ἐν τῇ βίβλῳ Μ.: a general reference to the Pentateuch, the following phrase, ἐπὶ τοῦ βάτου, supplying a more definite reference to the exact place in the book, the section relating to the bush. “At the bush,” i.e., Exodus 3, similarly reference might be made to Exodus 15, by the title: “at the song of Moses”. βάτος is masculine here according to the best reading; feminine in Luke 20:37. The feminine is Hellenistic, the masculine Attic. Vide Thayer's Grimm. The word occurs in Aristophanes and in the N. T.; possibly colloquial (Kennedy, Sources of N.T.G., p. 78).

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Old Testament