Thrice was I beaten with rods, &c.— See Matthew 27:26. Mark 15:15.John 19:1. The wreck at Malta happened long after this time; so that it must have been the fourth shipwreck that St. Paul suffered. Had the inhabitants of that island been informed of this circumstance, they would have been confirmed in their suspicions of his being a very bad man; but this remarkably shews us, that a series of what the world calls misfortunesfrom the hand of Providence, may befal the best and worthiest of mankind. The word Νυχθημερον, rendered a day and a night, signifies "a natural day, including the hours of light and darkness." St. Paul was, during such a natural day, in the deep; probably floating on the remainders of the wreck, and just on the point of being washed away and sunk every moment. As Βυθος, the word here used, and rendered the deep, was the name of a deep dungeon at Cyzicum, in the Propontis, Dr. Hammond conjectures that St. Paul was cast into it, as he passed from Troas to that city: but the interpretation above given seems to be more easy and natural.
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2 Corinthians 11:25
25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;