Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 28:1

ANd when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita.

This was foretold by Paul, Chap. 27.26. And therefore though the Mariners knew not the Land, ver. 39. and were not able to direct the ship, as ver. the 15th. yet God so ordered it, that not a word spoken by Paul did fall to the ground, but the Wind and Sea obey him.

Now called Malta, a little Island between Sicili and Africa. There is another obscure Island in Illyricum, that was called by this name, which some have mistook for this place of Paul's shipwrack, by reason that this Tempest was in the Adriatick Sea: but not only the Gulf of Venice, but the Sea about Sicily, and this Coast, was so called; as Strabo witnesseth: See Chap. 27.27.