Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 27:41

41 Dàn yù zhe liǎng shuǐ jiā liú de dìfang , jiù bǎ chuán gé le qiǎn . chuán tóu jiāo zhù bú dòng , chuán wĕi beì làng de mĕng lì chòng huaì .

Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 27:41 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 27:41

And falling into a place where two seas met
An "isthmus", on each side of which the sea ran; and which the inhabitants of Malta, as Beza says, show to this day, and call it, "la Cala de San Paulo", or the Descent of Saint Paul. The meeting of these two seas might occasion a great rippling in the sea like to a large eddy, or counter tide; and here might be a sand on which

they ran the ship aground;
for this place where the two seas met, as the same annotator observes, could not be the shore itself; for otherwise, to what purpose should they cast themselves into the sea, as they afterwards did, if the head of the ship struck upon the shore, and stuck fast there? but must rather mean a shelf of sand, opposite, or near the entrance into the bay, and where the shipwreck was.

And the fore part stuck fast, and remained unmovable;
so that there was no getting her off:

but the hinder part was broken by the violence of the waves;
that is, the stern; by which means there were boards and broken pieces for the company to get ashore upon.

Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 27:41 In-Context

39 Dào le tiān liàng , tāmen bú rènshi nà dìfang , dàn jiàn yī gè hǎi wān , yǒu àn kĕ dēng , jiù shāngyì néng bǎ chuán lǒng jìn qù bùnéng .

40 Yúshì kǎn duàn lǎn suǒ , qì maó zaì hǎi lǐ , tóng shí yĕ sōng kāi duò shéng , lá qǐtóu péng , shùn zhe fēng xiàng àn xíng qù .

41 Dàn yù zhe liǎng shuǐ jiā liú de dìfang , jiù bǎ chuán gé le qiǎn . chuán tóu jiāo zhù bú dòng , chuán wĕi beì làng de mĕng lì chòng huaì .

42 Bīng dīng de yìsi , yào bǎ qiúfàn shā le , kǒngpà yǒu shuǐ tuō taó de .

43 Dàn bǎifūzhǎng yào jiù Bǎoluó , bú zhún tāmen rènyì ér xíng , jiù fēnfu huì shuǐ de , tiào xià shuǐ xiān shàng àn .