Combined Bible Commentary
Acts 7:32
See notes on verse 30
See notes on verse 30
ACTS 7:31-34 The manuscript copG67 is unique in making extensive additions to Stephen’s account from the Old Testament and from tradition: “… as he [Moses] drew near to look (there came the voice of...
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...
SAYING, I AM THE GOD ... - See this explained in the notes on Matthew 22:32. THEN MOSES TREMBLED - Exodus 3:6....
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...
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._): from Exodus 2:2; Philo and Josephus speak of the beauty o...
"When the time for the fulfillment of the promise which God had told to Abraham drew near, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt, until there arose another king in Egypt who had no knowledge of...
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...
GOD. The texts omit the third and fourth occurance of the word in this verse. TREMBLED. became trembling (Greek. _entromos._ Only here, Acts 16:29; Hebrews 12:21)....
Here we have in substance the history as given in Exodus 3:2-10....
_the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob_ The oldest authorities omit "the God" in the second and third places....
Omit ὁ θεὸς before ἸΣΑᾺΚ and ἸΑΚΏΒ with אABC. The _Vulg_. has ‘Deus’ in each place....
These verses give in substance the history as recorded in Exodus 3:2-10...
Acts 7:1-53. STEPHEN’S DEFENCE...
_THE JEWISH NATION AND THE LAND OF EGYPT ACTS 7:9-43:_ The patriarchs sold Joseph into Egypt. Envy caused Joseph's brothers to sell him into Egypt as a slave. God was with Joseph and gave him favor wi...
ΈΝΤΡΟΜΟΣ (G1790) объятый чрезвычайным ужасом или страхом, часто сопровождающимся дрожью; дрожащий от страха (LN, 1:317). ΓΕΝΌΜΕΝΟΣ _aor. med. (dep.) part., см._ Acts 7:13. Причинное или сопутств. _pa...
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,...
Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold. [SAYING], I AM THE GOD OF THY FATHERS, THE GOD OF ABR...
18 It is probable that the lot of Israel in Egypt was pleasant under the dynasty which was acquainted with Joseph, who made these rulers absolute masters in Egypt, for he got for them all the silver a...
7:32 Jacob. (d-17) See Exodus 3:6-10 ....
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...
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...
THE GOD OF ABRAHAM. — It is probable, on the assumption that Stephen had been one of the Seventy disciples of Luke 10:1, that he knew that these words had been cited by the Lord Jesus (Matthew 22:32)...
ἔντρομος γεν. (_cf._ Acts 10:4, ἔμφοβος γεν.), Acts 16:29, _cf._ Exodus 3:6, expression used only in Acts in these two passages (Hebrews 12:21, quotation from
STEPHEN'S DEFENSE: DISOBEDIENCE IN THE WILDERNESS Acts 7:30-46 The angel who appeared in the bush that burned with fire was the angel of God's presence, who saved the Israelites and bare them and car...
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...
Moses' Rejection By God's People Into such a climate, Moses was born, a child particularly pleasing to God. He was hidden by his parents for three months. Afterward, God caused him to be found by Phar...
Out of the burning bush Jehovah now commissions the sons of Amram to go and preach to the Pharaohs and princes of Egypt. Even the earth in that august presence is so sacred that sandals must be remove...
MOSES TYPICAL OF CHRIST 17-40. While Joseph so beautifully and vividly emblematizes King Jesus, both in His humiliation and in His glory, Moses equally grandly emblematizes the mediatorial Christ, him...
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...
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...
32._I am the God of thy fathers. _Now, we see to what end the vision was offered to Moses; to wit, that the word of God might have his [its] authority. For bare visions should do but little good, unle...
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...
SAYING, I AM THE GOD OF THY FATHERS,.... Who made a covenant with them, promised the land of Canaan to them, and to their posterity, and to bring the children of Israel out of their servitude and bond...
_Saying_, I _am_ the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold. Ver. 32. See Exodus 3:6 ....
_When forty years were expired_ That is, forty after his leaving Egypt; during which time Israel had continued under this bondage, and Moses, inured to hardships and poverty, and to contemplation and...
The call of Moses:...
SAYING, I AM THE GOD OF THY FATHERS, THE GOD OF ABRAHAM AND THE GOD OF ISAAC AND THE GOD OF JACOB. THEN MOSES TREMBLED, AND DURST NOT BEHOLD....
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...
32_ SAYING,_ _‘I_ _AM THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS-THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB._ ' AND MOSES TREMBLED AND DARED NOT LOOK. 1. God identifies himself as the God of Abraham, Is...
Acts 7:32. am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob. And Moses trembled, and durst not behold. 'TREMBLED'-1790. entromos en'-trom-os; from 1722 and 5156; terrified: -...
30-41 Men deceive themselves, if they think God cannot do what he sees to be good any where; he can bring his people into a wilderness, and there speak comfortably to them. He appeared to Moses in a...
I AM THE GOD OF THY FATHERS; that he might know from whom he had his commission, and by whom he was to be sent. THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, &C.; mention is made of these, because God had made unto them the pr...
Acts 7:32 I G1473 God G2316 your G4675 God G2316 Abraham G11 G2532 God G2316 Isaac G2464 and...
‘And when forty years were fulfilled, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush. And when Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight, and as he drew near to g...
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 charges of blasphemy when he had no supporting witness...
_Second Division of the Speech,_ 17-36. _The Age of Moses._ The second part of the defence commences with the long-looked-for approach of the time when ‘the promise,' now centuries old, should be fulf...
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...
Acts 7:14. Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls. So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers, and were carried over...
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...
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...
AFTER FORTY YEARS HAD PASSED. God's choosing and sending Moses is told in Exodus 3:1-10....
_And when the forty years were expired there appeared to him an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush._ THE BURNING BUSH A sign and a type-- I. Of Israel. As in Egypt, it resembled a degen...
_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 people, according to spirit and character. III. For the...
_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...
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...
_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...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 7:18. ANOTHER KING WHICH KNEW NOT JOSEPH.—This was Aahmes, the first monarch of the eighteenth dynasty, “a prince of great force of character, brave, active, energetic, libera...
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...
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...
1 Kings 19:13; Acts 3:13; Acts 9:4; Daniel 10:7; Daniel 10:8;...
Trembled [ε ν τ ρ ο μ ο ς γ ε ν ο μ ε ν ο ς]. Lit., having become trembling; having fallen into a tremor....
STEPHEN'S APOLOGY Acts 7:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS After charges against Stephen had been placed, the High Priest with a show of honor, said, "Are these things so?" Stephen then stood forth and made his...