What is the ship representing, if anything?

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birdie

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Acts 27:22 says: "And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship."

The ship is said to be of Alexandria (Egypt) going to Italy (means calf-like). Does the ship represent anything, or is it just a ship and nothing more? And why is the ship lost but not any man's life?
 
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eternally-gratefull

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birdie said:
Acts 27:22 says: "And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship."

The ship is said to be of Alexandria (Egypt) going to Italy (means calf-like). Does the ship represent anything, or is it just a ship and nothing more? And why is the ship lost but not any man's life?
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It just means the ship is damaged beyond repair, it is lost, and may even sink or break in peaces.

But through all that, Paul was assuring them that no person would perish.
 
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p_rehbein

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I don't think the ship was of any significance other than it was a ship.......Gill doesn't speak of it either in any special way.

QUOTE FROM GILL:

Acts 27:22
And now I exhort you to be of good cheer
To take heart and courage, and not be cast down, though things had been thus with them, and they were now in a very melancholy plight and condition.
For there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the
ship;

the ship will be lost, but not one person in it: there will be a shipwreck, and so every man's life will be in danger, and yet not one will perish; and therefore there was reason to be of good cheer, since this was what they could not, and did not expect, all hope of being saved was gone: wherefore this, if they could but believe it, must be good news to all the company; and in order to engage them to believe it, the apostle adds,
 
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