Acts 27:20

“And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, etc.] The Syriac version adds, “nor moon”; which is an usual description of dark, cloudy, and tempestuous seasons; and which was not only uncomfortable to them, because they could not see these luminaries, and enjoy their beneficial light and influence; but because they had them not to guide and direct them; for the sun, moon, and stars, are useful to sailors, to steer their course by; especially they were to the ancients, before the invention and use of the loadstone; besides, by these they conjectured what weather it would be, as mariners still do; they observed the rising and setting of the sun, whether it shone with equal rays or not,…”

“neither sun nor stars appeared in many--"several" days--probably most of the fourteen days mentioned in Act 27:27. This continued thickness of the atmosphere prevented their making the necessary observations of the heavenly bodies by day or by night; so that they could not tell where they were. all hope that we should be saved was taken away--"Their exertions to subdue the leak had been unavailing; they could not tell which way to make for the nearest land, in order to run their ship ashore, the only resource for a sinking ship: but unless they did make the land, they must founder at sea. Their apprehensions, therefore, were not so much caused by the fury of the tempest, as by the state of…”

“Neither sun nor stars ... - As they could see neither san nor stars, they could make no observations; and as they had no compass, they would be totally ignorant of their situation, and they gave up all as lost. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Neither sun nor stars appeared for many days - Which they could the less spare, before the compass was found out. Acts 27:21”

“neither: Exo 10:21-23; Psa 105:28; Mat 24:29 and no: Psa 107:25-27; Jon 1:4, Jon 1:11-14; Mat 8:24, Mat 8:25; Co2 11:25 all: Isa 57:10; Jer 2:25; Eze 37:11; Eph 2:12; Th1 4:13 Acts 27:21”