Acts 6:1 On the Office of the Diaconate I. The origin of the office. (1) We are introduced here to a class of people called Grecians. They were proselytes to the Jewish worship, and Jews born and bred in foreign countries, whose language therefore was Greek. The home Jews or Hebrews looked down on... [ Continue Reading ]
Acts 6:1 Hellenist and Hebrew From the very day of Pentecost, the Jerusalem congregation had embraced a number of Hellenists, or foreign-trained Jews, though we have no means of knowing what proportion they bore to those born in Palestine, called by Luke "Hebrews." It is certain that their influen... [ Continue Reading ]
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 other; and sooner or later the followers of the one will come into collision with the votaries of the... [ Continue Reading ]
Acts 6:11 The first Christian Martyr. Look: I. At Stephen as a man. The third verse gives us to understand that he was a man of "honest report:" literally, a man well testified of the public bore him good witness. (1) This means that he was an honest man; and not only honest, but that he had a rep... [ Continue Reading ]
Acts 6:15 The Angel-face on Man There are certain things common to the angel-face on man, amid all the endless variety of type and form certain things which we may look for (with at least but little exception) on all the faces which carry on them any image, or resemblance to higher worlds, and hol... [ Continue Reading ]