32And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
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Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-35)This appearance of Christ to the two disciples going to Emmaus was mentioned, and but just mentioned, before (Mark 16:12); here it is largely related. It happened the same day that Christ rose, the first day of the new world that rose with him. One of these two disciples was Cleopas or Alpheus , said by the ancients to be the brother of Joseph, Christ’s supposed father; who the other was is not ce…
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