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Text -- Acts 27:34 (NET)

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27:34 Therefore I urge you to take some food, for this is important for your survival. For not one of you will lose a hair from his head.”
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Robertson: Act 27:34 - -- For this is for your safety ( touto gar pros tēs humeteras sōtērias huparchei ). Note sōtēria in sense of "safety,"literal meaning, not s...

For this is for your safety ( touto gar pros tēs humeteras sōtērias huparchei ).

Note sōtēria in sense of "safety,"literal meaning, not spiritual salvation. This is the only instance in the N.T. of the use of pros with the ablative meaning "from the side of"your safety, though a classic idiom (Robertson, Grammar , p. 623), an example of Luke’ s literary style.

Robertson: Act 27:34 - -- Perish ( apoleitai ). Future middle (intransitive) of apollumi ‛̇uō' , to destroy. So the oldest MSS. rather than peseitai from piptō , to f...

Perish ( apoleitai ).

Future middle (intransitive) of apollumi ‛̇uō' , to destroy. So the oldest MSS. rather than peseitai from piptō , to fall. This proverbial expression occurs also in Luk 21:18 which see and in 1Sa 14:45; 2Sa 14:11; 1Ki 1:52.

Wesley: Act 27:34 - -- That ye may be the better able to swim to shore.

That ye may be the better able to swim to shore.

JFB: Act 27:33-37 - -- "until it should be day"; that is, in the interval between the cutting off of the boat and the approach of day, which all were "anxiously looking for"...

"until it should be day"; that is, in the interval between the cutting off of the boat and the approach of day, which all were "anxiously looking for" (Act 27:29).

JFB: Act 27:33-37 - -- Now looked up to by all the passengers as the man to direct them.

Now looked up to by all the passengers as the man to direct them.

JFB: Act 27:33-37 - -- "partake of a meal."

"partake of a meal."

JFB: Act 27:33-37 - -- "waited for a breathing time."

"waited for a breathing time."

JFB: Act 27:33-37 - -- That is, taken no regular meal. The impossibility of cooking, the occupation of all hands to keep down leakage, &c., sufficiently explain this, which ...

That is, taken no regular meal. The impossibility of cooking, the occupation of all hands to keep down leakage, &c., sufficiently explain this, which is indeed a common occurrence in such cases.

JFB: Act 27:34 - -- On this beautiful union of confidence in the divine pledge and care for the whole ship's health and safety see on Act 27:31.

On this beautiful union of confidence in the divine pledge and care for the whole ship's health and safety see on Act 27:31.

Clarke: Act 27:34 - -- A hair fall from the head - A proverbial expression for, ye shall neither lose your lives nor suffer any hurt in your bodies, if ye follow my advice...

A hair fall from the head - A proverbial expression for, ye shall neither lose your lives nor suffer any hurt in your bodies, if ye follow my advice.

TSK: Act 27:34 - -- for this : Mat 15:32; Mar 8:2, Mar 8:3; Phi 2:5; 1Ti 5:23 for there : 1Ki 1:52; Mat 10:30; Luk 12:7, Luk 21:18

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Act 27:34 - -- Not a hair fall from the head ... - A proverbial expression, denoting "that they would be preserved safe; that none of them would be lost, and ...

Not a hair fall from the head ... - A proverbial expression, denoting "that they would be preserved safe; that none of them would be lost, and that "in their persons they should not experience the least damage,"1Ki 1:52; 1Sa 14:45.

Poole: Act 27:34 - -- This is for your health that they might be stronger to endure that pain and perform that labour which was necessary towards their escape; for God wou...

This is for your health that they might be stronger to endure that pain and perform that labour which was necessary towards their escape; for God would have them to use all means for their deliverance.

For there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you a proverbial speech used by the Jews, as 1Ki 1:52 , signifying that they should not suffer the least detriment in their bodies, much less the loss of their lives. Thus God numbereth our hairs, and his providence extendeth over every one of them, as Mat 10:30 Luk 21:18 .

Gill: Act 27:34 - -- Wherefore I pray you to take some meat,.... To sit down composedly, and eat meat cheerfully and freely: for this is for your health; the Alexandria...

Wherefore I pray you to take some meat,.... To sit down composedly, and eat meat cheerfully and freely:

for this is for your health; the Alexandrian copy reads, "for our health"; it was for the health of them all, that they might be better able to bear the shock and fatigue of the shipwreck, and be in better spirits, and in a better capacity to help themselves, and one another:

for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you; a proverbial phrase, expressing the utmost safety of their lives, and therefore might cheerfully eat their food, and rest themselves, and be satisfied. To dream of shaving the hair, portended shipwreck to sailors; nor was it lawful for any to pare his nails, or cut off his hair, but in a storm; to which custom, some think, the apostle here alludes w; see 1Sa 14:45.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Act 27:34 Or “deliverance” (‘salvation’ in a nontheological sense).

Geneva Bible: Act 27:34 Wherefore I pray you to take [some] meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an ( g ) hair fall from the head of any of you. ( g ) This...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Act 27:1-44 - --1 Paul shipping towards Rome,10 foretells of the danger of the voyage,11 but is not believed.14 They are tossed to and fro with tempest;41 and suffer ...

Combined Bible: Act 27:34 - --notes on verse 33     

Maclaren: Act 27:30-44 - --A Total Wreck, All Hands Saved And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as t...

MHCC: Act 27:30-38 - --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, even...

Matthew Henry: Act 27:21-44 - -- We have here the issue of the distress of Paul and his fellow-travellers; they escaped with their lives and that was all, and that was for Paul's sa...

Barclay: Act 27:27-38 - --By this time they had lost all control of the ship. She was drifting, broadside on, across the Adriatic; and they could not tell where they were. ...

Constable: Act 9:32--Rom 1:1 - --III. THE WITNESS TO THE UTTERMOST PART OF THE EARTH 9:32--28:31 Luke next recorded the church's expansion beyond...

Constable: Act 19:21--Rom 1:1 - --D. The extension of the church to Rome 19:21-28:31 "The panel is introduced by the programmatic statemen...

Constable: Act 27:1--28:16 - --4. Ministry on the way to Rome 27:1-28:15 For a number of reasons Luke seems to have described t...

Constable: Act 27:27-44 - --The shipwreck 27:27-44 27:27-28 The ancient name of the central part of the Mediterranean Sea was the Adriatic or Hadriatic Sea. People referred to wh...

College: Act 27:1-44 - --ACTS 27 G. PAUL'S VOYAGE TO ROME (27:1-28:31) 1. The Journey from Caesarea to Sidon (27:1-3) 1 When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, Pa...

McGarvey: Act 27:33-36 - --33-36. In a time of extreme danger like the present, a man who is able to maintain complete self-possession has great control over those who are alarm...

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Introduction / Outline

Robertson: Acts (Book Introduction) THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES By Way of Introduction But for the Acts we should know nothing of the early apostolic period save what is told in the Epi...

JFB: Acts (Book Introduction) THIS book is to the Gospels what the fruit is to the tree that bears it. In the Gospels we see the corn of wheat falling into the ground and dying: in...

JFB: Acts (Outline) INTRODUCTION--LAST DAYS OF OUR LORD UPON EARTH--HIS ASCENSION. (Act 1:1-11) RETURN OF THE ELEVEN TO JERUSALEM--PROCEEDINGS IN THE UPPER ROOM TILL PEN...

TSK: Acts (Book Introduction) The Acts of the Apostles is a most valuable portion of Divine revelation; and, independently of its universal reception in the Christian church, as an...

TSK: Acts 27 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Act 27:1, Paul shipping towards Rome, Act 27:10. foretells of the danger of the voyage, Act 27:11. but is not believed; Act 27:14, They a...

Poole: Acts 27 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 27

MHCC: Acts (Book Introduction) This book unites the Gospels to the Epistles. It contains many particulars concerning the apostles Peter and Paul, and of the Christian church from th...

MHCC: Acts 27 (Chapter Introduction) (Act 27:1-11) Paul's voyage towards Rome. (Act 27:12-20) Paul and his companions endangered by a tempest. (Act 27:21-29) He receives a Divine assura...

Matthew Henry: Acts (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Acts of the Apostles We have with an abundant satisfaction seen the foundation of our holy religion...

Matthew Henry: Acts 27 (Chapter Introduction) This whole chapter is taken up with an account of Paul's voyage towards Rome, when he was sent thither a prisoner by Festus the governor, upon his ...

Barclay: Acts (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES A Precious Book In one sense Acts is the most important book in the New Testament. It is the simple truth t...

Barclay: Acts 27 (Chapter Introduction) The Last Journey Begins (Act_27:1-8) In Peril On The Sea (Act_27:9-20) Be Of Good Cheer (Act_27:21-26) Hoping For The Day (Act_27:27-38) Escape F...

Constable: Acts (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The title "Acts of the Apostles" is very ancient. The Anti-Marcioni...

Constable: Acts (Outline) Outline I. The witness in Jerusalem 1:1-6:7 A. The founding of the church 1:1-2:46 ...

Constable: Acts Acts Bibliography Albright, William Foxwell. The Archaeology of Palestine. 1949. Revised ed. Pelican Archaeolog...

Haydock: Acts (Book Introduction) THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. INTRODUCTION. St. Luke, who had published his gospel, wrote also a second volume, which, from the first ages, hath bee...

Gill: Acts (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO ACTS This book, in some copies, is called, "The Acts of the holy Apostles". It contains an history of the ministry and miracles of ...

College: Acts (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION As early as the second century the title "The Acts of the Apostles" was given to this document. Before that time the work probably circu...

College: Acts (Outline) OUTLINE I. THE CHURCH IN JERUSALEM - 1:1-8:1a A. INTRODUCTION OF THE BOOK - 1:1-3 B. THE COMMISSIONING OF THE APOSTLES - 1:4-8 C. THE ASCENSI...

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