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Selected Verse: Acts 7:31 - Updated King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ac 7:31 |
Updated King James |
When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the LORD came unto him, |
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King James |
When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord came unto him, |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
He wondered ... - What particularly attracted his attention was the fact that the bush was not consumed, Exo 3:2-3.
The voice of the Lord - Yahweh spake to him from the midst of the bush. He did not see him. He merely heard a voice. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
The sight (τὸ ὅραμα)
Always in the New Testament of a vision. See on Mat 17:9.
To behold (κατανοῆσαι)
See on Mat 7:3. Compare Luk 12:24, Luk 12:27. |
2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
27 Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them: how much more are all of you better than the fowls?
3 And why behold you the splinter that is in your brother's eye, but consider not the beam that is in your own eye?
9 And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.