“ Hath not my hand made all these things? ”
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...
not. Greek. ouchi. App-105. Freely quoted from Isaiah 66:1 ; Isaiah 66:2 .
50. Hath not mine hand? The prophet telleth the people in these words, that God hath no need either of gold, either of precious furniture of the temple, either of the sacrifices; whereupon i...
Hath not my hand made all these things? Hath not my hand made all these things? - Stephen certainly had not finished his discourse, nor drawn his inferences from the facts already stated; but it is l...
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,—...
Hath not my hand made all these things? Hath not my hand made all these things? The prophet goes on to say that the chosen and proper resting-place of Yahweh is the "contrite heart that tremb...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Hath not my hand made all these things ? The heaven, and the earth, and all that is in them; the Arabic version renders it, "all these creatures"; and therefore what can be made for God? or what hou...
Hath not my hand made all these things? Ver. 50. Hath not mine hand made all these things? ] Therefore I need not your handiwork, though I am pleased to accept of it; which you are to look upon a...
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...
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...
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...
As appears in the history of the creation, Genesis 1:1 . It is spoken unto our capacity after the manner of men, and implies that God is too great to stand in need of temples or offerings; and tha...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 )....
The Tabernacle and the Temple:
Acts 14:15 ; Exodus 20:11 ; Isaiah 40:28 ; Isaiah 44:24 ; Isaiah 45:12 ; Isaiah 45:7 ; Isaiah 45:8 ; Jeremiah 10:11 ; Jeremiah 32:17 ; Psalms 146:5 ; Psalms 146:6 ; Psalms 33:6-9 ; Psalm...
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...