINS HIS JOURNEY TO ROME, 27:1-12 V1 It was time for us to go to Rome. They handed Paul and some other prisoners over to Captain Juli...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEN THE SOLDIERS CUT OFF THE ROPES OF THE BOAT. — The act had to be the work of an instant. The boat was already lowered, the sailors were on the point of leaping into it. We can picture their mortif...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    τότε οἱ στρ. ἀπέκ.: Lewin, _Saint Paul_, ii., 202, sees in this the absolute ascendency which St. Paul had gained; he had said that their lives should be spared, and although, humanly speaking, the bo...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    SAFETY DEPENDENT ON OBEDIENCE Acts 27:27 Paul presents a noble picture, standing there in the gray dawn while the heavy seas are breaking over the ship. He seems to have become by force of character...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The study of Paul's last voyage reveals some apparently contradictory facts, and yet common in the experience of the saints. On the one hand, difficulties and dangers multiplied. On the other, the div...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    Troubles Seas When a soft, south wind began to blow, it was assumed they could easily reach Phoenix within a day, so they set sail. Apparently, they made good headway as they travelled along close to...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country; (28) And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: an...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The closing Chapter s from 21 to the end of the book are devoted to an episode full of interest and profit Paul's course from Jerusalem to Rome. And here we find ourselves in an atmosphere considerabl...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    His innocence fully established and acknowledged by his judges, the purposes of God must still be accomplished. His appeal to Caesar must carry him to Rome, that he may bear testimony there also. In h...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN THE SOLDIERS CUT OFF THE ROPES OF THE BOAT,.... With which it had been fastened to the sides of the ship, and by which the mariners were letting it down, in order to get into it, and go off: AND...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off. Ver. 32. _Then the soldiers_] According to St Paul's counsel, who was now somebody with them. Indeed he was grown, by much exerc...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _But when the fourteenth night_ Since they left Crete; _was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria_ That is, in the Adriatic sea: as the ancients called all that part of the Mediterranean sea wh...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    CUT OFF THE ROPES; to let the boat fall into the sea and float away, so that the sailors could not escape....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    In sight of land:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THEN THE SOLDIERS CUT OFF THE ROPES OF THE BOAT, AND LET HER FALL OFF. About this time the ship, a mere plaything of the waves, was being tossed about in the Adria, in the Ionian Sea between Sicily an...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    The journey to Rome has been seen as a striking picture of the history of the church publicly in its earlier years, with its rapid decline and eventual shipwreck. Paul is on board, but a prisoner, ind...

  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

    THEN THE SOLDIERS CUT AWAY THE ROPES OF THE SKIFF AND LET FALL OFF. 1. The soldiers cut away the ropes of the lifeboat. It falls into the sea and is gone. 2. Notice - the soldiers, not the sailors,...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "By this time the centurion has learned that it was unwise to disregard Paul's advice" (Reese p. 912). There is wisdom behind cutting loose the lifeboat. "History is full of accounts of the terrible s...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    30-38 God, who appointed the end, that they should be saved, appointed the means, that they should be saved by the help of these shipmen. Duty is ours, events are God's; we do not trust God, but temp...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    The centurion and soldiers, agreeing to what Paul had said, did this to take away all thoughts of escaping from the mariners, and leaving all upon what Paul had promised to them in the name of his God...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Acts 27:32 Then G5119 soldiers G4757 away G609 (G5656) ropes G4979 skiff G4627 and G2532 let G1439 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.' So the soldiers ran forward and cut the ropes which held fast the boat and it fell into the sea. Now the only hope of safety...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A SERIES OF MARITIME STAGES AND EXAMPLES OF PROPHECY (ACTS 27:10; ACTS 27:21) ON THE WAY TO ROME (27.L-26). This series of ‘maritime stages' on a voyage parallels that in Acts 21:1. That one led up to...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Acts 27:32. CUT THE ROPES. With military promptitude and without any argument, the soldiers settled the question. The ropes were cut; and the boat drifted off into the darkness, and was dashed to piec...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    THE ROPES (τα σχοινια). Diminutive of σχοινος, old word, but in N.T. only here and John 2:15. Paul is now saviour of the ship and the soldiers quickly cut loose the skiff and "let her fall off" (ει...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Acts 27:24 I. God judged that St. Paul was concerned with the lives of the crew of the ship he sailed in, and gave these men their lives as a precious gift. Here we have what may be called the head an...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Paul had advised the captain not to set sail for a while, Acts 27:11. Nevertheless the centurion believed the master and the owner of the ship, more than those things, which were spoken by Paul. And...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Paul sent to Rome. The hurricane. God's assurance to Paul in the storm, and his safe landing. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, Julius, centurion, angel, Caesar. CONCLUSION: Worldly men insist...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Acts 27:2. _Adramyttium,_ a town of Egypt, at the eastern mouth of the Nile; also a town of Mysia of the same name, where the ship touched. _One Aristarchus, a Macedonian, being with us._ The numeral...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    IT WAS THE FOURTEENTH NIGHT. Since they sailed from Safe Harbors. The storm is still driving them. The area of the Mediterranean Sea to the south of Italy and Greece was once called the Adria. A look...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship._ SELFISHNESS I. Its hideous character. 1. Its cowardice. They sought to flee out of the ship. 2. Its cunning. “Under colour,” pretending “as...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Then the soldiers cut off the ropes._ PRECAUTIONS 1. By casting off the boat--the apparent means of safety--true safety in this case was secured. Thus many a soul is saved by giving up what it may...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 27:27. THE FOURTEENTH NIGHT dated from the rising of the gale, which occurred soon after leaving the Fair Havens. THE SEA OF ADRIA.—See “Homiletical Analysis.” Though applied t...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ACTS 27:1 For, for _into, _A.V.;_ to a centurion named Julius of the Augustan band _for unto _one named Julius, a centurion of Augustus_'_ band, _A.V. THAT WE SHOULD SAIL. Observe the "we,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    When it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto one named Julius, a centurion of Augustus' band (Acts 27:1). So Julius is another Roman cent...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Luke 16:8; Philippians 3:7...

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