{Holy ground} (g(8820)hagia). The priests were barefooted when
they ministered in the temple. Moslems enter their mosques
barefooted today. Cf.  Jos 5:15 . {Sandal} (hupod(886d)a, bound
under) is here "a distributive singular" (Hackett). Even the
ground near the bush was "holy," a fine example for Stephen's
argument.