Acts 27:38

And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.

Ver. 38. Cast out the wheat] Fastidientes divinum verbum, et damnum et dedecus pall oportet. "Behold! they have rejected the word of the Lord, and what wisdom is in them?" Jeremiah 8:9 .

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Casting out the wheat — So firmly did they now depend on what St. Paul had said.

³⁸ And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.

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Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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The Biblical Illustrator

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Acts 27:38