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Pentecost, El Greco

Acts 7:30

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Acts 7:30 (WEB)

“When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.

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Jerome

  • “To fit him for the leadership of the Jewish people Moses was trained for forty years in the wilderness; and it was not till after these that the shepherd of sheep became a shepherd of men.” — editor's note: Acts vii. 29, 30.

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Augustine of Hippo

  • “Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet,” etc. Here, certainly, he speaks both of angel and of Lord; and of the same as the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; as is written in Genesis.” — editor's note: Ex. ii. 15 and iii. 7, and Acts vii. 29–33

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Parallel passages

  • Matthew 1:20 and Acts 7:30 share the same wording (9 words).

Quotes

  • Acts 7:30 takes up the words of Exodus 3:2 (9 words in common).

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