The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: ACT 27:42 And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any
of them should swim out, and escape.
ACT 27:43 But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their
purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves
first into the sea, and get to land:
ACT 27:44 And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of
the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.
ACT 28:1 And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was
called Melita.
ACT 28:2 And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for
they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present
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