Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Acts 27:12
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible. Browse this work.
Read Acts 27. Compare commentaries on this chapter.
Source and publication rights
Public domain. Public Domain. Source edition.
Berean Blue opens December 1, 2026. Explore this passage in the app preview.
Acts27:12
12. Phenice--"Phenix," now called Lutro.
which lieth toward the southwest and northwest--If this means that it was open to the west, it would certainly not be good anchorage! It is thought therefore to mean that a wind from that quarter would lead into it, or that it lay in an easterly direction from such a wind [Smith]. Ac 27:13 seems to confirm this.
Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, Acts 27:12. Public domain.
Permanent link. Source edition.