Acts 8:32 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

The place. Now the context. Greek. perioche. Only here. Quoted from Isaiah 53:7, almost word for word from the Septuagint

slaughter. Greek. sphage. Only here, Romans 8:36; James 5:5.

lamb. Greek. amnos. See note on John 1:29.

dumb. Greek. aphonos, voiceless. Only here, 1Co 12:2. 1 Corinthians 14:10; 2 Peter 2:16. The usual word in the Gospels is kophos.

his shearer. the one shearing (Greek. keiro) him.

Acts 8:32

32 The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth: