John Gill's Exposition on Acts 27:18

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, etc.] 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 (<19A725>Psalm 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, (Jon 1:5) the Ethiopic version renders it, “they cast the goods into the sea”; the Arabic version, the “merchandise”.

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