Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island.
Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island - `on some island.' From the explicit particulars-that the ship would be lost, but not one that sailed in it, and that they 'must be cast on some island'-one would conclude that he had had a visional representation of a total wreck, of a mass of human beings struggling with the angry elements, and of one and all of those whose figure and countenance had daily met his eye on deck standing on some unknown island- shore. From what follows, it would seem that Paul from this time was regarded with a deference akin to awe.
The wreck and safe landing on Malta (27:27-44)