Acts Chapter 7 verse 54 Holy Bible
Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
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Hearing these things, they were cut to the heart and moved with wrath against him.
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And hearing these things they were cut to the heart, and gnashed their teeth against him.
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When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
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Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.
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And hearing these things, they were cut to the hearts, and did gnash the teeth at him;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 54. - Now when for when, A.V. They were cut to the heart (see Acts 5:33 and notes).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(54) They were cut to the heart.--Literally, were sawn through and through. (See Note on Acts 5:33.) The word describes a keener pang than the "pricked" of Acts 2:37, producing, not repentance, but the frenzy of furious anger.They gnashed on him with their teeth.--The passage is worth noting as the only example of the literal use of a phrase with which we are so familiar in its figurative application (Matthew 8:12; Matthew 13:42, et al.). Here it clearly expresses brute passion rather than despair. At this point rage and fury--the fury caused by the consciousness that the stern words are true--had become altogether beyond control. They had passed beyond articulate speech into the inarticulate utterances of animal ferocity.
