Acts 7 verse 36

Acts 7 verse 36

He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.    (KJV)

This one led them out, working wonders and miracles in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and forty years in the wilderness.      (IB)

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Retranslation: 
         This one, roused from the sleep of Confinement, having collected his spiritual senses and now awake, led others to the Market Place of Ideas, and the Street of Learning, where they could buy the redeeming ideas of Truth with the honest labor of self-instruction and the humble service of listening to their Leader.

This one worked “wonders and miracles” in the land of Confinement, in the Red Sea, “the dark ebbing and flowing tides of human fear”, and in the loneliness of doubt*, the wilderness  called: Seek ye repentance.

This one, performed prodigies of learning, acquiring extraordinary knowledge of Something before unknown through remarkable instruction and study beyond the common order or method; wonderful experiences, not in accordance with established laws or principles; rare and special observations that were not customary in the land of Confinement; and through other signs, tokens, and indications sufficient for the purpose of discovering what was not before known in the world of Limits.

*Doubt, L. dubare, to be in two minds. 

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This one 3778 

led out 1806 exago, from 1537 and 59; to lead forth:---bring forth (out), fetch (lead) out.

59 agorazo, from 58; properly to go to market, i.e. (by implication) to purchase; specifically to redeem:-----buy, redeem.

58 agora, from ageiro (to gather; probably akin to 1453); properly the town-square (as a place of public resort); by implication a market or thoroughfare:-----market, marketplace, street.

1453 egeiro, probably akin to the base of 58 (through the idea of collecting one’s faculties); to waken (transitive or intransitive), i.e. rouse (literally from sleep, from sitting or lying, from disease, from death; or figuratively from obscurity, inactivity, ruins, nonexistence):----awake, lift (up), raise (again, up), rear up, rise (again, up), stand, take up.

them 846

doing 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.

wonders 5059 teras, of uncertain affinity; a prodigy or omen:-----wonder.

prodigy (1828 Dict. def.): [L. prodigium, from prodigio, to shoot out, drive out, properly to spread to a great extent.]

1. Anything out of the ordinary process of nature, and so extraordinary as to excite wonder or astonishment; as a prodigy of learning.
2. Something extraordinary from which omens are drawn; portent. Thus eclipses and meteors were anciently deemed prodigies.

learn (ibid.) To acquire knowledge or ideas of something before unknown. We learn things by instruction, by study, and by experience and observation. It is much easier to learn what is right, than to unlearn what is wrong.

“Now learn the parable of the fig tree.”  Matt. xxiv.

portent (ibid.) An omen of ill; any previous sign or prodigy indicating the approach of evil or calamity.

extraordinary (ibid.): L. extraordinarius, from ordo, order.]

1. Beyond or out of the common order or method; not in the usual, customary or regular course; not ordinary.
2. Exceeding common degree or measure; hence, remarkable; uncommon; rare; wonderful.
3. Special; particular; sent for a special purpose, or on a special occasion; as an extraordinary courier or messenger.

regular (ibid.): [L. regularis, from regula, a rule, from rego, to rule.]

1. Conformed to a rule; agreeable to an established rule, law or principle, to a prescribed mode or to established customary forms; as a regular epic poem; a regular verse in poetry; a regular piece of music; regular practice of law or medicine; a regular plan; a regular building.
2. Governed by rule or rules; steady or uniform in a course or practice; as regular in diet; regular in attending on divine worship.
3. In geometry, a regular figure is one whose sides and angles are equal, as a square, a cube, or an equilateral triangle. Regular figures of more than three or four sides are usually called regular polygons.
4. Instituted or initiated according to established forms or discipline; as a regular physician.
5. Methodical; orderly; as a regular kind of sensuality or indulgence.
6. Periodical; as the regular return of day and night; a regular trade wind or monsoon.
7. Pursued with uniformity or steadiness; as a regular trade.

signs 4592 semeion, neuter of a presumed derivative of the base of 4591; an indication, especially ceremonial or supernatural:-----miracle, sign, token, wonder.

indication (ibid.): [L. indico, in + dico, to show.]
1.  The act of pointing out.

2.  Mark; token; sign; symptom; whatever serves to discover what is not before known,    or otherwise obvious.

The frequent stops they make in the most convenient places, are plain
 indications of their weariness.   Addison.
3.  In medicine, any symptom or occurrence in a disease, which serves to direct to suitable remedies.
4.  Discovery made; intelligence given.
5.  Explanation; display.

Indicate (ibid.):

1. To show; to point out; to discover; to direct the mind to a knowledge of something not seen, or something that will probably occur in the future. Thus, fermentation indicates a certain degree of heat in a liquor. A heavy swell of the sea in calm weather often indicates a storm at a distance. A particular kind of cloud in the west at evening indicates the approach of rain.

in 1722

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.

Egypt 125 Aigyptos, of uncertain derivation; Aegyptus, the land of the Nile:----Egypt.

H4714 misrayim, dual of H4693; Misrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt:----Egypt, Egyptians, Mizraim.

H4693 masor, the same as 4692 in the sense of a limit; Egypt (as the border of Palestine):

---besieged places, defense, fortified.

H4692 masor or masur, from 6696; something hemming in, i.e. (objectively) a mound (of besiegers), (abstractly) a siege, (figuratively) distress; or (subjectively) a fastness:

----besieged, bulwark, defense, fenced, fortress, siege, hold, strong hold, tower.

H6696 sur, a primitive root; to cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literal or figurative, formative or hostile):------adversary, assault, beset, besiege, bind, bind up, cast, distress, fashion, fortify, inclose, lay siege, put up in bags.

in 1722

Red 2063 erythros, of uncertain affinity; red, i.e. (with 2281) the Red Sea:----red.

Sea 2281 thalassa, probably prolonged from 251; the sea (generally or specifically):----sea.

251 hals, a primary word; “salt”:----salt.

The Red Sea: “the dark ebbing and flowing tides of human fear”   SH p. 566:2.

in 1722

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

5561 chora, feminine of a derivative of the base of 5490 through the idea of empty expanse; room, i.e. a space of territory (more of less extensive; often including its inhabitants):----region, ground, fields, land, county, coast. Compare 5117.

Wilderness. Loneliness; doubt; darkness. Spontaneity of thought and idea; the vestibule in which a material sense of things disappears, and spiritual sense unfolds the great facts of existence. SH p. 597:16.

forty 5062 + years 2094 = repentance completed sufficiently = self-sacrifice understood as necessary = capacity to obey is now possible