Acts 27:44 - Exposition

Planks for boards, A.V.; other things from for broken pieces of, A.V. ; all escaped ( διασωθῆναι ) for escaped all, A.V.; the land for land, A.V. Planks ; σωνίσιν , only here and in the LXX . of 2 Kings 12:9 (for the "lid" of the box) and So 2 Kings 8:9 (for "boards"); very common in Homer and other Greek writers, for "boards" and "planks" of all kinds. They all escaped . In exact fulfillment of Paul's prediction in 2 Kings 8:22 . And thus ended the eventful voyage of about four hundred and eighty miles (as laid down in the charts) from Clauda to the Point of Koura on the north coast of Malta. It is one of the striking proofs of the identity of Melita with Malta, that the rate at which it is calculated that a large ship laying to in a gale would drift in twenty-four hours, viz. thirty-six miles, multiplied by thirteen and a half (the number of days occupied by the voyage), gives four hundred and eighty-six miles as the whole distance. Smith thinks that the coincidence between "the actual bearing of St. Paul's Bay from Clauda, and the direction in which the ship must have driven," with the wind blowing in the quarter we know it did," is, if possible, still more striking".