Atos 27:34

34 Agora eu os aconselho a comer algo, pois só assim poderão sobreviver. Nenhum de vocês perderá um fio de cabelo sequer”.

Atos 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 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

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

Atos 27:34 In-Context

32 Com isso os soldados cortaram as cordas que prendiam o barco salva-vidas e o deixaram cair.

33 Pouco antes do amanhecer, Paulo insistia que todos se alimentassem, dizendo: “Hoje faz catorze dias que vocês têm estado em vigília constante, sem nada comer.

34 Agora eu os aconselho a comer algo, pois só assim poderão sobreviver. Nenhum de vocês perderá um fio de cabelo sequer”.

35 Tendo dito isso, tomou pão e deu graças a Deus diante de todos. Então o partiu e começou a comer.

36 Todos se reanimaram e também comeram algo.