Acts 7:28; John 18:10; John 18:11; John 18:25-27
Suffer wrong - The wrong or injury was, that the Egyptian was smiting the Hebrew, Exodus 2:11-12 . Smote the Egyptian - He slew him, and bur...
Moses. Stephen describes the growth of the people, the change of ruler and his oppression, as in Exodus 1. Acts 7:20 . fair unto God ( mg. ):...
seeing. Greek. eidon. App-133. suffer wrong . being wronged. Greek. adikeo. Compare App-128. defended. Greek. amunomai. Only here. ave...
24. When he saw a certain man. Moses came not to this spectacle by chance, but forasmuch as God had appointed him to be the deliverer of his...
And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him , and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian: Smote the Egyptian - See this e...
And seeing one of them suffer, &c.— See Exodus 2:11 where the word is מכה meche, which sometimes signifies to smite so as to kill; and th...
And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian: And seeing one of them suff...
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...
And avenged him. — The Greek phrase is noticeable as identical with that used by St. Luke ( Luke 18:7 ) in reporting the lesson drawn by our Lord f...
Stephen's Defense: the Deliverer from Bondage Acts 7:14-29 Moses, we are here told, was “mighty in words;” that is, in eloquence as well as in...
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...
But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, (18) Till another king arose, wh...
And seeing one of them suffer wrong ,.... Beza's Cambridge copy, and one of Stephens's, and one in the Bodleian library add, "of his own kindred": a...
And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him , and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian: Ver. 24. And avenged him ]...
When he was forty years old So long he continued in Pharaoh's court; it came into his heart Probably by an impulse from God; to visit his brethr...
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. 17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had s...
This fact of Moses some defend by the law of nature, which allows us to protect the innocent; but many things we know were done by an extraordinary w...
From Abraham to the Prophet Like Moses - Reply To The Charge of Blasphemy Against God and Moses (7:2-43). The only way Stephen had of replying to...
‘But when he was almost forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel. And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he...
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 7:18 . Another king which knew not Joseph .—This was Aahmes, the first monarch of the eighteenth dynasty, “a prince of gre...
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...
Acts 7:14-17 . Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls. So Jacob went down into Egy...
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...
In which time Moses was born. Moses, a man of God and a man of the people I. From the people, according to flesh and blood. II. Above the pe...
And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren. The patriotism of Moses I. Long nursed--“forty years.” 1....
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...
Moses attempts to deliver his people:
And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian;
Stephen's Apology Acts 7:1-41 INTRODUCTORY WORDS After charges against Stephen had been placed, the High Priest with a show of honor, said, "A...
Seeing one wronged — Probably by one of the task masters.
24 And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian: