9/42 3. 14) that it was the 'typhonic wind called Euroclydon' which caused the ship in which St.Paul and he sailed past Crete to incur the 'harm and loss' so graphically described in the last chapter but one of the Acts. That wind is mentioned nowhere but in this one place. Its name however is sufficiently intelligible; being compounded of [Greek: Euros], the 'south-east wind,' and [Greek: klydon], 'a tempest:' a compound which happily survives intact in the Peshitto version. The Syriac translator, not knowing what the word meant, copied what he saw,--'the blast' (he says) 'of the tempest[76], which [blast] is called Tophonikos Eurokl[=i]don.' Not so the licentious scribes of the West. |