When I had looked intently at it, I considered, and saw the four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky.
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When I had looked intently at it, I considered, and saw the four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky.
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Into the which when I had fastened myn eyes I consydered and sawe fowerfoted beastes of the erth and vermen and wormes and foules of the ayer.
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Towarde the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and sawe foure footed beastes of the earth, and wilde beastes, and creeping things, and foules of the heauen.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Fastened mine eyes; it speaketh his great intention of…
Fastened mine eyes; it speaketh his great intention of mind upon it; God so ordering of it, that it might leave the greater impression upon him.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes,....…
Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes,.... Not of his body, but of his mind; for this was only in vision presented to him, when he was as Paul was, not knowing whether in the body or out of it:
I considered: being intent upon this object, he considered in his mind what it was, and what it should mean; it being something strange and unusual; which came down from heaven, and out of it, and came so close and near to him, that it engrossed all his thoughts, and was the subject of deep meditation:
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and saw four-footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air; not pourtrayed upon the sheet, but standing or walking upon it; the Syriac Version leaves out, "the wild beasts"; and the Ethiopic versions, "the creeping things"; but both are in the Greek copies, and in other versions.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 6. I considered] Better, “I beheld.”
6. I considered] Better, “I beheld.”
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (6) Upon the which when I had fastened mine…
(6) Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered.—Here again we trace the same kind of vividness as in the previous verse. The Apostle recalls the intense eager gaze with which he had looked on the strange vision.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The four-footed for four-footed, A.V.; heaven for air, A.V.
The four-footed for four-footed, A.V.; heaven for air, A.V.
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J. W. McGarvey 1914 · Public Domain See notes one verse 4
See notes one verse 4
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