Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 27:24

24 Saying Fear not Paul, thou must be brought before Cesar, and lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.

The Message which God's Angels bring from God unto his people▪ is▪ Fear not. Thus unto Daniel, Dan. 10. 12, 19. And thus unto the holy women that attended at our Lords Sepulchre, Matth. 28.5. They are all Ministring Spiri[illegible: 2 letters] Heb▪ 1. ult

'Tis a forensick word, shewing that Paul must be heard and tried by Cesar.

Graciously bestowed all thy Fellow-Travellers upon thee at thy Request: For it is implied, that Paul had prayed for them, and begged their Lives of God; as Esther had the Lives of her people at the hands of King Ahasuerus, Esther 7.3. There is a remarkable difference between Paul and Ionah in a storm, tho Ionah professes as much as Paul does in the preceding Verse. But Ionah 1.9. it was little more than a Profession in Ionah, but Paul was actually in the Fear and Service of God, and doubtless there was a great a difference in their breasts during the Storm. The true Fear and Service of God brings with it great Peace and inward Satisfaction, which, when any leave, they must at least so long be Stranger unto, for there is no peace to the wicked, Isa. 48.22.