. The Oxford and Cambridge Acts of the Apostles : with ontrod. and notes for the use of students preparing for examinations . coasts of Asia to Sidon, where the centurion allowed Paul to visit his friends. Thence they sailed underCyprus, over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia to Myra, a city of Lycia, where thev found a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy. Thecenturion transferred his prisoners to this vessel, and they sailed slowly over against Cnidus, and thence under Crete, by Cape Salmone to a harbour, Iair Hnvens, near Lasea. Paul advised the centurion to winter here, because of thelate
. The Oxford and Cambridge Acts of the Apostles : with ontrod. and notes for the use of students preparing for examinations . coasts of Asia to Sidon, where the centurion allowed Paul to visit his friends. Thence they sailed underCyprus, over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia to Myra, a city of Lycia, where thev found a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy. Thecenturion transferred his prisoners to this vessel, and they sailed slowly over against Cnidus, and thence under Crete, by Cape Salmone to a harbour, Iair Hnvens, near Lasea. Paul advised the centurion to winter here, because of thelate season of the year, but the centurion followed the advice of the master and theowner of the vessel and endeavoured to gain Phenice, a harbour of Crete, and morecommodious to winter in. Obtaining a south wind they set sail, but soon after wereovertaken by a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon, and were driven under theisland of Clauda, under the lee of which they managed to hoist the boat on board, and undergirdedthe ship. Wishful to avoid the quicksands of Syrtes they lowered the gear from aloftand ran before the INTRODUCTION. 47 The next day they lightened the vessel, and on the third day they threw overboardthe tacklinfj of the ship. An angel appeared to Paul by night and encouraged him, so he announced tothe voyagers that their lives should be saved, but that they must be shipwrecked on anisland. On the fourteenth day the sailors sounded and found they were nearing land, so theyanchored the vessel by four anchors from the stern, and waited for day. By Pauls injunction the centurion cut the boat loose and prevented the sailorsfrom deserting the vessel. AVhen it was day they ran the ship ashore, and all got safely to land and foundthemselves on the island ofMelita, where they were hospitably entertained. Paul, whilst gathering a bundle ofsticks for tiie fire, was bitten by a viper, but received no harm. He also healed thefather of Publius, the chief man of the island, w
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