Acts 27

^{1 !} Pauls dangerous uiage and his companie towarde Rome.

^{4 a} From Sido to Myra they shulde haue sailed north, & by west: but the windes caused them to saile to Cyprus plaine North: thence to Cilicia Norht and by East, and so to Pamphylia, & Myra plaine West.

^{7 /} Or, Crete.

^{7 b} Which was an hight hil of Candie bowing to the sea warde.

^{9 c} This fast the Jewes abserued about the moneth of October in the Feast of their expiation, {Leui. 23,37}. So that Paul thoght it better to winter there, then to faile in the diepe of winter which was at hand.

^{14 d} That is, the Northeast winde, or euerie East winde that is furious and stormie.

^{16 e} This yle was West and by South from Candie straight towarde the goulef Syrtes, which were certeine boiling sandes that swallowed vp all that thei caught.

^{17 /} Or, boat.

^{18 /} Or, cast out the wares.

^{21 f} That is, ye shulde haue saued the losse by auoiding the danger.

^{23 g} They colde not then reproue him of rashenes, seing that this was the ordinance of God.

^{24 h} The graces & blessings, which God giueth to his children, profite manie times the enemies, which are vnworthie to receiue the frute thereof.

^{25 i} Faith is grounded vpon the worde of God.

^{27 k} This sea in Strabos time was taken for all that parte, which was about the mountaines called Ceraunii, & so deuideth Italie frm Dalmatia, & goeth vp to Venice.

^{31 l} Paul wolde vse suche meanes, as God had ordeined, lest he shulde seme to haue tempted him.

^{33 m} He meaneth an extraordinarie abstinence, which came of the feare of death, & so toke away their appetite.

^{34 n} By this Hebrewe phrase is ment that they shulde be in all points safe and sounde, {1 Sam. 14,45. 1 king. 1,52. mat. 10,30}

^{42 o} This declareth the great and barbarous ingratitude of the wicked, which can not be wone by no benefites.

^{44 !} How, and where they arriue.