Then for many days making very slow way, and scarce reaching over against Knidos, the wind not favouring us, we coasted Crete, opposite Cape Salmone:

Brethren, I count not myself to have overtaken it; but this one object I pursue, forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching out to those which are before,

Then passion impregnated, bringeth forth sin, and sin reaching its consummation, bringeth forth death.

And the harbour not being well situated for a winter station, the greater part advised to sail from thence, if they possibly could reach as far as Phenice to pass the winter, a harbour open to the south-west and north-west.

For I am in a strait between the two, having an earnest longing to be dissolved, and to be with Christ, for this is far, far better: