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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.
Because the harbor was not suitable to winter in, the majority reached a decision to put out to sea from there, on the chance that somehow they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, facing southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.