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Verse 50. _HATH NOT MY HAND MADE ALL THESE THINGS?_] Stephen certainly
had not finished his discourse, nor drawn his inferences from the
facts already stated; but it is likely that, as they perceived...
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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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NOT. Greek. _ouchi._ App-105. Freely quoted from Isaiah 66:1; Isaiah
66:2....
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Acts 7:1-53. STEPHEN’S DEFENCE...
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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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ΟΎΧΊ (G3780) усиленная форма отрицания ΟΎ
используется в вопросе, на который
ожидается утвердительный ответ,
ΈΠΟΊΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Acts 7:19....
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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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Hath not my hand made all these things?
HATH NOT MY HAND MADE ALL THESE THINGS? The prophet goes on to say
that the chosen and proper resting-place of Yahweh is the "contrite
heart that trembleth a...
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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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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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50._Hath not mine hand? _The prophet telleth the people in these
words, that God hath no need either of gold, either of precious
furniture of the temple, either of the sacrifices; whereupon it
followe...
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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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HATH NOT MY HAND MADE ALL THESE THINGS? The heaven, and the earth, and
all that is in them; the Arabic version renders it, "all these
creatures"; and therefore what can be made for God? or what house...
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Hath not my hand made all these things?
Ver. 50. _Hath not mine hand made all these things?_] Therefore I
need not your handiwork, though I am pleased to accept of it; which
you are to look upon as a...
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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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HATH NOT MY HAND MADE ALL THESE THINGS?
Stephen takes up the recital of the various houses of worship among
the Jews with a purpose, since he wants to show that the dependence
upon the forms of extern...
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The Tabernacle and the Temple:...
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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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_HAS MY HAND NOT_ _MADE ALL THESE THINGS?_ '__
1. God can dwell in any place of His creation.
2. God made all things. He can dwell anywhere, everywhere....
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Did not my hand make all these things?
Points to Note:
Even Solomon, at the dedication of the Temple, confessed that such.
House could not contain God (1 Kings 2:27).
Bruce notes, 'But to those who...
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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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As appears in the history of the creation, GENESIS 1:1. It is spoken
unto our capacity after the manner of men, and implies that God is too
great to stand in need of temples or offerings; and that wha...
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Acts 7:50 Has G4160 My G3450 hand G5495 not G3780 made G4160 (G5656)
all G3956 things G5023...
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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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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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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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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 7:45. 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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_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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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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Acts 14:15; Exodus 20:11; Isaiah 40:28; Isaiah 44:24; Isaiah 45:12;...
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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...