Acts 27:22 - Exposition

Life for any man ' s life, A.V.; but only for but, A.V, I exhort you to be of good cheer . Mr. Hobart remarks that this "has all the look of a doctor's expression, παραινεῖν being the term for a physician giving his advice," and " εὔθυμος εὐθυμεῖν , and εὔθυμως being used in medical language in reference to the sick keeping up their spirits, as opposed to ἀθυμία and δυσθυμυία " (see Acts 27:25 , note). Loss ; ἀποβολή , only here and Romans 11:15 ; but found in Plato, Aristotle, Josephus, Plutarch, etc. Mark how the message of mercy and love follows the chastisement and its fruit of self-humiliation. In their prosperity and self-confidence they rejected Paul's word at Fair Havens; they listen to it at death's door.