And now I exhort you to be of good cheer
To take heart and courage, and not be cast down, though things
had been thus with them, and they were now in a very melancholy
plight and condition.
For there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but
of the
ship;
the ship will be lost, but not one person in it: there will be a
shipwreck, and so every man's life will be in danger, and yet not
one will perish; and therefore there was reason to be of good
cheer, since this was what they could not, and did not expect,
all hope of being saved was gone: wherefore this, if they could
but believe it, must be good news to all the company; and in
order to engage them to believe it, the apostle adds,