Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 27:34

34 Suǒyǐ wǒ quàn nǐmen chī fàn , zhè shì guān hū nǐmen jiù méng de shì . yīnwei nǐmen gèrén lián yī gēn tóufa , yĕ bú zhì súnhuaì .

Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 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.

Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 27:34 In-Context

32 Yúshì bīng dīng kǎn duàn xiǎo chuán de shéngzi , yóu tā piāo qù .

33 Tiān jiàn liàng de shíhou Bǎoluó quàn zhòngrén dōu chī fàn , shuō , nǐmen xuán wàng rĕn è bú chī shénme , yǐjing shí sì tiān le .

34 Suǒyǐ wǒ quàn nǐmen chī fàn , zhè shì guān hū nǐmen jiù méng de shì . yīnwei nǐmen gèrén lián yī gēn tóufa , yĕ bú zhì súnhuaì .

35 Bǎoluó shuō le zhè huà , jiù ná zhe bǐng , zaì zhòngrén miànqián zhù xiè le shén , bǒ kāi chī .

36 Yúshì tāmen dōu fàng xià xīn , yĕ jiù chī le .