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Reference: Attain
Hastings
In Ac 27:12 'attain' has the literal meaning of reach a place (so RV). Elsewhere it has the figurative sense still in use.
In Ac 27:12 'attain' has the literal meaning of reach a place (so RV). Elsewhere it has the figurative sense still in use.
And as the harbour was not a good one in which to be for the winter, the greater number of them were for going out to sea, in order, if possible, to put in for the winter at Phoenix, a harbour of Crete, looking to the north-east and south-east.
Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain