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Acts 27:27 Revision History

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5Thursday, 14-Jan-2016 23:41:34 ESTtmoore1008 [Send Message]Revision of 4changed url¶But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised[a] that they were drawing near to some land.
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a BASE Institute.org: This could not mean that they actually saw land in the inky blackness, since Luke always uses this word for supposing or theorizing without visible proof. Rather, like sailors have done for centuries, they were listening for waves crashing on rocks in the night, so they might not suddenly run aground. When they heard the roaring of waves on a reef, they immediately began taking soundings in order to determine just how close they were to running aground.
4Monday, 21-May-2012 21:17:02 EDTtmoore1008 [Send Message]Revision of 3¶But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised[a] that they were drawing near to some land.
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a BASE Institute.org: This could not mean that they actually saw land in the inky blackness, since Luke always uses this word for supposing or theorizing without visible proof. Rather, like sailors have done for centuries, they were listening for waves crashing on rocks in the night, so they might not suddenly run aground. When they heard the roaring of waves on a reef, they immediately began taking soundings in order to determine just how close they were to running aground.
3Sunday, 11-Sep-2011 00:01:55 EDTtmoore1008 [Send Message]Revision of 2¶But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land.[a]
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a BASE Institute.org: This could not mean that they actually saw land in the inky blackness.... Rather, like sailors have done for centuries, they were listening for wave crashing on rocks [or a reef]....
2Saturday, 10-Sep-2011 17:47:26 EDTtmoore1008 [Send Message]Revision of 1¶But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land.[a]
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a BASE Institute: This could not mean that they actually saw land in the inky blackness.... Rather, like sailors have done for centuries, they were listening for wave crashing on rocks [or a reef]....
1Saturday, 10-Sep-2011 17:44:47 EDTtmoore1008 [Send Message]NEW¶But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land.[a]
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a BASE Institute: This could not mean that they actually saw land in the inky blackness.... Rather, like sailors have done for centuries, they were listening for wave crashing on rocks [or a reef] in the night....