And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship ;
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Gill's Exposition
And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest,.... 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…
Barnes' Notes
They lightened the ship - By throwing out a part of the cargo.
Adam Clarke
Lightened the ship - Of what, we know not; but it was probably cumbrous wares, by which the deck was thronged, and which were prejudicial to the due trim of the vessel.
In these verses we have,
I. The ship putting to sea again, and pursuing her voyage at first with a promising gale. Observe, 1. What induced them to leave the fair havens: it was because they thought…
Cambridge Bible
And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest Better, with R. V."and as we laboured exceedingly with the storm." The storm waxed in violence.
the next day they lightened the ship This is not as…
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