And falling into a place where two seas met,.... An "isthmus", on each side of which the sea ran; and which the inhabitants of Malta, as Beza says, show to this day, and call it, "la Cala de San Paulo", or the Descent of Saint Paul.
The meeting of these two seas might occasion a great rippling in the sea like to a large eddy, or counter tide; and here might be a sand on whichthey ran the ship aground; for this place where the two seas met, as the same annotator observes, could not be the shore itself; for otherwise, to what purpose should they cast themselves into the sea, as they afterwards did, if the head of the ship struck upon the shore, and stuck fast there?
but must rather mean a shelf of sand, opposite, or near the entrance into the bay, and where the shipwreck was.