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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 because the haven was not suitable to winter in, the majority advised to depart from there also, if by any means they might arrive at Phoenix, and there to winter; which is a haven of Crete, and opens toward the southwest and northwest.