Since we were violently storm-tossed, they began the next day to jettison the cargo.
In these verses we have, I. The ship putting to sea again, and pursuing her voyage at first with a promising gale. Observe, 1. What induced them to leave the fair havens: it was because they thought the harbour not commodious to winter in; it was pleasant enough in summer but in the winter they lay bleak.
Commenting on Acts 27:12-20
And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest,.... Sometimes being lifted up as it were to the heavens, and then presently sinking down, as if they were going into the bottom of the sea; such a condition at sea is described to the life by the Psalmist, in Psa 107:25.
Verse 18. They lightened the ship. By throwing out a part of the cargo. (f) "tossed"