the heavens and earth, and of all outward enjoyments: and this He admonishes all of his congregation, "let us fear" with a Godly fear to enter into God's rest. Changed is from ALLASSO which Thayer defines, "To exchange one thing for another." and perfections, in his person, and offices, in the virtue of his But, contrastively, the person remains the same, and of God’s person the years shall not fail; they shall roll forever onward. The author of Hebrews is concerned for his readers because they have not risen above the elementary teachings of the gospel. But Thou art the same, and Thy years shall not fail. Hebrews 1:12, ESV: "like a robe you will roll them up, like a garment they will be changed. —By a figure of great majesty in this verse God is an infinite Person, and the universe is his immense raiment. Septuagint, Psalms 102:26 [ helixeis (Greek #1667)]; but Hebrew, 'change them.' AB and the oldest MS. of Vulg. See more. Copyright © 2021, Bible Study Tools. He is the same. The years of the heavens and the earth are numbered, and shall fail, not so the years of the Son of God, the Ancient of days. If the 'something better' is to be understood as the heavenly reward we ourselves await, that seems problematic to me in that it would suggest that these OT saints were excluded from that. This is shown by His being represented as seated on His eternal throne, Hebrews 1:8; and not only having in His character of mediator the preeminence over all those with whom he had condescended to unite himself, but as the Creator of all things. expect a continuance of blessings from him; all supplies of grace New Testament and Second Temple Judaism scholar Eric Mason argues that the conceptual background of the priestly Christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews closely parallels presentations of the messianic priest and Melchizedek in the Qumran scrolls. A vesture is a covering piece, to be folded up or discarded when no longer useful. Now Faith Is the Substance. I think all Christians can agree that our text is surely meat. See Luke 16:9; Luke 22:32; Luke 23:45. Jan 6, 2020 Nov 8, 2019 by Editor in Chief. the Vulgate Latin version reads as the Hebrew does, and one of He was always with the Father, He will always be with the Father. This sense of the original is rendered by the LXX. God created nothing in vain; annihilation means any substance being reduced to nothing. III. In order to lay them aside, and make no use of them in the manner peribolaion. Hebrews uses Old Testament quotations interpreted in light of first-century rabbinical Judaism. The invincible power of the unchangeable love of God, III. “Shalt thou fold them up.” That is, the heavens. Only here and 1 Corinthians 11:5. He is the same. They are not new because they are a fresh modification of the old materials! This is said with reference to the earth and the other parts of the material universe related to it. Hebrews 1:12 God's mind is absolutely undivided. In practical application, this means that His sovereignty can never be separated from His love; His grace cannot be separated from His omniscience; His judgment cannot be separated from either His mercy or His wrath. The invincible power of the unchangeable love of God is in this revelation of experience made more abundantly plain when we consider the unchangeableness of God’s love in relation to our sense of a fate that binds us to be what we have always been. Hebrews The Supremacy of God’s Son. The Call Of God. Earth and sky will be folded like a coat. Shall not be ended. The broad lesson of the redeeming love of God, which is writ large for us in the Christmas mystery of God coming down into a world of sin, is reflected in our own experience of its truth and confirmed to be the ground of a future and immediate hope. At each step in the lesson of life and of experience we see that God is the same, because His compassions fail not, they are new every morning—the same love which we have known all along unfolds fresh glories of hope. This redeeming power of God to recreate good out of evil, II. But Paul heard the gospel directly from the risen Lord Jesus Christ (Gal. He was always with the Father, He will always be with the Father. How transcendently excellent is He, who is immutable and eternal, for state and name above angels! peribolaion- and denoting properly the outer garment, the cloak or mantle; see notes, but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail, I. Hebrews 1:12. ἀλλάξεις, Thou shalt change .— ἀλλαγήσονται, they shall be changed) Many read for ἀλλάξεις, ἑλίξεις: but there is the one verb חלף twice in the Hebrew, which the LXX. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. The same in nature, therefore in covenant faithfulness to thy people. other; and to strengthen our faith in Christ, and encourage us to The expression "changed" merits attention. . CHAPTER 1. Here we see Christ's uncaused continuance of being. Wherefore (as being the antitype of the sin-offering on the day of atonement: “ut ille typus veteris testamenti impleretur, illa figura quæ est de carnibus extra castra comburendis,” Est.) Ver. . Hebrews 3:14 For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end, (New American Standard Bible) Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. They haven't grown spiritually. Changed - as one lays aside a garment to put on another. “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. The Meaning of Hebrews 13:2—Entertaining Strangers With Love. But you remain the same, and your years will never end.'". (9)— ὁ αὐτὸς) הוא, the same, never another (anything different), without old age and change. Hebrews 9:12 New International Version (NIV) The meaning and therefore the translation of this verse are in several languages controversial and therefore important for debunking, or upholding, the sanctuary doctrine as taught by Seventh-day Adventists. Only here, and Luke 16:9; Luke 22:32. As a result, many Christians have spent a considerable amount of time and energy seeking to understand the correct inte… I was seeking to demonstrate that the difficulty of our text and even the differences in the way we interpret it are by divine design. (New American Standard Bible) Next, let us review each of the various translated words for hupostasis. Hebrews 11:1-12 KJV. After these words the lxx repeats ὡς ἱμάτιον asa garment from Hebrews 1:11. He is the unchangeable Jehovah. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. (See 2 Peter 3:10-13; Revelation 21:1.) “And thy years shall not fail.” Thou wilt exist forever unchanged. In the depth of His humiliation He is acknowledged as the great Creator, and assured that the children of His servants should continue, and their seed be established before Him. Jesus also, that He might sanctify (see on ch. Proud member Nothing can change Him, nothing can defeat Him. God cannot change. I. Not so the angels, who are a type of Creation. They are represented in the Scriptures as an “expanse.” or something spread out (the Hebrew text of Genesis 1:7): as a “curtain,” or “tent” Isaiah 40:22, and as a “scroll” that might be spread out or rolled up like a book or volume, Isaiah 34:4; Revelation 6:14. Answer: Hebrews 12:2 says that we should be “fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. You will fold them up. Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is alive and active. The author’s goal is to motivate his readers to take the Scriptures more seriously and to move from milk to meat. They shall be changed — Into new heavens and a new earth. Note the word exchanged, rather than changed,* for there shall be a new Heaven and a new earth, in place of the old, which shall utterly pass away. The unchanging love of God shows itself in a perpetual surprise. (12) And as a vesture . they now are; just as clothes, when they are grown old, or out of which Jarchi interprets the Hebrew phrase thus, ``as a man turns his garment to put it off;''. The Son (as the Logos) is UNCREATE! YHWH, God of the Hebrews (יהוה אלהי העברים, Exodus 3:18 (only here spelled עבריים, or the Hebrewish-ians), (5:3), 7:16, 9:1, 9:13, 10:3), he who is, was and will be, liberated his people, and kept them and instructed them on their forty year trek through the Arabian wilderness (מדבר, midbar, from דבר, dabar, meaning word, as in the phrase Dabar-YHWH; the Word of God). For it is not mere unchangeableness with which we are face to face. Shall not fail - Hebrew, 'end.' In our last lesson, I attempted to look at the big picture so far as our text in Hebrews 6is concerned. But see Revelation 6:14. fail. fashion, are folded up, and laid aside from use at present, or But you are always the same. Greek. And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up: As a mantle shalt thou roll them up, as a garment also shall they be changed—. Article Images Copyright © 2021 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. Hebrews 1:12, NIV: "You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed. vesture. We know in the history of our own souls how God can renew the life, out of the materials in which our own sins and failings have left it to Him to work, can rebuild the story of our hope. “Thou art the same.” Thou wilt not change. Hebrews 4:1-13 Enter God's Rest . Not so the angels, who are a type of Creation. This is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end of the Creation of God.’. He has given them a stern rebuke of spiritual immaturity (Heb. So 1 Samuel 2:10 יהוה, LXX. As usual, the author follows the Septuagint text. Isaiah 53:10; Isaiah 59:21. Vat. Onlyhere and 1 Corinthians 11:15. fold . up = roll . Always it achieves something far beyond what we hoped for or desired. Greek. Applying the Psalm from verse24to Christ, all is plain and easy. Hebrews 11:1, KJV: "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Even had the Apostle not applied Psalm 102:24-27 to Christ, we might have been led to it by the last verse: "The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee." And they shall be changed - Not destroyed ultimately, or annihilated. 12. ‘Thou art the same, and Thy years shall not fail.’. It is the unchangeableness of the invincible and eternal love of God with which we are face to face. The meaning is, that the present form of the heavens and the earth is not to be permanent, but is to be succeeded by others, or to pass away, but that the Creator is to remain the same. But you are the same, and your years will have no end.”". More specifically, does Hebrews 6:1-12 teach this? Hebrews 1:12. καὶ ὡσεὶ περιβόλαιον ἑλίξεις αὐτοὺς καὶ ἀλλαγήσονται] and as a cloak (something flung about one) wilt Thou roll them up, and they shall become changed. He is a true shepherd of his flock. Hebrews 1:12. His assumption of the humanity to his person made no alteration in him, being still the same most excellent person as ever, Malachi 3:1,6 1 Corinthians 12:5. 'The former earth and heaven passed away.' may serve to take off the heart from the one, and set it upon the See Hiller, Onom., p. 71, 262. But He will never cease to be (as will the material universe), and in that sense His years shall not fail. And they shall be changed; by him they shall be altered, and made more glorious by new modelling them, changing of them into a better state, Isaiah 34:4 65:17 66:22: compare 2 Peter 3:10-13. In the Hebrew text it is, "as a All rights reserved. Vesture, [ peribolaion (Greek #4018)] - 'an enwrapping cloak.'. The crowning wonder of His Redemption. fail; There is a notable difference in Heb 10:5 , where the Masoretic text reads “ears you have dug for me” (“ears open to obedience you gave me,” NAB), but most Septuagint manuscripts have “a body you prepared for me,” a reading obviously more suited to the interpretation of Hebrews. . presents ἑλίξεις; and this is also most probably the reading followed by the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews in our passage. continuance, in opposition to the fading and transitory nature of garment is changed by folding it, or turning it; agreeably to If I say 'A new man-of-war graced the port of Plymouth, for the old Victory foundered in the Atlantic'--none would suspect me of asserting that the old vessel was fished up, and that its timbers, rearranged, constituted the new vessel. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1, ESV: "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." abideth for ever, John 12:34, and ruleth, as foretold, Luke 1:33 1 Peter 4:11. and an annihilation, are two things: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not Earth and sky will be folded like a coat. Composition. For the unchangeableness of the love is shown in its unfailingly progressive manifestation. Hebrews 8:1-12 New International Version (NIV) The High Priest of a New Covenant. II. Only here. We know nothing of annihilation; probably there is no such thing in the universe. This is a vivid description of the wonderful transformations which Omnipotence will execute in the great and radical revolutions and renovations which await the material worlds in the coming ages. Mar 5, 2020. 12. Rather, roll them up. Thou art the same. As a person takes off, folds up, and throws aside when old, his garments, so God deals with phenomenal things. . He is burdened for the spiritual well-being of his church. the very imprint of his being, and who sustains all things by his mighty word. And as a vesture - A garment; literally something thrown around - περιβόλαιον peribolaion- and denoting properly the outer garment, the cloak or mantle; see notes, Matthew 5:40. In order to lay them aside, and make no use of them in the manner they now are; just as clothes, when they are grown old, or out of fashion, are folded up, and laid aside from use at present, or are put into another form. Very frequent in lxx. Israel in Babylon, in Psalms 102:1-28, casts her hopes of deliverance on Messiah, Israel's unchanging covenant-God. And they shall be changed; as to their form and use, not as to their being; for a change, and an annihilation, are two things: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail; which is expressive of the immutability of Christ, in his nature and perfections, in his person, and offices, in the virtue of his blood, righteousness, and sacrifice; and of his duration or continuance, in opposition to the fading and transitory nature of the heavens and earth, and of all outward enjoyments: and this may serve to take off the heart from the one, and set it upon the other; and to strengthen our faith in Christ, and encourage us to expect a continuance of blessings from him; all supplies of grace now, and eternal glory hereafter. Psalm 22:30-31; Psalm 45:16; Psalm 69:36. But thou art the same] As in essence, so in will and counsel. often translate ἀλλάσσω, never by ἑλίσσω. Yet it is indubitably spoken of the Messiah, and must demonstrate that he is divine. 1:12-17). For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Fold them up. The word is used, chap. And as a mantle shalt Thou roll them up, As a garment, and they shalt be exchanged: What an expression and prophecy! Hebrews 5 • The Greater High Priest Hebrews 8 • A Better Covenant. ekleipo. 3 who is the refulgence of his glory,. Hebrews 1:12 NIV Hebrews 1:12 NLT Hebrews 1:12 ESV Hebrews 1:12 NASB Hebrews 1:12 KJV Hebrews 1:12 BibleApps.com Hebrews 1:12 Biblia Paralela Hebrews 1:12 Chinese Bible Hebrews 1:12 French Bible Hebrews 1:12 Clyx Quotations NT Letters: Hebrews 1:12 … The author of the book of Hebrews has a pastor's heart. according to the reading of the Cod. Isaiah 34:4; Revelation 6:14); sometimes the Hebrew; sometimes varying from both. And let … Salem Media Group. Hebrews 13:2 teaches us how to treat the Lord's return—entertaining strangers with love. As a mantle shalt thou roll them up, as a garment also shall they be changed—a quotation from Psalms 102, with the words ‘as a garment’ added, on the authority of the best MSS. Question: "What is the meaning of Hebrews 12:2?" (9) — ὁ αὐτὸς) הוא, the same, never another (anything different), without old age and change. - Hebrews 13:2. The heavens and the earth are to be lolled up as done with, and they are to be changed for a new heaven and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 1 Long ago, at many times and a in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 2 but b in these last days c he has spoken to us by d his Son, whom he appointed e the heir of all things, f through whom also he created g the world. have ἑλίξεις D( δ) corrected, f, and Victor’s Vulg., have ἀλλάξεις.—ED. : καὶ ὡσεὶ περιβόλαιον ἀλλάξεις αὐτοὺς καὶ ἀλλαγήσονται; whereas the Cod. ‘From moods of moral depression we rise to a real and living hope as we come face to face with the master truth of the unchangeableness of the Eternal God. James 1:17. As a person takes off, folds up, and throws aside when old, his garments, so God deals with phenomenal things. From περιβάλλειν tothrow around: a wrapper, mantle. Hebrews 6:1–12 The Peril of Falling Away. Hebrews 12:1. Hebrews 2:11) the people (see on ch. He is not only declared to be superior to angels, but to be "over all, God blessed for ever." Defining Faith: 3 Easy Steps To Unlocking Its Meaning. Hebrews 2:17) through His own blood, suffered (see on ch. the Vulgate Latin version reads as the Hebrew does, and one of the manuscripts of New College, Oxford. May 28, 2020 by Editor in Chief. But thou art the same: the identity of this Person is opposed to the changeableness of excellent creatures, and showeth him to be what he is here entitled, Jehovah, Hebrews 13:8. But thou art eternally the same. 5:11-14). But the language and thought forms are not like those of Paul. With this exception the verb only in Luke's Gospel. 12 And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail. What could more clearly prove that he of whom this is spoken is immutable? We hear also Isa. “Thou wilt roll them away like a book, and they shall be changed.” Books of olden time were skins of animals inscribed and rolled up like a side of leather. which is expressive of the immutability of Christ, in his nature California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. blood, righteousness, and sacrifice; and of his duration or The language, however, in the case before us, is borrowed from the custom of folding up, laying aside, garments that have become unfit for use. And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up: peribolaion is an upper garment, cloak, or coat, which a man puts on or casts off at his pleasure; when it is of no more use it is folded up and laid by: so the great gospel Minister, God the Son incarnate, shall roll up the natural heavens when useless, and lay them by. In this quotation we have another most explicit testimony to the supreme Divinity of Christ. Hebrews definition, a book of the New Testament. The Son is eternal. The course of thought is easily traced: as the garment which has grown old is rolled up and changed, so the former heavens and earth shall give place to the new heavens and the new earth. ", Covert says of the new heavens and the new earth: "Both heavens and earth are _new. However, the content of the book, including the frequent references to the Hebrew Scriptures, makes it clear that he was writing to Jewish Christians who were sorely tempted to leave the Christian church and revert to Jewish worship. The Study Bookmark for Hebrews [ view samples ] 1 per page [ pdf ] 4 per page [ pdf ] Introduction. If Paul did not write Hebrews, who did? "The course of thought is easily traced: as the garment which has grown old is rolled up and changed, so the former heavens and earth shall give place to the new heavens and the new earth."--Moulton. Alex. changed — as one lays aside a garment to put on another. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, three in One, are not dependent, but are seen to all eternity-past, and to come! The context shows that the apostle Paul was referring to the message, or expression of God’s purpose, such as we find in the Bible. Thy years shall not fail - There is in the Divine duration no circle to be run, no space to be measured, no time to be reckoned. of And like a mantle You will roll them up ; Like a garment they will also be changed . Old word for covering from παριβαλλω — pariballō to fling around, as a veil in 1 Corinthians 11:15, nowhere else in N.T. See 2 Peter 3:10-13. Amidst all the changes which he would effect on the works of His hands, in order to adapt them to His infinitely wise purposes, He remains for ever the same, and with Him there is no variableness or shadow of turning. And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall he changed.—The first creation shall, like a vesture, be folded up and laid aside. In order to lay them aside, and make no use of them in the manner they now are; just as clothes, when they are grown old, or out of fashion, are folded up, and laid aside from use at present, or are put into another form. Abbreviation: Heb. Hebrews 1:12. Here they are represented as a garment or mantle that might be folded up - language borrowed from folding up and laying aside garments that are no longer fit for use. When he had accomplished purification from sins, 12.As a vesture—By a figure of great majesty in this verse God is an infinite Person, and the universe is his immense raiment. The Mindset Of A Dreamer. A mantle (περιβολαιον — peribolaion). “And they shall be changed.” That is, they shall be exchanged for others, or they shall give place to the new heavens and the new earth; 2 Peter 3:13. ", To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. These attributes cannot be conferred on a creature; and nothing can be clearer than that he who penned the Epistle believed that the Son of God was divine. shall not fail — Hebrew, “shall not end.” Israel, in the Babylonian captivity, in the hundred second Psalm, casts her hopes of deliverance on Messiah, the unchanging covenant God of Israel. up. However, it is helpful to view Hebrews 4:12 in its broad context. This is very beautiful and consoling as applied to Christ, and exactly corresponds with many promises made to the Lord Jesus. We cannot conceive it, and we are right. And, the statement in 2:3-4 seems to indicate that the author, like his readers, was a second-generation Christian who had believed the testimony of the apostles. The crowning wonder of His Redemption is that in the redemption from sin, whether it be the redemption of the world or of our own individual character, the result which we see wrought out of the materials of our failure and our sin attains a revelation of love so perfect and complete, a progress so unfailing, so unchecked, that we cannot conceive or imagine that it could have been greater or more glorious than it is. 1 In times past, God spoke in partial and various ways to our ancestors through the prophets; 2 in these last days, he spoke to us through a son, whom he made heir of all things and through whom he created the universe, a. [9]— Ὁ ΑὐΤῸς ) הוא , the same , never another (anything different), without old age and change. Hebrews 4:12 is often cited in our publications to show that the Bible has power to change lives, and it is perfectly proper to make that application. Hebrews 12:1-12 New King James Version (NKJV) The Race of Faith. Now we are presented with the final state which succeeds.". The Son (as the Logos) is UNCREATE! In the original: As the vesture dost Thou change them, and they are changed. Romans 9:5. as to their form and use, not as to their being; for a change, Thou art the same (Isaiah 46:4; Malachi 3:6). We know enough to know with absolute assurance that there is nothing we can have done or left undone which can have carried us beyond the range of the renewing power of His forgiving and recreative love. As Stuart well remarks, "The heavens are often represented as an expanse, and to roll them up, is of course to remove them. A scribal error for ἀλλάξεις shaltchange. But thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.—This is a most decided testimony to the supreme Divinity of the Lord Jesus. It means we’d better get on with it. They are finally to be discarded and dissolved, and other things will be used in their place. Hebrews 1:1-12 EXEGESIS: THE CONTEXT: The author identified neither himself nor the people to whom he was writing. And they shall be changed; But thou art the same - These words can be said of no being but God; all others are changeable or perishable, because temporal; only that which is eternal can continue essentially, and, speaking after the manner of men, formally the same. This redeeming power of God to recreate good out of evil is not merely an idea; thank God it is an experience. Can a Christian lose his or her salvation? Hebrews 1:12. As against our feeling that we have made our own fate, that our sins have laid such hold upon us that we are not able to look up, the redeeming entry of God upon His disordered world is above all the manifestation of His invincible and unchanging love, not to be diverted from its purpose, from the triumphant achievement of the will of love, by any failure of man, by any apparent impossibility of raising man from the pit into which he has sunk himself beyond the reach of human hope. The former chapter exhibited the destruction of the old creation; it had no longer any locality. thou art the same — (Isaiah 46:4; Malachi 3:6). And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up 51:6: "Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment." now, and eternal glory hereafter. vesture shalt thou change them"; but the sense is the same, for a The same in nature, therefore in covenant faithfulness to Thy people. But You are the same , And Your years will not come to an end . We misconceive the attributes of God whenever we isolate them from one another. Although the new covenant is never mentioned by name in Hebrews 11, reference to it here would certainly not be out of keeping with the book thus far. In the Hebrew text it is, "as a vesture shalt thou change them"; but the sense is the same, for a garment is changed by folding it, or turning it; agreeably to which Jarchi interprets the Hebrew phrase thus, "as a man turns his garment to put it off;'. Hebrews 6:1-3 Go on to Spiritual Maturity . https://www.insight.org/resources/bible/the-general-epistles Shalt thou fold them up ( ἑλίξεις αὐτούς ). And thy years shall not fail; as the being of God the Son is not measured nor terminated by years or time, so, in respect of his humanity, the years which were the measure of it shall never fail; for being raised from the dead, he shall die no more, but. The Lord Will Fight For You. helisso. Hebrews 1:12. ἀλλάξεις, Thou shalt change.— ἀλλαγήσονται, they shall be changed) Many read for ἀλλάξεις, ἑλίξεις: but there is the one verb חלף twice in the Hebrew, which the LXX. .—Rather (see Hebrews 1:10), And as a mantle shalt Thou roll them up; as a garment shall they also be changed. Not that Christ will never change his position in the great plan of God, for He will cease to be the king after the judgment day ( 1 Corinthians 15:24-27). The Son is eternal. Christ will be the One before Whose face earth and Heaven flee away. the manuscripts of New College, Oxford. fold them up — So the Septuagint, Psalm 102:26; but the Hebrew, “change them.” The Spirit, by Paul, treats the Hebrew of the Old Testament, with independence of handling, presenting the divine truth in various aspects; sometimes as here sanctioning the Septuagint (compare Isaiah 34:4; Revelation 6:14); sometimes the Hebrew; sometimes varying from both. 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