Acts 27:10

"When much time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous because the Fast had now already gone by, Paul admonished them"

Key Reflection

Paul's warning to his companions about the impending danger highlights both his divine guidance and the spiritual awareness necessary in times of peril. The timing also underscores the reliability of prophetic counsel in facing life’s storms, reflecting themes of preparedness and trust in divine providence.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Verse 10. Sirs. Greek, Men. I perceive. It is not certain that Paul understood this by direct inspiration. He might have perceived it from his own knowledge of the danger of navigation at the autumnal equinox, and from what he saw of the ship as unfitted to a dangerous navigation. But there is nothing that should prevent our believing also that he was guided to this conclusion by the inspiration of the Spirit of God. Comp. Ac 27:23,24. Will be with hurt. With injury, or hazard. It is not meant that their lives would be lost, but that they would jeoparded. The lading. The freight of the ship. It was laden with wheat, Ac 27:38.

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