Albert Barnes on Mark 7:34
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Mark7:34
Looking up to heaven. To lift up the eyes to heaven is an act imploring aid from God, and denotes an attitude of prayer, Ps 121:1,2, Mk 6:41, Jn 11:41.
He sighed. Pitying the sufferings of the man who stood before him,
Ephphatha. This word is Syriac, the language which our Lord used in addressing the man, and means, "Be opened."
(g) "And looking up to heaven" Mk 6:41, Jn 11:41, 17:1 (h) "he sighed" Jn 11:33,38
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