Adria

Acts 27:27  •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 12
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The Adriatic Sea, wherein Paul was driven up and down and afterward shipwrecked (Acts 27:2727But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country; (Acts 27:27)). The term Adriatic is now confined to the sea that lies between Italy and Dalmatia and Albania; but formerly it had a wider signification and included that part of the Mediterranean which was bounded by Sicily, Italy, Greece and Africa. The difference is of importance inasmuch as Malta (Melita) where Paul was shipwrecked is not within the present Adriatic Sea, though it is within that which was formerly called so. Attention to this would have prevented objectors calling in question Paul’s being shipwrecked at Malta.