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Matthew 3:4. And the same John — The following description of John is added, that it might appear he did not live in obscurity, but was sufficiently known to all: had his raiment of camel’s hair — Not, as some have supposed, a camel’s skin, raw and undressed, but a kind of sackcloth, coarse and rough, made of the raw long hair of camels, and not of their fine and soft hair, dressed and ...
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Matthew 3:3. For this is he, &c. — These may be the words of...
- 4 John Wore a Garment of Camel's Hair, With a Leather Belt Around His Waist. His Food Was Locusts and Wild Honey
Verse 4. - With this verse we begin to meet with matter...
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The New York Times, in a story about the finding today, announced, “There are too many camels in the Bible, out of time and out of place … these anachronisms are telling evidence that the ...
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Jan 3, 2023 · Abraham’s Camels. Did camels exist in Biblical times? Camels appear with Abraham in some Biblical texts—and depictions thereof, such as The Caravan of Abram by James Tissot, based on Genesis 12. When were camels first domesticated? Although camel domestication had not taken place by the time of Abraham in the land of Canaan, it had in ...
In the second clause, the camel appears, not only, as in Matthew 19:24, as the type of vastness, but as being among the unclean beasts of which the Israelites might not eat (Leviticus 11:4). Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
(24) It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. —Two explanations have been given of the apparent hyperbole of the words. (1.) It has been conjectured that the Evangelists wrote not κάμηλος (a camel), but κάμιλος (a cable).
Matthew 22:8–13, then, serves as a “short symbolic story of the long history of world missions—the gathering of the church, but also the judgment of the church.” 24. Verses 8–10 depict the successful ingathering of the mixed church. The king’s gracious offer, repeatedly rejected in verses 5–6, is now accepted.
And so they set off in faith. And their faith was rewarded. 2:10 – When they saw the star they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy. God did not abandon them in the middle of their journey. Notice in verse the wise men say they saw the star in the east. And verse 9 says that “they had seen the star in the east.”.
