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ACTS 7:3-51
In addition to several direct quotations from the Septuagint,
Stephen’s speech consists of a series of allusions to and summaries
of Israelitish history. In these phrases drawn from the O...
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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 for the dwelling o...
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CHAPTER 7
_ 1. The Address of Stephen (Acts 7:1)._
2. The Martyrdom of Stephen (Acts 7:54).
This is the largest chapter in this book and concludes the first
section. Stephen is the chosen instrumen...
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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 hi...
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STEPHEN'S DEFENCE (Acts 7:1-7)
When Oliver Cromwell was outlining the education he thought necessary
for his son Richard, he said, "I would have him know a little
history." It was to the lesson of hi...
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"It was this man who said to the sons of Israel, 'God will raise up a
prophet from among your brothers, like me.' It was this Moses who was
in the gathering of the people in the wilderness, with the a...
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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
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_Heaven is my throne_, &c. The quotation is nearly verbatim from the
LXX....
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Acts 7:1-53. STEPHEN’S DEFENCE...
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Ὁ ΟΥ̓ΡΑΝῸΣ Κ.Τ.Λ. The quotation is nearly verbatim from
the LXX....
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_THE TRUE TABERNACLE OF GOD ACTS 7:44-50:_ Israel had the tabernacle
of witness. The tabernacle was built according to the pattern shown
Moses. The Tabernacle was a perpetual witness between God and t...
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ΎΠΟΠΌΔΙΟΝ (G5286) подножие,
ΠΟΊΟΝ (G4169) _асс. sing._ какой? какого рода?
ΟΊΚΟΔΟΜΉΣΕΤΕ _fut. ind. act., см._ Acts 7:47.
ΚΑΤΑΠΑΎΣΕΩΣ _gen. sing. от_ ΚΑΤΆΠΑΥΣΙΣ (G2663)
приют. _Gen._ описания....
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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,—_an
hab...
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c.
Stephen's defence. Acts 7:1-53.
Acts 7:1
And the high priest said, Are these things so?
Acts 7:2
And he said,
Brethren and fathers, hearken: The God of glory appeared unto our
father Abraham,...
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See notes on verse 44...
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41 Idolatry is, etymologically, the offering of divine service to that
which can be perceived by the senses. In this way, all objects of
worship, even if they are supposed to be representations of the...
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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 does...
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GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE
ACTS
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 7
STEPHEN’S SPEECH, PART 1: ABRAHAM’S *FAITH IN GOD, 7:1-8
V1 The *high priest asked Stephen, ‘Is this true?’ V2 Stephen
replied, ‘Listen, brot...
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τίς τόπος for ποῖος, and οὐχὶ introducing the
conclusion instead of γάρ -Although Solomon had expressed this same
truth in the dedicatory prayer of his temple, St. Stephen appeals to
the great Messian...
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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 the fin...
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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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God's True House
The pattern for the making of the tabernacle was one of the things God
revealed through Moses. Very clearly, Stephen noted that God intended
for His pattern to be followed exactly (He...
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CHURCH EDIFICES
44-50. Here Stephen alludes to the grand spiritual meaning of the
portable tabernacle which God dictated to Moses on Sinai and the
beautiful symbolic significance of Solomon's temple....
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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 he...
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First of all we see man in an entirely new place man risen from among
the dead and ascending to heaven. The risen ascended man, Christ
Jesus, is the new starting-point of the dealings of God. The firs...
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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 because...
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Stephen, [11] as far as we are told, had not known the Lord during His
life on earth. Certainly he was not appointed, like the apostles, to
be a witness of that life. He was simply the instrument of t...
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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 from...
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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
accordi...
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_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 Most...
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Men may so idolize a time, a place, or an outward form of worship, as
entirely to unfit them to worship him who is a Spirit "in spirit and
in truth," and lead them violently to oppose and bitterly to...
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The Tabernacle and the Temple:...
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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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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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_‘HEAVEN_ _IS MY THRONE, AND EARTH_ _IS MY FOOTSTOOL. WHAT HOUSE
WILL YOU BUILD FOR ME? SAYS THE LORD, OR WHAT_ _IS THE PLACE OF MY
REST?_
1. The quote from Isaiah 66:1-2 makes it clear that Heaven a...
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The heaven is my throne, And the earth the footstool of my feet: What
manner of house will ye build Me? saith the Lord: Or what is the place
of My rest?...
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42-50 Stephen upbraids the Jews with the idolatry of their fathers,
to which God gave them up as a punishment for their early forsaking
him. It was no dishonour, but an honour to God, that the tabern...
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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 Heaven G3772 My G3427 throne G2362 And G1161 earth G1093 My
G3450 footstool G4228 G5286 What...
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“The heaven is my throne,
And the earth the footstool of my feet.
What manner of house will you build Me? says the Lord,
Or what is the place of my rest?
Did not my hand make all these things?”
An...
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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 by speaking in favour of the oracles of God and point...
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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 used...
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_Third Division of Stephens Speech._
Acts 7:37-53. _Moses and the Prophets._ Moses is again the central
figure of the history, but now he stands forward as the great
deliverer of the people. Stephen h...
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WHAT MANNER OF HOUSE
(Ποιον οικον). What sort of a house? This interrogative is
sometimes scornful as in Acts 4:7; Luke 6:32 (Page). So Stephen shows
by Isaiah that Solomon was right that the temple...
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LORD
Jehovah. (Isaiah 66:1); (Isaiah 66:2)....
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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 each
o...
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Acts 7:47
The Temples of God.
Note:
I. The physical creation. "Heaven is My throne; and earth is My
footstool. Hath not My hand made these things?" These words refer
directly to the material creati...
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CONTENTS: Address of Stephen before the council. Stephen martyred.
CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Stephen, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob,
Joseph, Pharaoh, Moses, Pharaoh's daughter, Aaron, Solomon, Sau...
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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 shoul...
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OUR ANCESTORS HAD THE TENT OF GOD'S PRESENCE. [_Tabernacle_ is an old
word for _tent._] This tent was a "portable temple," and served to
focus the worship of God and act as a witness to the Covenant....
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_But Solomon built Him an house._
THE TEMPLES OF GOD
Scripture divides the Divine dispensations into the Patriarchal, the
Jewish, and the Christian. We read of three creations, or three
classes of he...
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_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 for...
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 7:1 Stephen’s defense is the longest speech in
Acts 1:1. It is a selective summary of OT history that turned the
charges on his accusers: _they_ were the ones disobeying God because...
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_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. Concerning...
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_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. in) THE POSSESSION OF
THE GENTILES.—Meaning that the Ark was...
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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. Acts
9:1 and...
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Let's turn tonight to Acts chapter 7.
In the early church when a dispute arose among the Grecians--that is,
those Jews of the Grecian culture. They were actually Jews, but they
had followed the Grecia...
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1 Kings 22:19; Jeremiah 23:24; Jeremiah 7:4; John 4:21; Malachi 1:11
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What house. Rev., more correctly, "what manner of house" [π ο ι ο
ν]....
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STEPHEN'S LAST WORDS AND MARTYRDOM
Acts 7:44
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
Let us, by way of opening word, speak a few words on two great
benefactions to Israel (see Acts 7:44).
1. THE FATHERS HAD THE TABERNA...
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What is the place of my rest? — Have I need to rest?...