28—33.
Σινᾶ ἄγγελος Kupiou! ἐν φλογὶ πυρὸς 2? βάτου.
ἐθαύμασε ὃ
Ig!
31. 6 δὲ Μωσῆς ἰδὼν
τὸ papa’ προσερχοµένου δὲ αὐτοῦ κατανοῆσαι, ἐγένετο
φωνη Κυρίου πρὸς αὐτόν, 32. ''᾿Εγὼ ὁ Θεὸς τῶν πατέρων σου, ὁ
Θεὸς ᾽Αβραὰμ καὶ ὁ Θεὸς “loadk καὶ 6 γενόμενος Μωσῆς οὐκ ἐτόλμα κατανοῆσαι.
Κύριος, '"Λῦσον τὸ ὑπόδημα τῶν ποδῶν σου’ ὁ γὰρ τόπος ἐν
1 Κυριου om, SABC 61, 81, Vulg., Sah., Boh. ;
‘
Θεὸς ‘lakdB.” ἔντρομος δὲ
33°
εἶπε δὲ αὐτῷ
so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Blass (a
and B, although found in D), Weiss, Wendt (prob. added from Exod. iii. 2); Hilg.
retains.
2 ev Φλογι πυρος ΝΒΡΗΡ, Sah., Boh., Syr. Harcl., Arm., Aeth., Chrys., so W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt, and Hilg.; ev wupt pAoyos ACE, Vulg., Syr. Pesh, (so LXX, Exod. iii. 2, varies: ev πνρι Φλογος in B; ev Φλογι πυρος AF).
> avpaoe ABC 13, Vulg., Chrys., so Lach., Meyer, W.H., R.V.; εθαυµαζεν NDEHP 1, 31, 61, Aug., so Tisch., Weiss (Wendt doubtful), Hilg. Blass and Hilg. both read ακηκοα (D) for ηκουσα; cf. Exod. iii. 7.
which belongs to Sin,” 1.6., like desert which it overlooked, to the worship of the Babylonian Moon-God Sin in that region.—a@yyeAos: in Exod. iii. 2 “the angel of the Lord,” but in ver. 7 “the Lord said,” so here in νετ, 31 ‘‘ the voice of the Lord said,” cf. ver. 33. For the same mode of expression cf. Acts xxvii. 23 with xxiii. 11. In this Angel, the Angel of the Lord, cf. Exod. iii. 2 with vv. 6, 14, and Gen. xxii. 11 with ver. 12; the Angel of the Presence, Exod. xxxiii. 11, cf. Isa. Ixiii, g (ver. 38 below), although Jewish interpreters varied, the Fathers saw the Logos, the Eternal Word of the Father. See references in Felten, in loco, and Liddon, Bampton Lectures, Lect. ii., and ‘‘ Angel,” B.D.?. Otherwise we can only say that Jehovah Himself speaks through the Angel (Weiss, Blass, in loco).—év Φλογὶ πυρὸς Barov: words interchanged as in LXX A, Exod. iii. 2; according to Hebrew πυρὸς ἐκ τοῦ βάτον-- πυρός here = an adjective, rubus incensus (Blass, Weiss) ; cf. 2 Thess. i. 8, ἐν πυρὶ Φλογός. For gender of βάτος see ver. 35.
Ver. 31. κατανοῆσαι; this careful ob- servation is implied in the narrative of Exodus though the word is not employed. It is a favourite word with St. Luke, and is used by him four times in his Gospel and four times in Acts, elsewhere in ‘Gospels only in Matt. vii. 3 (five times in Epistles). On its force see Westcott on Heb. iii. αχ: ‘‘oculos vel mentem de- figere in aliquo” Grimm; properly = ‘to take notice of, so in classical Greek ; ‘it is used also in the sense of ob- serving, looking at, cf. James i. 27; and dn a general sense, to see, cf. LXX, Ps.
xciii. 9, cf. xc. 8; and also, to consider, Heb. x. 24 (Mayor, note on James i. 27). In the LXX, where it is fre- quent, it is used with both shades of meaning.
Ver. 32. ἔντρομος γεν. (cf. x. 4, ἔμφο- Bos γεν.), ΧνΙ. 20, cf. Exod. iii. 6, ex- pression used only in Acts in these two passages (Heb. xii. 21, quotation from LXX). ἔμφοβος is found five times in Luke, in Gospel xxiv. 5, 37, in Acts x. 4, xxiv. 25 (only once elsewhere, in Rey. x1. 33, with éyévovto), and in each pas- sage with γενόμενος. €vtpopos, Dan. (Theod.) x. 11, Wisdom xvii. 10, 1 Macc. xiil. 2, and in Ps. xvii. (xviii.) 7, Ixxvi. (-vii.) 18, ἔντρομος ἐγενήθη ἡ γῆ--ίπε word is also used by Plutarch.
Ver. 33. λῆσον, cf. Josh. v. 15, λῦσον A., cf. Exod. iii. 5; in classical Greek, λΏσαι, omitting gov. On the custom of worshipping bare-footed, as the priests when actually engaged in the Temple, or as the Arabs enter their mosques with bare feet, or the Samaritan the holiest place on Gerizim, see instances, both classical, Juvenal, Sat., vi., 158, and from Josephus and others, Wetstein and Wendt, im loco. The latter refers to an Egyptian custom the order of Pytha- goras ἀνυπόδητος Bie καὶ προσκύνει, Jamblich., Vit. Pyth., 23, and cf. 18 in Wetstein.— 76 ὑπόδημα, cf. xiii. 25, and John i. 27, where in each passage the singular is used, Both Weiss and Wendt note the significance of the verse—a strange land is consecrated (cf. vi. 13, τόπος ἅγιος) by the presence of God— the Jews thought that the Temple was the only holy place, cf. add. note for significance in connection with the aim