Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Acts 27:8
And hardly passing it—"with difficulty coasting along it," from the same cause as before, the westerly current and head winds.
came to . . . the Fair Havens—an anchorage near the center of the south coast, and a little east of Cape Matala, the southern most point of the island.
nigh whereunto was the city Lasea—identified by the REVEREND GEORGE BROWN [SMITH, Voyages and Shipwreck of St. Paul, Appendix 3, Second Edition, 1856]. (To this invaluable book commentators on this chapter, and these notes, are much indebted).
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