Acts 27:40

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And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and released the rudder bands, and hoisted up the foresail to the wind, and made toward shore.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Loosing also the rudder bands. Some ships are said heretofore to have had two rudders: and this ship perhaps had two, unless here the plural number be put for the singular, which is not uncommon in the style of the Scriptures. And hoisting up the main-sail. The word in the text may signify any sail, either the main, or mizen-sail, which latter by the event was more than sufficient. (Witham)

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Hippolytus of Rome

AD 235

And she bears in her midst also the trophy (which is erected) over death; for she carries with her the cross of the Lord.

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John Chrysostom

AD 407

And the vessel goes to pieces in the daytime, that they may not be clean dissolved with the terror: that you may see the prophecy brought out as fact. And the soldiers' counsel, etc.

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