Acts 8:33

In humiliation his justice was taken away. The descendants of him who will tell? Because he is taken away from HA'ARETZ CHAYYIM. + 8:33 Isa 53:7,8 TARGUM HASHIVIM

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.

In Context

32Now the keta (section) of the Tanakh which he was reading was this: KASEH LATEVACH YUVAL (He + 8:32 Moshiach was led as a lamb to the slaughter) and as a Seh + 8:32 Isa 53:7 (Lamb) before the one having sheared it is silent, LO YIFTACH PIV (He does not open his mouth).

34And in reply the eunuch said to Philippos, I ask you about whom the Navi (prophet) says this? About himself or about some other person?

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Cross References

Job 27:2As El liveth, Who hath taken away my mishpat, 1 and Shaddai, Who hath saddened my nefesh; 1

Psalms 22:15I am poured out like mayim, 1 and all my atzmot are out of joint; 1 my lev is like wax; 1 it is melted away within me. 1

Isaiah 5:23Which justify the rasha for shochad (bribe), 1 and take away the tzidkat tzaddikim from him! 1

Isaiah 53:8He was taken from prison and from judgment; 1 and who of his generation declared? 1 For he was cut off + 53:8 Dan 9:26; Lv 17:10 out of Eretz Chayyim + 53:8 this refers to the mot of Moshiach Ben Dovid, see v.12 1 mipesha ami (for the transgression of my people [Yisroel]), 1 nega + 53:8 cf. Ps 91:10 (plague) lamo ([fell] on him). + 53:8 i.e., Moshiach; in light of Ps 11:7 and Job 22:2 we are warranted in saying the suffix is a singular, “him,” not “them”. Cf Gn 9:26-27; Dt 33:2; Isa 44:15 ; also compare 1Chr 21:17 1

Isaiah 53:12Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, 1 and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; 1 because he hath poured out his nefesh unto mavet (death); 1 and he was numbered with the transgressors; 1 and he nasah + 53:12 Lv 16:22 (bore) [like the Yom Kippur scapegoat] the sin of many, 1 and made intercession + 53:12 did the work of a mafgi'a, intercessor for the transgressors. + 53:12 See Lk 23:34

Habakkuk 1:4Therefore the torah is slacked, 1 and mishpat (judgment) doth never prevail; 1 for the rasha doth hem in the tzadik; 1 therefore mishpat (justice) proceedeth perverted. 1

Matthew Henry on Acts 8:27-40

Philip and the Ethiopian. 26 And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. 27 And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, 28 Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet. 29 Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join… Read the whole commentary →

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