Actes 27:39

La Bible Ostervald

Et le jour étant venu, ils ne reconnaissaient point la terre; mais ayant aperçu un golfe qui avait une plage, ils résolurent d'y faire échouer le vaisseau, s'ils le pouvaient.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et le jour �tant venu ils ne reconnaissaient point le pays; mais ils aper�urent un golfe ayant rivage, et ils r�solurent d'y faire �chouer le navire, s'il leur �tait possible.

Darby's French Translation
Et le jour �tant venu, ils ne reconnaissaient pas le pays; mais ils apercevaient une baie ayant une plage, sur laquelle ils r�solurent, s'ils le pouvaient, de faire �chouer le navire.

Louis Segond (1910)
Lorsque le jour fut venu, ils ne reconnurent point la terre; mais, ayant aper�u un golfe avec une plage, ils r�solurent d'y pousser le navire, s'ils le pouvaient.

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when it was day they knew not the land,.... What place it was, or the name of it:

but they discovered a certain creek with a shore; a gulf or bay, with a shore near it; the Ethiopic version explains it,

an arm of the sea, where was a port, where they thought they could secure themselves, or get ashore:

into which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship; whither they had a mind, and consulted to run the ship, if it could be done by any means, believing it was the most likely method of saving themselves, and that; for notwithstanding the assurance they had that no man's life should be lost, they made use of all proper means for their safety and security.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They knew not the land - They had been driven with a tempest, without being able to make any observation, and it is probable that they were entire strangers to the coast and to the whole island,

A certain creek with a shore - Greek: a certain bosom κόλπος kolpos or bay. By its having a shore is probably meant that it had a level shore, or one that was convenient for landing. It was not a high bluff of rocks, but was accessible. Kuinoel thinks that the passage should be construed, “they found a certain shore, having a bay,” etc.

Were minded - Were resolved.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 39. They knew not the land — And therefore knew neither the nature of the coast, nor where the proper port lay.

A-creek with a shore — κολπον, Sinum, a bay, with a shore; a neck of land perhaps on either side, running out into the sea, and this little bay or gulf between them; though some think it was a tongue of land, running out into the sea, having the sea on both sides, at the point of which these two seas met, Acts 27:41. There is such a place as this in the island of Malta, where, tradition says, Paul was shipwrecked; and which is called la Cale de St. Paul. See Calmet.