Act 27:17 | Family | STEP | Taken up ; taken into the ship, to prevent the boat being broken or lost. Used helps, undergirding ; putting chains or ropes around the vessel, to strengthen it and keep it together. Quicksands ; on the coast of Africa, south-west of them. Strake sail ; these words do not seem to mean that they took in all sail, which would have left them drifting towards the quicksands at the mercy of the wind and waves; but rather, that they reduced their sail very low. This would enable them, while driven before the wind, to keep the ship's head in a measure towards the north-west, and thus avoid the African coast and the quicksands.

Acts 27:17

Taken up; taken into the ship, to prevent the boat being broken or lost.

Used helps, undergirding; putting chains or ropes around the vessel, to strengthen it and keep it together.

Quicksands; on the coast of Africa, south-west of them.

Strake sail; these words do not seem to mean that they took in all sail, which would have left them drifting towards the quicksands at the mercy of the wind and waves; but rather, that they reduced their sail very low. This would enable them, while driven before the wind, to keep the ship's head in a measure towards the north-west, and thus avoid the African coast and the quicksands.