Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Acts: Chapter 27]
27:20 {When neither sun nor stars shone upon us} (\m•te h•liou
m•te astr•n epiphainont•n\). Genitive absolute again. {For many
days} (\epi pleionas h•meras\). For more days than a few. {No
small tempest} (\cheimonos ouk oligou\). Litotes again. {All hope
that we should be saved was now taken away} (\loipon peri•ireito
elpis p•sa tou s•zesthai h•mas\). "For the rest (or future) there
began to be taken from around us (\peri•ireito\ inchoative
imperfect and see use of the verb in 2Co 13:16 of the veil) all
hope of the being saved so far as we were concerned." Despair was
beginning to settle like a fog on all their hopes. Had Paul lost
hope?
27:21 {When they had been long without food} (\poll•s te asitias
huparchous•s\). Genitive absolute, the old word \asitia\ from
\asitos\ (verse 33) \a\ privative and \sitos\, food, here alone
in N.T. Literally, "There being much abstinence from food." They
had plenty of grain on board, but no appetite to eat
(sea-sickness) and no fires to cook it (Page). "Little heart
being left for food" (Randall). Galen and other medical writers
use \asitia\ and \asitos\ for want of appetite. {Stood forth}
(\statheis\). As in 1:15; 2:14; 17:22. Pictorial word (Page)
that sets forth the vividness and solemnity of the scene
(Knowling). {Ye should have hearkened unto me} (\edei men
peitharch•santas moi\). Literally, "It was necessary for you
hearkening unto me not to set sail (\m• anagesthai\)." It was not
the "I told you so" of a small nature, "but a reference to the
wisdom of his former counsel in order to induce acceptance of his
present advice" (Furneaux). The first aorist active participle is
in the accusative of general reference with the present
infinitive \anagesthai\. {And have gotten this injury and loss}
(\kerd•sai te t•n hubrin taut•n kai t•n z•mian\). This Ionic form
\kerd•sai\ (from \kerda•\) rather than \kerd•nai\ or \kerd•nai\
is common in late Greek (Robertson, _Grammar_, p. 349). The
Revised Version thus carries over the negative \m•\ to this first
aorist active infinitive \kerd•sai\ from \kerda•\ (cf. on ¯Mt
16:26). But Page follows Thayer in urging that this is not
exact, that Paul means that by taking his advice they ought to
have escaped this injury and loss. "A person is said in Greek 'to
gain a loss' when, being in danger of incurring it, he by his
conduct saves himself from doing so." This is probably Paul's
idea here.
27:22 {And now} (\kai ta nun\). Accusative plural neuter article
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