Acts 7 verse 31

Acts 7 verse 31

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.   (KJV)

And Moses marveled at the sight. And he coming up to look, a voice of the Lord came to him:       (IB)

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Retranslation:  And Moses marveled at the spectacle of this blazing instantaneous knowing, and as soon as he took notice of the spectacle, giving it his full and respectful attention, a voice of supreme authority addressed him. 

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saw 1492 eido, a primary verb; used on in certain past tenses, the others being borrowed from the equivalent 3700 and 3708; properly to see (literally or figuratively); by implication (in the perfect only) to know:------be aware, behold, can (+ not tell), consider, know, have knowledge, look (on), perceive, see, be sure, tell, understand, wish, wot. Compare 3700.

marveled 2296 thaumazo, from 2295; to wonder; by implication to admire:----admire, have in admiration, marvel, wonder.

sight 3705 horama, from 3708; something gazed at, i.e. a spectacle (especially supernatural):----sight, vision.

coming up 4334 proserchomai, from 4314 and 2064 (including its alternate); to approach, i.e. (literally) come near, visit, or (figuratively) worship, assent to:-----(as soon as he) come (unto), come thereunto, consent, draw near, go (near, to, unto).

to look 2657 katanoeo, from 2596 and 3539; to observe fully:-----behold, consider, discover, perceive.

3539 noeo, from 3563; to exercise the mind (observe), i.e. (figuratively) to comprehend, heed:----consider, perceive, think, understand.

observe (1828 Dict. def.): [L. ob, to + servo, to keep or hold. The sense is to hold in view, or to keep the eyes on.]

2. To take notice or cognizance of by the intellect. We observe nice distinctions in arguments, or a peculiar delicacy of thought.

notice n. (ibid.): 

1. Observation by the mind or intellectual power; as, to take notice of a distinction between truth and veracity.

2. Information; intelligence by whatever means communicated; knowledge given or received; as, I received notice by a messenger or letter. He gave notice of his arrival. The bell gives notice of the hour of the day. The merchant gives notice that a bill of exchange is no accepted.

3. Attention, respectful treatment.

noticing (ibid.): Observing; seeing; regarding; remarking on; treating with attention.

voice 5456 phone, probably akin to 5316 through the idea of disclosure; a tone (articulate, bestial or artificial); by implication an address (for any purpose), saying or language:----noise, sound, voice.

Lord 2962 kyrios, from kyros (supremacy); supreme in authority, i.e. (as noun) controller; by implication Mister (as a respectful title):----God, Lord, master, Sir.

came 1096 ginomai, a prolonged and middle form of a primary verb; to cause to be (“gen” -erate). i.e. (reflexive) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literally, figuratively, intensively, etc.):-----arise, be assembled, be, become, befall, behave self, be brought (to pass), (be) come (to pass), continue, be divided, draw, be ended, fall, be finished, follow, be found, be fulfilled, God forbid, grow, happen, have, be kept, be made, be married, be ordained to be, partake, pass, be performed, be published, require, seem, be showed, soon as it was, sound, be taken, be turned, use, wax, will, would, be wrought.

to 4314

him 846

Acts 7 verse 30

Acts 7 verse 30

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.   (KJV)

And forty years being fulfilled to him, the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.   (IB)

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Retranslation: And when repentance was executed, and humility regained, Moses was alone with God and God lifted him up and he experienced a remarkable message of highest authority in a blaze of light, instantaneously.

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appeared 3700 optanomai, a (middle) prolonged form of the primary (middle) optomai which is used for it in certain tenses; and both as an alternate of 3708; to gaze (i.e. with wide-open eyes, as at something remarkable; and thus differing from 991, which denotes simply voluntary observation; and from 1492, which expresses merely mechanical, passive or casual vision; while 2300, and still more emphatically its intensive 2334, signifies an earnest but more continued inspection; and 4648 a watching from a distance):---look, see, shew self, appear.

3708 horao; properly to stare at [compare 3700], i.e. (by implication) to discern clearly (physically or mentally); by extension to attend to; by Hebrew to experience; passive to appear:----behold, perceive, see, take heed.

wilderness 2048 eremos, of uncertain affinity; lonesome, i.e. (by implication) waste (usually a noun, 5561 being implied):-----desert, desolate, solitary, wilderness.

Mount 3735 oros, probably from an obsolete oro (to “rise” or “rear”; perhaps akin to 142; compare 3733); a mountain (as lifting itself above the plain):----hill, mount, mountain.

Sinai 4614 Sina of Hebrew origin [H5514]; Sina (i.e. Sinai), a mountain in Arabia:---Sina.

H5514 sinay, of uncertain derivation; Sinai, a mountain of Arabia:-----Sinai.

angel 32 angelos, from angello [probably derived from 71; compare 34] (to bring tidings); a messenger; especially an “angel”; by implication a pastor:----angel, messenger.

Lord 2962 kyrios, from kyros (supremacy); supreme in authority, i.e. (as noun) controller; by implication Mister (as a respectful title):----God, Lord, master, Sir.

in 1722 en, a primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or constructively), i.e. a relation of rest (intermediate between 1519 and 1537); “in,” at, on, upon, by, etc. Often used in compounds with substantially the same import; rarely with verbs of motion, and then not to indicate direction, except (elliptically) by a separate (and different) preposition:-----about, after, against, almost, altogether, among, as, at, before, between, by here by (+ all means), for (. . .sake of), give self wholly to, in, herein, into, inwardly, mightily, (because) of, on, upon, -ly (e.g. openly, speedily), outwardly, one, quickly, shortly, that, there, therein, thereon, through, throughout, to, unto, toward, under, when where, wherewith, while, with, within.

flame 5395 phlox, from a primary phlego (to “flash” or “flame”); a blaze:----flame, flaming.

fire 4442 pyr, a primary word; “fire” (lit. or fig., specifically lightning):---fiery, fire.

bush 942 batos, of uncertain derivation; a brier shrub:-----bramble, bush.

Acts 7 verses 27, 28 & 29

Acts 7 verses 27, 28 & 29

Acts 7 verse 27

But the one wrongdoing the neighbor thrust him away, saying, Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us?    (IB)

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Retranslation:  But the unjust one, offending The-One-Nearest to him, rejected Him, saying, Who made you First, over me?!  Who made you the Decider of What Is Right to me? I will be judge and ruler of what is self-evident to me!!

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NOTE:  In the above-translation, the wrongdoer is mortal ego. The Neighbor, or the One nearest to Moses, is Divine Consciousness, the true self, or Ego. The word epo (“saying” ) means to “say” in words or in writing. Thus, the words of rejection of the divine rule may have come Egypt’s learned textbooks. 

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wrongdoing 91 adikeo, from 94; to be unjust, i.e. (active) do wrong (morally, socially or physically):-----hurt, injure, be an offender, be unjust, (do, suffer, take) wrong.

94 adikos, from G1 (as a negative particle) and 1349; unjust; by extension wicked; by implication treacherous; specifically heathen:------unjust, unrighteous.

neighbor 4139 plesion, neuter of a derivative of pleas (near); (adverbially) close by; as noun, a neighbor, i.e. fellow (as man, countryman, Christian or friend):----near, neighbor.

thrust away 683 apotheomai or apothomai, from 575 and the middle of otheo or otho (to shove); to push off, figuratively to reject:----cast away, put away (from), thrust away (from).

him 846

saying 2036 epo, a primary verb; to speak or say (by word or writing):----answer, bid, bring word, call, command, grant, say (on), speak, tell. Compare 3004.

Who 5101

appointed 2525 kathistemi, from 2596 and 2476; to place down (permanent), i.e. (figuratively) to designate, constitute, convoy:-----appoint, be, conduct, make, ordain, set. 

you 4571

ruler 758 archon, present participle of 757; a first (in rank or power):----chief (ruler), magistrate, prince, ruler.

judge 1348 dikastes, from a derivative of 1349; a judger:----judge.

1349 dike, probably from 1166; right (as self-evident), i.e. justice (the principle, a decision, or its execution):-----judgement, punish, vengeance.

over 1909 epi, a primary preposition properly meaning superimposition (of time, place, order, etc.); as a relation of distribution [with the genitive], i.e. over, upon, etc.; of rest (with the dative) at, on, etc.; of direction (with the accusative) towards, upon, etc. In compounds it retains essentially the same import, at upon, etc. (literally or figuratively):----about (the times), above, after, against, among, as long as (touching), at, beside, have charge of, fore, before, wherefore, in (a place, as much as, the time of), into, (because) of, on (behalf of), upon, over, (by, for) the space of, through, throughout, to, unto, toward, with.

us 2248

Acts 7 verse 28

Do you not want to do away with me in the way you did away with the Egyptian yesterday?   (IB)

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Retranslation: Are You not determined to do away with me (false ego), my precious thoughts and favorite beliefs about the Land of Confinement, in the same manner that way You did away with thoughts of the Land of Confinement yesterday?

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not 3361

desire 2309 theleo or ethelo, apparently strengthened from the alternate form of 138; to determine (as an active option from subjective impulse; whereas 1014 properly denotes rather a passive acquiescence in objective considerations), i.e. choose or prefer (lit. or fig.); by implication to wish, i.e. be inclined to (sometimes adverbially gladly); impersonally for the future tense, to be about to; by Hebrew to delight in:-----desire, be disposed (forward), intend, list, love, mean, please, have rather, will (have), (be) willing, willingly. 

138 haireomai, probably akin to 142; to take for oneself, i.e. to prefer:-----choose. Some of the forms are borrowed from a cognate hellomai which is otherwise obsolete.

take away 337 anaireo, from 303 and (the active of) 138; to take up, i.e. adopt; by implication to take away (violently), i.e. abolish, murder:-----put to death, kill, slay, take away, take up.

me 3165

you 4771

(in) what 3739

way 5158 tropos, from the same as 5157; a turn, i.e. (by implication) mode or style (especially with preposition or relative prefixed as adverb like); figuratively deportment or character:----(even) as, conversation, [+ like] manner, (+ by any) means, way.

you

took away 337 (See above.)

Egyptian 124

yesterday 5504 chthes, of uncertain derivation; “yesterday”; by extension in time past or hitherto:------yesterday.

Acts 7 verse 29

And Moses fled at this word. And he became a sojourner in Midian land, where he fathered two sons.    (IB)

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Retranslation: And Moses shunned this subject of discourse and fled from the divine premise and its subsequent conclusions.  And he behaved himself as a stranger to God, living in contention, discord and strife with Her, as a resident-alien not subject to Her laws, and he conceived of two sons.

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NOTE: (two sons) Gershom [“For I am a stranger in a strange land];” and  Eliezer  [the “God of my father was mine help.”] (Ex. 18:4)

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NOTE: Realizing how far I am getting behind, I read ahead. I thought about what Stephen is saying and who he is talking to.  This passage above (Acts 7:29) is a rebuke to the high priest, et al, who are learned men. Like Moses, they resist reasoning on this point [God’s Allness]. Moses runs away from it. The high priests would rather kill the messenger.

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Moses 3475

fled 5343 pheugo, apparently a primary verb; to run away (lit. or fig.); by implication to shun; by analogy to vanish:----escape, flee (away).

at 1722

this 5129

word 3056 logos, from 3004; something said (including the thought); by implication a topic (subject of discourse); also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension a computation; specifically (with the art. in John) the Divine Expression (i.e. Christ):-----account, cause, communication, doctrine, fame, have to do, intent, matter, mouth, preaching, question, reason, reckon, remove, say, saying, shew, speaker, speech, talk, thing, none of these things move me, tidings, treatise, utterance, word, work.

3004 lego, a primary verb; properly to “lay” forth, i.e. (figuratively) relate (in words [usually of systematic or set discourse; whereas 2036 and 5346 generally refer to an individual expression or speech respectively; while 4483 is properly to break silence merely; and 2980 means an extended or random harangue]); by implication to mean:----ask, bid, boast, call, describe, give out, name, put forth, say (on), saying, shew, speak, tell, utter.

discourse n.(1828 Dict. def.): [L. discurro, dis + curro, to run.]

1. The act of understanding, by which it passes from premises to consequences; the act which connects propositions, and deduces conclusions from them.

discourse v.i. (ibid.)

1. To talk; to converse; but it expresses rather more formality than talk. He discourses with us an hour on the events of the war.
2. To communicate thoughts or ideas in a formal manner.
3. To reason; to pass from premises to consequences.

reasoning (ibid.): arguing; deducing inferences from premises; debating; discussing/

became 1096 ginomai, a prolonged and middle form of a primary verb; to cause to be (“gen” -erate). i.e. (reflexive) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literally, figuratively, intensively, etc.):-----arise, be assembled, be, become, befall, behave self, be brought (to pass), (be) come (to pass), continue, be divided, draw, be ended, fall, be finished, follow, be found, be fulfilled, God forbid, grow happen, have, be kept, be made, be married, be ordained to be, partake, pass, be performed, be published, require, seem, be showed, soon as it was, sound, be taken, be turned, use, wax, will, would, be wrought.

sojourner 3941 paroikos, from 3488 and 3624; having a home near, i.e. (as noun) a by-dweller (alien resident):----foreigner, sojourn, stranger.

in 1722

Midian 3099 Madian, of Hebrew origin [H4080], a region in Arabia:-----Madian

H4080 midyan, the same as H4079; Midjan, a son of Abraham; also his country and (collectively) his descendants:-----Midian, Midianite.

H4079 midyan, a variation for H4066; brawling, contention, contentious.

H4066 madon, from H1777; a contest or quarrel:-----brawling, contention, contentious, discord, strife. Compare H4079, H4090.

land 1093 ge, contracted from a primary word; soil; by extension a region, or the solid part or the whole of the terrene globe (including the occupants in each application):-----country, earth, earthly, ground, land, world.

where 3757 hou, genitive of 3739 as adverb; at which place, i.e. where:----where, wherein, whither, whithersoever.

fathered 1080 gennao, from a variation of 1085; to procreate (properly of the father, but by extension of the mother); figuratively to regenerate:-----bear, beget, be born, bring forth, conceive, be delivered of, gender, make, spring.

two 5207

sons 1417 

Ex. 2:21: And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter. Ex. 2:22: And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

E. 18:4: And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:

Acts 7 verses 24, 25 & 26

Acts 7 verses 24 

And seeing one being wronged, he defended him, and did vengeance the one getting the worse, striking the Egyptian.  (IB)

And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian.    (KJV)

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Retranslation: [Having visited his true kin, the thoughts of God (see verse 23)], Moses now perceives two opposing viewpoints. One offends the other. To protect his budding spiritual unfoldment against the prevailing finite world-view, Moses strike a blow against the status quo by allowing true thoughts, or divine reasoning, to weave a structure of truth and love over him, sheltering and defending him against the baneful effects of the false beliefs of the world of confinement.

Vengeance!

(unjustified)

Moses did vengeance. Literally, he “carried justice,” usurping God’s place, the “place” where all action is laid. Moses resorts to his former reasoning as he has been taught in the world of confinement, limited good, limited God, and he reasons: God is not here sufficiently with these individuals and this situation; therefore, I must carry justice. Moses mistakenly believes he can kill one of God’s beloveds, and that this action is just, the will of God.

Vengeance!

(justified)

God did vengeance. Omnipotence and Omnipresence obliterate the ideas of Confinement and Limitation (Materialism).

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seeing 1492 eido, a primary verb; used on in certain past tenses, the others being borrowed from the equivalent 3700 and 3708; properly to see (literally or figuratively); by implication (in the perfect only) to know:------be aware, behold, can (+ not tell), consider, know, have knowledge, look (on), perceive, see, be sure, tell, understand, wish, wot. Compare 3700.

one 5100 tis, an enclitic indefinite pronoun; some or any person or object:----a (kind of), any (man, thing, thing at all), certain (thing), divers, he (every) man, one (thing), ought, partly, some (man), somebody, something, somewhat, thing, that nothing, what, whatsoever, wherewith, whom, whomsoever, whose, whosesoever.

being wronged 91adikeo, from 94; to be unjust, i.e. (active) do wrong (morally, socially or physically):----hurt, injure, be an offender, be unjust, (do, suffer, take) wrong.

94 adikos, from G1 (as a negative particle) and 1349; unjust; by extension wicked; by implication treacherous; specifically heathen:-----unjust, unrighteous.

1349 kike, probably from 1166; right (as self-evident), i.e. justice (the principle, a decision, or its execution):----judgment, punish, vengeance.

1166 deiknyo, a prolonged form of an obsolete primary of the same meaning; to show (literallly or figuratively):----shew.

defended 292 amynomai, middle of a primary verb; to ward off (for oneself), i.e. protect:----defend.

protect (Origins, p.698) See TECHNIC, paragraph 10. Greek tekhne, a working with the hands, a craft, manual skill, an art, art, is akin to Greek tekton, Sanskrit taksan, a carpenter, a builder, and Sanskrit taksati, he forms, constructs, carpenters; phonetically identical with taksati is L. texere, to weave, hence, figuratively, to construct. Compare also Hittite takkss- (taks-), to join, build. Probably akin to those Sanskrit, Greek and Latin words is L. tegere, to cover, hence to put a roof onto, with stem teg- and past participle tectus.

Paragraph 10. L. protegere, to cover, pro- or in front, hence to shelter or guard, has past participle protectus, whence ‘to protect.’

did 4160 poieo, apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary; to make or do (in a very wide application, more or less direct):-----abide, agree, appoint, avenge, band together, be, bear, bewray, bring (forth), cast out, cause, commit, content, continue, deal, without any delay, (would) do, doing, execute, exercise, fulfil, gain, give, have, hold, journeying, keep, lay, wait, lighten the ship, make, mean, none of these things move me, observe, ordain, perform, provide, have purged, purpose, put, raising up, secure, shew, shoot out, spend, take, tarry, transgress the law, work, yield. Compare 4238.

vengeance 1557 ekdikesis, from 1556; vindication, retribution:------avenge, revenge, vengeance, punishment.

1556 ekdikeo, from 1558; to vindicate, retaliate, punish:-----avenge, revenge.

1558 ekdikos, from 1537 and 1349; carrying justice out, i.e. a punisher:-----avenger, revenger.

vengeance (1828 Dict. def.): 

1. The infliction of pain on another, in return for any injury or offense. Such infliction, when it proceeds from malice or mere resentment, and is not necessary for the purposes of justice, is revenge, and a most heinous crime. When such infliction proceeds from a mere love of justice, and the necessity of punishing offenders for the support of the laws, it is vengeance, and is warrantable and just. In this case, vengeance is a just retribution, recompense, or punishment. In this latter sense the word is used in the Scripture, and frequently applied to the punishments inflicted by God on sinners.

“To me belongeth vengeance and recompense.” Deut. xxxii.

“The Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries.” Nah. i.

getting the worse 2669 kataponeo, from 2596 and a derivative of 4192; to labor down, i.e. wear with toil (figuratively harass):----oppress, vex.

striking 3960 patasso, probably prolonged from 3817; to knock (gently or with a weapon or fatally):-----smite, strike. Compare 5180.

3817 paio, a primary verb; to hit (as if by a single blow and less violently); specifically to sting (as a scorpion):----smite, strike.

5180 typto, a primary verb (in a strengthened form); to “thump”, i.e. cudgel or pummel (properly with a stick or bastinado), but in any case by repeated blows; thus differing from 3817 and 3960, which denote a [usually single] blow with the hand or any instrument, or 4141 with the fist [or a hammer], or 4474 with the palm; as well as from 5177, an accidental collision); by implication to punish; figuratively to offend (the conscience):----beat, smite, strike, wound.

Egyptian 124 [Reasoning from the standpoint of confinement, besieged by limits of all kinds, in every direction.]

Acts 7 verse 25 

And he thought his brothers would understand that God would give them deliverance by his hand. But they did not understand.     (IB)

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Retranslation:  Moses supposes his thoughts (thoughts from God and remnants of his beliefs about the World of Confinement?) would companion, and through a process of association, become the instrumentality of God’s wisdom, bringing forth salvation through the channel of his reasoning, his mind’s power to “put together” and comprehend Divinity. But Moses’ opposing beliefs could not put together this salvation, protection and shelter.

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thought  3543 nomizo, from 3551; properly to do by law (usage), i.e. to accustom (passive be usual); by extension to deem or regard:------suppose, think, be wont.

3551 nomos, from a primary nemo (to parcel out, especially food or grazing to animals); law (through the idea of prescriptive usage), general (regulation), specific of Moses [including the volume]; also of the Gospel), or figurative (a principle):----law.

suppose (noun)(1828 Dict. def.): 

1. Supposition; position without proof.

suppose (v.t.)

1. To lay down or state as a proposition or fact that may exist or be true, thought not known or believed to be true or exist; or to imagine or admit to exist; or to imagine or admit to exist, for the sake of argument or illustration. Let us suppose the earth to be the center of the system, what would be the consequence?
2. To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.

brothers 80 adelphos, from G1 (as a connective particle) and delphys (the womb); a brother (literally or figuratively) near or remote [much like H1]:----brother.

understand 4920 syniemi, from 4862 and hiemi (to send); to put together, i.e. (mentally) to comprehend; by implication to act piously:-----consider, understand, be wise.

4862 syn, a primary preposition denoting union; with or together (but much closer than 3326 or 3844), i.e. by association, companionship, process, resemblance, possession, instrumentality, addition, etc. In compounds it has similar applications, including completeness:----beside, with.

that 3754 hoti, neuter of 3748 as conjecture; demonstrative that (sometimes redundant); causative because:-----as concerning that, as though, because (that), for (that), how (that), though, why.

God 2316 theos, of uncertain affinity; a deity, especially (with 3588) the supreme Divinity; figuratively a magistrate; by Hebrew very:-----exceeding, God, god, godly, godward.

give 1325 didomai, a prolonged form of a primary verb (which is used as an alternative inmost of the tenses); to give (used in a very wide application, properly or by implication, literally or figuratively; greatly modified by the connection):-----adventure, bestow, bring forth, commit, deliver (up), give, grant, hinder, make, minister, number, offer, have power, put, receive, set, shew, smite (+ with the palm of the hand), strike (+ with the palm of the hand), suffer, take, utter, yield.

deliverance 4991 soteria, feminine of a derivative of 4990 as (properly abstract) noun; rescue or safety (physical or moral):-----deliver, health, salvation, save, saving.

4990 soter, from 4982; a deliverer, i.e. God or Christ:-----saviour.

4982 sozo, from a primary sos (contracted for obsolete saos “safe”); to save, i.e. deliver or protect (literally or figuratively):----heal, preserve, save (self), do well, be (make) whole.

by 1223 dia, a primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through (in very wide applications, local, causal or occasional). In compounds it retains the same general import:----after, always, among, at, to avoid, because of (that), briefly, by, for (cause) . . .fore, from, in, by occasion of, of, by reason of, forsake, that, thereby, therefore, though, through, throughout, to wherefore, with, within.

his 848

hand 5495 cheir, perhaps from the base of 5494 in the sense of its cogener the base of 5490 (through the idea of hollowness for grasping); the hand (literal or figurative [power]; especially [by Hebrew] a means or an instrument):----hand.

5494 cheimon, from a derivative of cheo (to pour; akin to the base of 5490 through the idea of a channel), meaning a storm (as pouring rain); by implication the rainy season, i.e. winter:----tempest, foul weather, winter.

5490 chasm, from a form of an obsolete primary, cheao (to “gape” or “yawn”); a “chasm” or vacancy (impassable interval):----gulf. 

not 3756

understand 4920 (See above.)

Acts 7 verses 26 

And on the following day he appeared to them while fighting. And he urged them to peace, saying, Men, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?      (IB)

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Retranslation:  As a consequence of the good that is unfolding to Moses, the one who is being drawn out, he clearly sees the opposing viewpoints. And he reconciles the opposing positions, drives them together, joins them and sets them as one, bidding them, “Man! these are brothers! it is the same womb that gave them life! For what reason does one offend the other?”

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following 1966 epiousa, feminine singular participle of a compound of 1909 and heimi (to go); supervening, i.e. (2250 or 3571 being expressed or implied) the ensuing day or night:----following, next.

ensue, v.t. (1828 Dict. def.): [L. sequor, to follow, See SEEK.]

1. To follow, to pursue. “Seek peace and ensue it.” 1 Pet. iii.

ensue, v.i.

1. To follow as a consequence of premises; as, from these facts or this evidence, the argument will ensue.
2. To follow in the train of events or course of time; to succeed; to come after. He spoke and silence ensued. We say, the ensuing age or years; the ensuing events.

DAY. The irradiance of Life; light; the spiritual idea of Truth and Love.

“And the evening and morning were the first day.” [Genesis 1.5.] The objects of time and space disappear in the illumination of spiritual understanding, and Mind measures time according to the good that is unfolded. This unfolding is God’s day, and “there shall be no night there.”  SH p. 584:1

2250 hemera, feminine (with 5610 implied) of a derivative of hemai (to sit; akin to the base of 1476) meaning tame, i.e. gentle; day, i.e. (literally) the time space between dawn and dark, or the whole twenty-four hours (but several days were usually reckoned by the Jews as inclusive of the parts of both extremes); figuratively a period (always defined more or less clearly by the context):----age, alway, day (by day), daily, midday, for ever, judgment, (day) time, while, years.

3571 nyx, a primary word; “night” (literal or figurative):----night, midnight.

appeared 3700 optanomai, a (middle) prolonged form of the primary (middle) optomai which is used for it in certain tenses; and both as an alternate of 3708; to gaze (i.e. with wide-open eyes, as at something remarkable; and thus differing from 991, which denotes simply voluntary observation; and from 1492, which expresses merely mechanical, passive or casual vision; while 2300, and still more emphatically its intensive 2334, signifies an earnest but more continued inspection; and 4648 a watching from a distance):---look, see, shew self, appear.

them 846

fighting 3164 machomai, middle of an apparently primary verb; to war, i.e. (figuratively) to quarrel, dispute:----fight, strive.

urged 4900 synelauno, from 4862 and 1643; to drive together, i.e. (figuratively) exhort (to reconciliation):-----set at one again.

them 846

to 1519

peace 1515 eirene, probably from a primary verb eiro (to join); peace (lit. or fig.); by implication prosperity:----one, peace, quietness, rest, set at one again.

saying 2036 epo, a primary verb (used only in the definite past tense, the others being borrowed from 2046, 4483 and 5346); to speak or say (by word or writing):-----answer, bid, bring word, call, command, grant, say (on), speak tell. Compare 3004.

Men 435 

you 5210

are 2075

brothers 80

why 2444 hinati, from 2443 and 5101; for what reason?, i.e. why?:----wherefore, why.

why (1828 Dict. def.): [The original phrase is for what or for why.]

1. For what cause or reason, relatively. No ground of enmity why he should mean me ill. Milton.
2. For which cause or reason; for which; relatively.

wrong 91 adikeo, from 94; to be unjust, i.e. (active) do wrong (morally, socially or physically):-----hurt, injure, be an offender, be unjust, (do, suffer, take) wrong.

 94 akikos, from G1 (as a negative particle) and 1349; unjust; by extension wicked; by implication treacherous; specifically heathen:-----unjust, unrighteous.

one another 240 allelon, genitive plural from 243 reduplication; one another:----each other, mutual, one another, (the other), themselves, yourselves, selves, (selves) together [sometimes with 3326 or 4314].