BURNING BUSH

Updated 05-May-2020.

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Bible Gateway passage: Exodus 3:1-4:17 – New Revised Standard Version: Moses at the Burning Bush – Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush; he looked, and the bush was blazing, yet it was not consumed. Then Moses said, “I must turn aside and look at this great sight, and see why the bush is not burned up.” When the LORD saw that he had turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” Then he said, “Come no closer! Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”

The Reformation Study Bible | About | The Symbol of the Burning Bush in Church History: “He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.” (Ex. 3:2)

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: the burning bush is described by the book of exodus as being located on Mount Horeb . according to the biblical narrative, the bush was on fire, but was not consumed by the flames, hence the name . the seneh () may be a deliberate pun on Sinai (), a feature common in Hebrew texts . some Old Testament scholars regard the account of the burning bush as being spliced together from the in the text, Yahweh instructs Moses to take “this staff” in his hands . some scholars say this instruction is the Elohist’s version of the more detailed earlier description . despite signs, Moses lighting a match near flowers and seedpods causes the plant to be enveloped by flame . flame quickly extinguishes without injury to the plant . they conclude that Dictamnus spp. in the 4th century, under the Byzantine Empire, the monastery built there was abandoned . in modern times, it is not Mount Saint Catherine, but the adjacent Jebel Musa (Mount Moses) this identification some modern scholars favor locations in the Hijaz, northern Arabah, or the Sinai Peninsula . if the burning bush ever existed, it is highly unlikely to be the bush preserved at St Catherine’s Monastery the icon’s feast day is held on 4 September . Eastern Orthodoxy believes that the angel was also heard by Moses . the french motto Flagror non consumor – “I am burned but not consumed” the current symbol of the Reformed Church of France is a burning bush with the Huguenot cross . the motto of the Church of Scotland is Nec tamen consumebatur, Latin for “yet it was the burning bush is also the symbol of the Presbyterian Church in Canada crest . the Quran states that Musa observed a fire and instructed the family to wait until he returned with fire for them . Musa was commanded some varieties of Acacia trees that grow in the holy land contain this substance . in his article Biblical Entheogens: a speculative hypothesis, Shanon details parallels between effects of entheogene