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mō´shun: In 2 Esd 6:14, the King James Version “motion†represents the Latin commotio, “commotion,†“disturbance†(the Revised Version (British and American) has revised entirely here). In , “the motions of sins, which were by the law,†“motion†is used in the sense of “impulse,†and “impulses†would probably give the best translation. But the Greek noun (παθηÌματα, patheÌ„Ìmata) is hard to translate exactly, and the Revised Version (British and American) has preferred “passions,†as in . Sanday (International Critical Commentary) paraphrases “the impressions of sense, suggestive of sin, stimulated into perverse activity by their legal prohibition.†See PASSION. “Motion†is found also in Wisd 5:11 (the King James Version and the Revised Version margin) and 7:24 (the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American)) in a modern sense.