Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 27:33

33 And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried, and continued fasting, having taken nothing.

All the Night after the Mariners were disappointed in their project to escape. So hard a matter it was to abate their fear of being presently destroyed; and so great influence hath the apprehension of present Death, and Judgment which follows it, upon the minds of men.

Not as if they had wholly eaten nothing all that while (for 'tis commonly held, that none can fast above half so long without danger o[illegible: 1 letter] Death), but because in all that space they had held no set meal, as they were wont to do; and what they did eat was very little, and onely in extream necessity, without any desire or taste; so great was their anguish.