Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Acts 27:12
Phenice—"Phenix," now called Lutro.
which lieth toward the southwest and northwest—If this means that it was open to the west, it would certainly not be good anchorage! It is thought therefore to mean that a wind from that quarter would lead into it, or that it lay in an easterly direction from such a wind [SMITH]. Acts 27:13 seems to confirm this.
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