And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased.
Ver. 32. The wind ceased] As if it had been weary of blowing so big, and now desired rest after hard labour; as the word here used importeth. Herodotus useth the same word in the same sense, where he speaks of a tempest layed by the magicians. a Rupertus calleth the winds the world's besoms, which are used by God to sweep his great house and purge the air. b If the prince of the air make use of them to sweep God's children, as he did Job's children, out of the world, it cannot be said, as 1 Kings 19:11, that God is not in that wind; for he numbereth their hairs, and counts their flittings; and being the great Aeolus, lays laws upon the winds and waves, which instantly obey him. No sooner was Christ in the ship but they were all at land.
a εκοπασεν. Pacatus fuit, quasi vir stando delassatus. Herod. in Polymnia.
b Scopus mundi. Rupert. Virgil, Aeneid, i. 65.