Combined Bible Commentary
Acts 7:39
See notes on verse 38
See notes on verse 38
ACTS 7:39 h`mw/n Instead of “_our_ fathers” several witnesses (including 36 81 242 2401 copG67 geo Irenaeus) read “_your_ fathers.” (See also the comment on ver. 38.)...
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...
Verse 39. _IN THEIR HEARTS TURNED BACK AGAIN INTO EGYPT_] Became idolaters, and preferred their Egyptian bondage and their idolatry to the promised land and the pure worship of God. See the whole of t...
WOULD NOT OBEY ... - This refers to what they said of him when he was in the mount, Exodus 32:1, Exodus 32:23. IN THEIR HEARTS TURNED ... - They wished to return to Egypt. They regretted that they had...
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...
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...
"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...
WOULD. App-102. OBEY. be obedient (Greek. _hupekoos._ Only here; 2 Corinthians 2:9; Philippians 1:2; Philippians 1:8). FROM THEM. away....
_to whom our fathers would not obey_[be obedient], _but thrust him from them_ For they said (Numbers 14:4), "Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt." This was after the return of the spie...
Acts 7:1-53. STEPHEN’S DEFENCE...
ἘΝ before ΤΑΙ͂Σ ΚΑΡΔΊΑΙΣ with אABC. 39. ὯΙ ΟΥ̓Κ ἨΘΈΛΗΣΑΝ ὙΠΉΚΟΟΙ ΓΕΝΈΣΘΑΙ Κ.Τ.Λ., _to whom our fathers would not be obedient_. For they said (Numbers 14:4) ‘Let us make a captain, and let us return i...
_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...
ΗΘΈΛΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Acts 7:28, с _inf._ ΥΠΉΚΟΟΣ (G5255) покорный, с _dat._ ΓΕΝΈΣΘΑΙ _aor. med. (dep.) inf., см._ Acts 7:13. ΆΠΏΣΑΝΤΟ _aor. ind. med._ (_indir. med._ [RWP]), _см._...
TO WHOM OUR FATHERS WOULD NOT OBEY,— This is observed by Stephen more than once, and he insists upon it largely, that they might see it was no new thing for Israel to rebel against God, by rejecting d...
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,...
To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt, TO WHOM OUR FATHERS WOULD NOT OBEY, BUT THRUST HIM FROM THEM. Here Stephen shows tha...
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...
Israel's rebellion against Moses is a type of their later rebellion against Jesus. EGYPT] i.e. the Egyptian way of life, especially Egyptian idolatry (bull-worship). In Egypt Apis was worshipped at Me...
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...
TO WHOM OUR FATHERS WOULD NOT OBEY. — The historical parallelism is continued. The people rejected Moses then (the same word is used as in Acts 7:27) as they were rejecting Christ now, even after He h...
ἐστράφησαν, _i.e._, in their desires after the Egyptian gods, _cf._ Acts 7:40, not “turned back again,” but simply “turned” (Rendall, _in loco_). The words cannot be taken literally (as Corn. à Lap. a...
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...
Israel's Rebellion That very deliverer was the one who foresaw the day God would raise up another prophet like him. Moses faithfully worked with those Jews who had been called out of bondage. Through...
_Whom our Fathers would not obey, murmuring, and rebelling from time to time. And in their hearts turned back into Egypt, as they shewed, by wishing themselves there again. (Witham)_...
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...
39._They refused, and were turned away. _He saith that the fathers rejected Moses; and he showeth the cause also, because they gave themselves rather unto the superstitions of Egypt; which was horribl...
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...
TO WHOM OUR FATHERS WOULD NOT OBEY,.... But often murmured against him, and were disobedient to him, and to the oracles he delivered to them, and so to God, whose oracles they were: BUT THRUST HIM FR...
To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust _him_ from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt, Ver. 39. _Thrust him from them_] The present government is always grievous, Αει το πα...
_Whom our fathers would not obey_ Even after all the proofs of his miraculous powers given in Egypt, and at the Red sea; _but thrust him from them_ Acting a part more stupid and ungrateful than that b...
TO WHOM OUR FATHERS WOULD NOT OBEY, BUT THRUST HIM FROM THEM, AND IN THEIR HEARTS TURNED BACK AGAIN INTO EGYPT,...
The disobedience of the Jews:...
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...
WHOM OUR FATHERS WOULD NOT OBEY, BUT REJECTED. AND IN THEIR HEARTS THEY TURNED BACK TO EGYPT, 1. The nation of Israel did not keep the Law of Moses. 2. They turned their hearts back to Egypt. Not th...
to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him from them, and turned back in their hearts unto Egypt, 'TO WHOM'-i.e. to Moses. 'BUT THRUST HIM FROM THEM'-'spurned his authority' (Wey); 'p...
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...
Their glory being in their fathers, St. Stephen reminds them that many of them rebelled against God and his servant Moses; as they (their posterity) now were rebellions against Christ, who came to sav...
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews of the Jews-that is, the more ancient-quite forsook God, and did degrading service to idols, and, abandoning the Divinity, was surrendered to images; while "the peopl...
Acts 7:39 whom G3739 our G2257 fathers G3962 would G2309 (G5656) not G3756 obey G1096 (G5635)...
‘This is he who was in the congregation (church) in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him in the Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living oracles to give to us. To whom our fath...
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...
_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...
Acts 7:39. AND IN THEIR HEARTS TURNED BACK AGAIN INTO EGYPT. They were weary of the severe restraints imposed by the worship of Jehovah, and longed for the idol service of Egypt, and the enjoyment of...
TO WHOM (ω). That is Moses, this Moses.WOULD NOT BE (ουκ ηθελησαν γενεσθα). Aorist active, negative aorist, were unwilling to become (γενεσθα) obedient.THRUST HIM FROM THEM (απωσαντο). Indirect...
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...
BUT OUR ANCESTORS REFUSED TO OBEY HIM. These verses sum up the disobedience of Israel. Stephen shows that the rejection of Jesus has roots deep in their own past. Compare Exodus 16:3; Exodus 17:4; Exo...
_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...
_To whom our fathers would not obey._ THE SIN OF ISRAEL I. Its manifold nature. 1. Disobedience (Acts 7:39). There is hardly a phase of Jewish history in which this sin does not appear. It was manif...
_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 7:18. 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...
_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...
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 2:27; Acts 7:27; Acts 7:51; Acts 7:52; Exodus 14:11;...
Turned back in their hearts. Not desiring to go back, but longing for the idolatries of Egypt....
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...