Judges - 13:22



22 Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, because we have seen God."

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And he said to his wife: We shall certainly die, because we have seen God.
And Manoah said to his wife, Death will certainly be our fate, for it is a god whom we have seen.
And he said to his wife, "We shall certainly die, since we have seen God."

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We shall surely die, because we have seen God - See the note on Judges 6:22.

And Manoah said unto his wife,.... Being risen from the ground, where they fell on their faces:
we shall surely die, because we have seen God; by which it appears that he not only believed him to be an angel, and not a man, but a divine Person; for though angels are sometimes called "Elohim", the word here used, yet good men were not wont to fear death, or conclude they should die on sight of an angel; but their notion was, that an appearance of God to them was death, and were surprised when it did not follow, Genesis 32:30.

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