Atti 27:34

34 Perciò, io v’esorto a prender cibo, perché questo contribuirà alla vostra salvezza; poiché non perirà neppure un capello del capo d’alcun di voi.

Atti 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.

Atti 27:34 In-Context

32 Allora i soldati tagliaron le funi della scialuppa, e la lasciaron cadere.

33 E mentre si aspettava che facesse giorno, Paolo esortava tutti a prender cibo, dicendo: Oggi son quattordici giorni che state aspettando, sempre digiuni, senza prender nulla.

34 Perciò, io v’esorto a prender cibo, perché questo contribuirà alla vostra salvezza; poiché non perirà neppure un capello del capo d’alcun di voi.

35 Detto questo, preso del pane, rese grazie a Dio, in presenza di tutti; poi, rottolo, cominciò a mangiare.

36 E tutti, fatto animo, presero anch’essi del cibo.