1And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita.
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Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island.
And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.
And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.
And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)What a great variety of places and circumstances do we find Paul in! He was a planet, and not a fixed star. Here we have him in an island to which, in all probability, he had never come if he had not been thrown upon it by a storm; and yet it seems God has work for him to do here. Even stormy winds fulfil God’s counsel, and an ill wind indeed it is that blows nobody any good; this ill wind blew go…
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