28:11 According to the elder Pliny, the winter season when the seas were closed to navigation ended on 7 or 8 February. We may suppose, then, that the travelers’ three-month stay on Malta ended about then. The ship in which they resumed their journey was another Alexandrian vessel, very likely a grain ship, perhaps driven to the island by the same storm that had brought Paul and the others to its shores. Its “sign” was the twin gods. It may be right to say with GNB that the ship was called by that name, but the expression probably refers to the figurehead (as NIV). Cyril of Alexandria tells us that it was his countrymen’s custom to ornament each side of the prow with figures of deities. In this case, it was with the twin sons of Zeus and Leda, Castor and Pollux, the “patron saints” of nav…