SEV Biblia, Chapter 27:7
Y navegando muchos días despacio, y habiendo apenas llegado delante de Gnido, no dejndonos el viento, navegamos bajo de Creta, junto a Salmn.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Acts 27:7
Verse 7. Sailed slowly many days] Partly because the wind was contrary, and partly because the vessel was heavy laden. Over against Cnidus] This was a city or promontory of Asia, opposite to Crete, at one corner of the peninsula of Caria. Some think that this was an island between Crete and a promontory of the same name.
Over against Salmone] We have already seen that the island formerly called Crete is now called Candia; and Salmone or Sammon, or Samonium, now called Cape Salamon, or Salamina, was a promontory on the eastern coast of that island.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 7. And when we had sailed slowly many days , etc.] Because of contrary winds, as in ( Acts 27:4) or else for want of wind, as some think; the Syriac version renders it, and because it sailed heavily; that is, the ship being loaden with goods: and scarce were come over against Cnidus ; or Gnidus, as it is sometimes called; it was a city and promontory in Doris, in the Chersonese or peninsula of Caria, famous for the marble statue of Venus made by Praxiteles f1264 ; it was over against the island of Crete, and is now called Capo Chio; it was the birthplace of Eudoxus, a famous philosopher, astrologer, geometrician, physician and lawgiver f1265 ; it is made mention of in: And to all the countries and to Sampsames, and the Lacedemonians, and to Delus, and Myndus, and Sicyon, and Caria, and Samos, and Pamphylia, and Lycia, and Halicarnassus, and Rhodus, and Aradus, and Cos, and Side, and Aradus, and Gortyna, and Cnidus, and Cyprus, and Cyrene. (1 Maccabees 15:23) Jerom says, it was a famous island over against Asia, joining to the province of Caria; some think it has its name from the fish Gnidus, which is taken about this place, and which is of such an extraordinary nature, that when taken in the hand, it stings like a nettle; others derive it from dg[ hanad, or gnad, which, in the Phoenician language signifies to join; because, as both Pausanias and Strabo say, it was joined by a bridge or causeway to the continent: it had two ports in it, as the last mentioned writer says, but into neither of them did the ship put, in which the apostle was; nor do we read of the Gospel being preached here, or of a church in it until the sixth century, when mention is made of a bishop of Gnidus in the acts of the synod at Rome and Constantinople f1270 : the wind not suffering us ; to go right forward, as the Syriac version adds: we sailed under Crete ; or below it, as in ( Acts 27:4) This is now called Candy; (see Gill on Acts 2:11), over against Salmone; now called Capo Salamone: this, by Pliny f1271 , Ptolomy f1272 , and Mela f1273 , is called Samonium or Sammonium, and by them said to be a promontory in the island of Crete, on the east side of it, over against the island of Rhodes; Strabo calls it Salmonion, an eastern promontory of Crete; and Jerom a maritime city of the island of Crete.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-11 - It was determined by the counsel of God, before it was determined by the counsel of Festus, that Paul should go to Rome; for God had wor for him to do there. The course they steered, and the places the touched at, are here set down. And God here encourages those who suffe for him, to trust in him; for he can put it into the hearts of those to befriend them, from whom they least expect it. Sailors must make the best of the wind: and so must we all in our passage over the ocean of this world. When the winds are contrary, yet we must be getting forwar as well as we can. Many who are not driven backward by cros providences, do not get forward by favourable providences. And man real Christians complain as to the concerns of their souls, that the have much ado to keep their ground. Every fair haven is not a saf haven. Many show respect to good ministers, who will not take their advice. But the event will convince sinners of the vanity of their hopes, and the folly of their conduct.
Greek Textus Receptus
εν 1722 PREP ικαναις 2425 A-DPF δε 1161 CONJ ημεραις 2250 N-DPF βραδυπλοουντες 1020 5723 V-PAP-NPM και 2532 CONJ μολις 3433 ADV γενομενοι 1096 5637 V-2ADP-NPM κατα 2596 PREP την 3588 T-ASF κνιδον 2834 N-ASF μη 3361 PRT-N προσεωντος 4330 5723 V-PAP-GSM ημας 2248 P-1AP του 3588 T-GSM ανεμου 417 N-GSM υπεπλευσαμεν 5284 5656 V-AAI-1P την 3588 T-ASF κρητην 2914 N-ASF κατα 2596 PREP σαλμωνην 4534 N-ASF
Vincent's NT Word Studies
7. Many (ikanaiv). See on Luke vii. 6.Scarce (moliv). Incorrect. Render, as Rev., with difficulty. See, also, hardly, in verse 8. The meaning is not that they had scarcely reached Cnidus when the wind became contrary, nor that they had come only as far as Cnidus in many days; but that they were retarded by contrary winds between Myra and Cnidus, a distance of about one hundred and thirty miles, which, with a favorable wind, they might have accomplished in a day. Such a contrary wind would have been the northwesterly, which prevails during the summer months in that part of the Archipelago.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
27:7 {When we had sailed slowly} (braduploountes). Present active participle of braduploew (bradus, slow, plous, voyage). Literally, "sailing slowly," not "having or had sailed slowly." Only here and in Artemidorus (sec. cent. A.D.). It may mean "tacking" before the wind. Polybius uses tacuploew, to sail swiftly. {Many days} (en hikanais hemerais). See on Lu 7:6 for hikanos. Literally, "in considerable days." {With difficulty} (molis). Used in old Greek, like mogis (#Lu 9:39) from molos, toil (see #Ac 14:18). {Over against Cnidus} (kata ten knidon). "Down along Cnidus." A hundred and thirty miles from Myra, the southwest point of Asia Minor and the western coast. Here the protection of the land from the northwest wind ceased. {The wind not further suffering us} (me prosewntos hemas tou anemou). Genitive absolute with present active participle of proseaw, one of the few words still "not found elsewhere" (Thayer). Regular negative me with participles. They could not go on west as they had been doing since leaving Myra. {We sailed under the lee of Crete} (hupepleusamen ten kreten). See under verse 4. Instead of going to the right of Crete as the straight course would have been they sailed southwest with Crete to their right and got some protection against the wind there. {Over against Salmone} (kata salmwnen). Off Cape Salmone, a promontory on the east of the island.
