And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.
Ver. 12. And lieth toward the south-west] It is a just complaint that a modern writer maketh of many men's spirits among us today; that they lie like this haven, toward the south-west and north-west, two opposite points. (Mr Burroughs, Heart Div.) Methinks it should lie heavy upon those men's spirits that first divided us, by publishing and pressing their new fangled fancies.