Some have read the passage different from our translation, and rendered it, as if Paul had said, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried for, and continued fasting, having taken nothing, that is, ye have continued this whole day fasting. But I rather suppose, that he meant they had not, on account of the storm taken their usual meals in a regular manner but only caught a morsel of food now and then, as the tempest would suffer them. For strictly, and properly speaking, had this been the case, life would have been, in some instances at least, if not in all, destroyed for want of food. I do not apprehend, that when Paul admonished them to eat some food, saying, that it was the fourteenth day they had fasted, and had taken nothing, that he meant they had been all that while without the smallest food. No doubt, his cheerfulness in the midst of the storm, very much contributed to animate the whole ship's company. And what a lovely view the Lord hath given us of Paul. How truly interesting the whole narrative is. (38) And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea. (37) And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls. (36) Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat. (35) And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to eat.
(34) Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.
(33) And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing. (32) Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.
(30) And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under color as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship, (31) Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved. (29) Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day. But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country (28) And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.
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