And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest
Sometimes being lifted up as it were to the heavens, and then
presently sinking down, as if they were going into the bottom of
the sea; such a condition at sea is described to the life by the
Psalmist, in ( Psalms
107:25-27 ) .
the next day they lightened the ship;
of its burden, its lading, the goods and merchandise that were in
it; as the mariners did in the ship in which Jonah was, (
Jonah 1:5 ) the
Ethiopic version renders it, "they cast the goods into the sea";
the Arabic version, the "merchandise".
