Acts 27:22

And now I exhort you to be of good cheer,.... To take heart and courage, and not be cast down, though things had been thus with them, and they were now in a very melancholy plight and condition.

For…

There shall be no loss - This must have been cheering news to those who had given up all for lost. As Patti had manifested great wisdom in his former advice to them, they might be now more disposed to…

There shall be no loss of - life - This must be joyous news to those from whom all hope that they should be saved was taken away: Act 27:20.

We have here the issue of the distress of Paul and his fellow-travellers; they escaped with their lives and that was all, and that was for Paul's sake. We are here told (Act 27:37) what number there…

And now i.e. though my advice was formerly rejected I offer it again.

there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship R. V."no loss of life among you, but onlyof the ship." This is…