Acts 7:49 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest? ”

• Acts 7:49 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Heaven is my throne - See the notes on Matthew 5:34 . Earth is my footstool - See the notes on Matthew 5:35 . What house ... - What house or temple can be large or magnificent enough fo...

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• Acts 7:49 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The speech comes nearer the charge it is to refute. The Temple itself is wrong. Moses acted on direct Divine injunction as to the tabernacle of witness which he made according to the pattern showed h...

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• Acts 7:49 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  earth. Greek. ge, as in Acts 7:3 . My footstool . the footstool of my feet, as in Acts 2:35 . Compare Matthew 5:35 , and see note on Matthew 22:44 . what . what kind of. rest. Greek....

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• Acts 7:49 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  49. For whereas he saith, that heaven is his seat, and the earth his footstool, it must not be so understood as if he had a body, or could be divided into parts, after the manner of men; but...

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• Acts 7:49 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?

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• Acts 7:49 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And desired to find a tabernacle, &c.— 'Ητησατο, made it his petition. From the account which the Scripture gives of David, it appears how greatly he longed to find out a place for the Lord,—...

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• Acts 7:49 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest? Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will y...

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• Acts 7:49 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Defence and Martyrdom of Stephen 1-53. Speech of Stephen. There is every reason to believe that this speech was really delivered by St. Stephen, and not composed by St. Luke; for, (1) the speech d...

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• Acts 7:49 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  a Martyr's Glorious Death Acts 7:47-60 Words like these could not be forgiven. The growing irritation of the audience seems to have extorted those burning remonstrances, and to have hastened th...

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• Acts 7:49 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The charge against Stephen was that he had spoken against the Temple and the Law. His reply consisted of a masterly review of the history of the nation from the calling of Abraham to the rejection of...

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• Acts 7:49 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush. (31) When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as h...

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• Acts 7:49 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Heaven is my throne ,.... There is the seat of the divine Majesty; there his glory is most conspicuous; there he keeps his court, that is his palace; and there are his attendants, the angels; and fr...

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• Acts 7:49 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest? Ver. 49. Heaven is my throne, and earth my footstool ] And acco...

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• Acts 7:49 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Howbeit Αλλα, but , or yet; we are not to imagine that God permitted a temple to be built even then for his own sake: for it was acknowledged, at the same time, by Solomon himself, that the Mos...

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• Acts 7:49 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  The high priest only asks the question, "Are these things so?" Then God provides room for Stephen to speak without interruption for some time. This stands in striking contrast to the way in which the...

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• Acts 7:49 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Stephen's Address.       42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets...

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• Acts 7:49 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The place referred unto, is Isaiah 66:1 . What house will ye build me, that shall be big enough for one so great as God is? 1 Kings 8:27 .

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• Acts 7:49 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  What Israel's Attitude Towards God's Dwellingplace Had Been (7:44-50). What Stephen said here would mainly have been acceptable to many Hellenistic Jews, certainly in Alexandria where they were us...

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• Acts 7:49 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 7:1 . The high priest’s question, Are these things so? analogous to that put to Christ ( Matthew 26:62 ), was equivalent to a modern “Guilty or not guilty?” Acts 7:2 . C...

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• Acts 7:49 - Scofield Reference Notes

  Lord Jehovah. ( Isaiah 66:1 ); ( Isaiah 66:2 ).

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• Acts 7:49 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Acts 6 ; Acts 7 Stephen. From the history of Stephen we learn: I. That fidelity to truth provokes antagonism; holiness and sin are mutually repellent; love and selfishness are the opposites of...

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• Acts 7:49 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The scope and design of St. Stephen's defence before the council will be better understood, if it be properly analyzed. The rulers construed his defence to import, that the glory of their temple shou...

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• Acts 7:49 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Then said the high priest, Are these things so? The high priest and his question This functionary was probably Theophilus, son-in-law of Caiaphas. The ex-officio president of the council called...

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• Acts 7:49 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Acts 7:1 And the high priest said for then said the high priest, A.V. The high priest spoke as president of the Sanhedrim (see Acts 9:1-44 . Acts 9:1 and Matthew 26:62 )....

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• Acts 7:49 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Tabernacle and the Temple:

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• Acts 7:49 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 22:19 ; Jeremiah 23:24 ; Jeremiah 7:4-11 ; John 4:21 ; Malachi 1:11 ; Matthew 23:22 ; Matthew 24:2 ; Matthew 5:34 ; Matthew 5:35 ; Psalms 11:4 ; Revelation 3:21

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• Acts 7:49 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Stephen's Last Words and Martyrdom Acts 7:44-60 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Let us, by way of opening word, speak a few words on two great benefactions to Israel (see Acts 7:44-50 ). 1. The fathers...

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• Acts 7:49 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  What is the place of my rest? — Have I need to rest?

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