Treasury of Scripture
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Acts 27:22,24 And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship...
Psalm 107:28-30 Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distresses...
Amos 9:9 For, see, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve...
John 6:39,40 And this is the Father's will which has sent me, that of all which he has given me I should lose nothing...
2 Corinthians 1:8-10 For we would not, brothers, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure...
1 Peter 4:18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
land. Melita, now Malta, the island on which Paul and his companions were cast, is situate in the Mediterranean sea, about fifty miles from the coast of Sicily, towards Africa; and is one immense rock of soft white free-stone, twenty miles long, twelve in its greatest breadth, and sixty in circumference. Some, however, with the learned Jacob Bryant, are of opinion that this island was Melita in the Adriatic gulf, near Illyricum; but it may be sufficient to observe, that the course of the Alexandrian ship, first to Syracuse and then to Rhegium, proves that it was the present Malta, as the proper course from the Illyrian Melita would have been first to Rhegium, before it reached Syracuse, to which indeed it need not have gone at all.