Atos 27:41

41 Dando, porém, num lugar onde duas correntes se encontravam, encalharam o navio; e a proa, encravando-se, ficou imóvel, mas a popa se desfazia com a força das ondas.

Atos 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.

Atos 27:41 In-Context

39 Quando amanheceu, não reconheciam a terra; divisavam, porém, uma enseada com uma praia, e consultavam se poderiam nela encalhar o navio.

40 Soltando as âncoras, deixaram-nas no mar, largando ao mesmo tempo as amarras do leme; e, içando ao vento a vela da proa, dirigiram-se para a praia.

41 Dando, porém, num lugar onde duas correntes se encontravam, encalharam o navio; e a proa, encravando-se, ficou imóvel, mas a popa se desfazia com a força das ondas.

42 Então o parecer dos soldados era que matassem os presos para que nenhum deles fugisse, escapando a nado.

43 Mas o centurião, querendo salvar a Paulo, estorvou-lhes este intento; e mandou que os que pudessem nadar fossem os primeiros a lançar-se ao mar e alcançar a terra;