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Sinai
Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament
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The peninsula between the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Akabah; also one of the high peaks there. The peninsula is usually called in Scripture ‘the desert (or wilderness) of Sinai.’ St. Stephen (Acts 7:30) recalls how an angel of the Lord appeared to Moses ‘in the wilderness of mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.’ Mount Sinai was a sacred mountain from very early times, being possibly connected with the worship of the Babylonian moon-god Sin. In the Jewish tradition it was sacred to Jahweh, and was memorable as the place where God gave to Moses the ‘lively oracles’ (Acts 7:38). See, further, Mount, Mountain. For Galatians 4:24 f. see Hagar.
J. W. Duncan.
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Sinai'. Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdn/s/sinai.html. 1906-1918.
Hastings, James. Entry for 'Sinai'. Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdn/s/sinai.html. 1906-1918.
