And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape. But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose ; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea,... The Old Sea Captain - Seite 12von Old Humphrey - 1799 - 324 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 972 Seiten
...who could swim should cast themselves first into the sea ; and the re.it, some on boards (or planks), liberality. 3 For to their power, I tear record, yea, and beyond their alt escaped safe to land." Practical writers have considered this as no unfit emblem of the manner... | |
| 1871 - 592 Seiten
...— nay, none whatever — whilst, with respect to their rescue from shipwreck, it is recorded, " And some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship....came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land." It is time, however, that we passed on to the second point we proposed to consider, namely, the sitting... | |
| 1874 - 352 Seiten
...of eternity, shall be heard the conquering song of " everlasting love " and " eternal redemption." " Some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they (the whole ship's company) escaped all safe to land " (Acts xxvii. 22, 44; Exod. x. 26; Isa. liv. 13... | |
| Robert Pedder Buddicom - 1826 - 488 Seiten
...to a servant of God and an obedient child of his love, the issue cannot be doubtful. Some on planks, and some on broken pieces of the ship : and so it came to pass, that they all escaped to land. II. A deliverance so mighty, a miracle of mercy so unequalled, except by the passage... | |
| 1827 - 512 Seiten
...taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder-bands, and hoisted up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore....came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land. And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita. And the barbarous people... | |
| Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (1802-1822) - 1827 - 522 Seiten
...Paul said to the centurion, and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved. And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces...it came to pass that they escaped all safe to land. Isaiah Iv. 10, 1 1. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither,... | |
| John Platts - 1827 - 688 Seiten
...commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land i 29 44 And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. 30 And so it came to pass, b that they escaped all safe to land. CHAP. XXVIII. 1 Paul after his shipwreck... | |
| Timothy Kenrick - 1828 - 332 Seiten
...commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land : 44. And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces...it came to pass that they escaped all safe to land. IN this chapter we have a striking picture of those distresses and dangers to which many persons are... | |
| Joseph Fincher - 1829 - 442 Seiten
...where two seas met, they ran the ship aground ; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unraoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of...came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land. IN PRESERVING PAUL, WHEN A VIPER HAD FASTENED ON HIS HAND. ACTS xxviii. 1—6. And when they were escaped,... | |
| Thomas Charlton Henry - 1829 - 356 Seiten
...hidings of their heavenly Father's face, at the time of their entering the swellings of Jordan : " And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces...came to pass that they escaped all safe to land." Several in this country, I understand, were greatly impressed by the ministrations and conversation... | |
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