Atti 27:34

34 Perciò, io vi esorto di prender cibo: perciocchè, questo farà la vostra salute; imperocchè non caderà pur un capello dal capo d’alcun di voi.

Atti 27:34 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 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 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 F23; see ( 1 Samuel 14:45 ) ( 2 Samuel 14:11 ) .


FOOTNOTES:

F23 Kirchman. de funer. Rom. l. 2. c. 14. p. 212, 213.

Atti 27:34 In-Context

32 Allora i soldati tagliarono le funi dello schifo, e lo lasciarono cadere.
33 Ed aspettando che si facesse giorno, Paolo confortava tutti a prender cibo, dicendo: Oggi sono quattordici giorni che voi dimorate digiuni, aspettando, senza prender nulla.
34 Perciò, io vi esorto di prender cibo: perciocchè, questo farà la vostra salute; imperocchè non caderà pur un capello dal capo d’alcun di voi.
35 E, dette queste cose, prese del pane, e rendè grazie a Dio, in presenza di tutti; poi rottolo, cominciò a mangiare.
36 E tutti, fatto buon animo, presero anch’essi cibo.
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