Acts Chapter 27 verse 18 Holy Bible
And as we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw the `the freight' overboard;
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And, still fighting the storm with all our strength, the day after they made a start at getting the goods out of the ship;
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But the storm being extremely violent on us, on the next day they threw cargo overboard,
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And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;
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As we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw things overboard.
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And we, being exceedingly tempest-tossed, the succeeding `day' they were making a clearing,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - As we labored exceedingly for being exceedingly tossed, A.V.; the storm for a tempest, A.V.; began to throw the freight overboard for lightened the ship, A.V. Labored; χειμαζουμένων, only here in the New Testament; but used by Plato, Thucydides, Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and others, and especially by medical writers. It is the passive voice, and this is best expressed by the A.V. "tossed." They began to throw, etc. The phrase ἐκβολὴν ἐποιοῦντο is one of the technical phrases for taking a cargo out of a ship, given by Julius Pollux; ἐκβολὴν ποιήσασθαι τῶν φορτίων (Alford, from Smith). It is also the phrase of the LXX. in Jonah 1:5, Ἐκβολὴν ἐποιήσαντο τῶν σκευῶν τῶν ἐν τῶ πλοίω. They began to expresses the imperfect. It is inferred from this, and the subsequent statement (ver. 19) as to throwing overboard the tackling of the ship, that, in spite of the undergirding, the ship was leaking, and therefore heavy with water, and in danger of going down (romp. Jonah 1:5). The freight here mentioned may have been heavy packages of merchandise other than the main cargo of wheat (see ver. 6, note).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) The next day they lightened the ship.--St. Luke uses the technical term for throwing the bulk of the cargo overboard. They effected, in this way, the relief of the ship from the imminent danger of sinking. The act shows that, in spite of the undergirding, leakage was still going on. The cargo, as coming from Alexandria, probably consisted largely of corn; but see Note on Acts 27:38.
