Acts 7:30-34 And when forty years were expired… A sign and a type — I. OF ISRAEL. As in Egypt, it resembled a degenerate and wild thorn hedge, burning, but not consumed, in the glow of the brick-kiln, and in the heat of trial. II. OF THE MESSIAH. According to His human lowliness — a thorn bush, and Divine glory — the flame in the bush, inseparable in one person — the bush not consumed. III. OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, in its insignificant cross form, constant trial, and indistructible powers of life. This bush has now burned fez nearly two thousand years, and yet we have never seen its ashes. (K. Gerok.) Parallel Verses KJV: And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush. |
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