VII: 1. "_Then said the high priest, Are these things so?_" Stephen
responds in a long and powerful discourse.
There is great diversity of opinion among commentators, as to the
logical bearing and connection of this discourse. We would naturally
expect to find in it-if we regard it as properly a def... [ Continue Reading ]
VII: 1. “_Then said the high priest, Are these things so?_”
Stephen responds in a long and powerful discourse.
There is great diversity of opinion among commentators, as to the
logical bearing and connection of this discourse. We would naturally
expect to find in it—if we regard it as properly a def... [ Continue Reading ]
2–4. We will now take up the different sections of the discourse,
treating each separately, and showing their connected bearing upon his
main purpose. Before exhibiting the manner in which Moses was treated
by the ancestors of his audience, he first shows that the mission on
which Moses came was a s... [ Continue Reading ]
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5-8. Having now introduced Abraham, and brought him into the land of
Canaan, Stephen quotes the prophesy, connected with the fulfillment of
which he is to find the chief points of his argument. (5) "_And he
gave him no inheritance in it, not a footprint: and he promised to
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9-16. The speaker next proceeds to recount the circumstances which
brought the people down into Egypt, in order that the rejection of
Joseph, and the final salvation of the whole family through him, might
stand out before his hearers, and be made to bear upon his final
conclusion. (9) "_And the patr... [ Continue Reading ]
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17-29. From this glance at the leading points in the history of
Joseph, Stephen advances to the case of Moses, showing that his
brethren rejected him in like manner, and were also finally delivered
by him. (17) "_But when the time of the promise of which God had sworn
to Abraham was drawing near, th... [ Continue Reading ]
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30-37. There were other incidents in the life of Moses fully as much
to his purpose as this; and to these he proceeds to advert. (30) "_And
when forty years were completed, 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 s... [ Continue Reading ]
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38-40. To keep prominent the ill treatment received by Moses at the
hands of the people, the speaker proceeds to note their conduct in the
wilderness. (38) "_This is he that was in the congregation in the
wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with
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41-43. Stephen next shows that the same people who so often rejected
the servants of God, likewise rejected God himself. (41) "_They made a
calf in those days, and brought sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in
the works of their own hands._ (42) _And God turned, and gave them up
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44-50. Instead of either admitting or denying the charge of blasphemy
against the temple, he undertakes to show the true religious value of
that building. This he does, by first alluding to the movable and
perishable nature of the _tabernacle,_ which preceded the temple, and
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51-53. As Joseph, the divinely-selected savior of his brethren, had
been sold by those brethren into slavery; and as Moses, divinely
selected to deliver Israel from bondage, was at first rejected by them
to become a sojourner in Midian, and was then sent back by the God of
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54-60. The exasperation of the Sanhedrim was the more intense, from
the fact that the denunciation hurled upon them was not a sudden burst
of passion, but the deliberate and sustained announcement of a just
judgment. They had not been able to resist, in debate, the wisdom and
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