angels
( See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4).
Who have received the law - The Law of Moses, given on Mount Sinai. By the disposition of angels - There has been much diversity of opinion i...
Who have received the law by the (y) disposition of angels, and have not kept [it]. (y) By the ministry of angels.
have. Omit. by . unto. Greek. eis. App-104. disposition. Greek. diatage. Only here and Romans 13:2 . The Syriac reads, "by the precept"....
53. Who have received the law. They called that fury wherewith they raged against Stephen zeal of the law, as if he had been a forsaker of t...
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it . By the disposition of angels - Εις διαταγας αγγελων. After all that h...
Ye stiff-necked, &c.— "Thus have I given you a brief account of the various periods of revelation, or the several dispensations of God to man,...
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it. Who have received , х Hoitines ( G3748 ) elabete ( G2983...
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, a...
By the disposition of angels] RV 'as it was ordained by angels'; RM 'as the ordinance of angels.' The precise meaning is uncertain, but some kind o...
Who have received... — More accurately, who received. By the disposition of angels. — Better, as ordained of angels; or, more literally, as...
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 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 nati...
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. (52) Which of the prophets hav...
Who have received the law, by the disposition of angels ,.... Who attended the angel that spake to Moses on Mount Sinai, Acts 7:38 who is the head...
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it . Ver. 53. And have not kept it ] The Jews were so far from being a...
Ye stiff-necked , &c. Stephen, finding by a confused murmur in the place that they understood whither his discourse tended, and perceiving by th...
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 s...
Stephen's Address. 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do a...
The disposition of angels: or ministry of angels; the commandments were published from them ministerially; or the Son of God, (called an Angel, A...
Reply to the Charge of Speaking Against the Law and the Temple (7:44-53). Having been accused of speaking against the Law Stephen defends himself...
“You who received the law as it was ordained by angels, and did not keep it.” But, he is saying, it is not really surprising that they had rejected...
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...
CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 7:45 . Our fathers that came after should be simply our fathers. Jesus is Joshua , as in Hebrews 4:8 . Into (lit....
Acts 6 ; Acts 7 Stephen. From the history of Stephen we learn: I. That fidelity to truth provokes antagonism; holiness and sin are mutually rep...
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 defe...
Then said the high priest, Are these things so? The high priest and his question This functionary was probably Theophilus, son-in-law of Caiaph...
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears. Stephen’s change of tone I. Justified. 1. This was not the first Christian sermon that t...
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 (s...
The peroration:
who have received the Law by the disposition of angels; and have not kept it. Stephen had now reviewed the whole history of the Jews, showing in w...
Deuteronomy 33:2 ; Exodus 20:26 ; Ezekiel 20:18-21 ; Galatians 3:19 ; Galatians 6:13 ; Hebrews 2:2 ; John 7:19 ; Psalms 68:17 ; Romans 2:23-...
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...
Who have received the law by the administration of angels — God, when he gave the law on Mount Sinai, was attended with thousands of his angels, G...
53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.