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ACTS 7:29 e;fugen de. Mwu?sh/j
Hilgenfeld, followed by A. C. Clark, accepted the reading of codex
Bezae as original, ou[twj kai. evfuga,deusen Mwu?sh/j (E reads
evfuga,deusen de. Mwu?sh/n, which mean...
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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...
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THEN FLED MOSES ... - Moses fled because he now ascertained that what
he had done was known. He supposed that it had been unobserved, Exodus
2:12. But he now thought that the knowledge of it might rea...
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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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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...
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"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...
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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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SAYING. Greek. _logos, as_ in Acts 7:22.
STRANGER. Greek. _paroikos._ Same as "sojourn" in Acts 7:6.
MADIAN. Midian. See Exodus 2:15; Exodus 3
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_Then_[AND] _fled Moses at this saying_ Josephus (_Antiq_. ii. 11. 1)
makes no mention of this reason for the flight of Moses, but says that
the Egyptians were jealous of him, and told the king "that...
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ἘΝ ΤΩ͂Ι ΛΌΓΩΙ ΤΟΎΤΩΙ. The preposition marks the
occasion. _Upon this speech_. Josephus (_Ant_. II. 11. 1) makes no
mention of this reason for the flight of Moses, but says that the
Egyptians were jeal...
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Acts 7:1-53. STEPHEN’S DEFENCE...
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_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...
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ΈΦΥΓΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΦΕΎΓΩ (G5343) убегать,
ΈΓΈΝΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.), см._ Acts 7:13.
ΠΆΡΟΙΚΟΣ, _см._ Acts 7:6. ΈΓΈΝΝΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind.
act., см._ Acts 7:20
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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 17...
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Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of
Madian, where he begat two sons.
THEN FLED MOSES AT THIS SAYING - for "when Pharaoh heard this thing
he sought to slay Moses" (Exod...
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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...
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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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ἐν τῷ λόγῳ τούτῳ · Weiss points out that Moses fled
on account of this word, because he saw that his people would not
protect him against the vengeance of Pharaoh. Jos., _Ant._, ii., 11,
1, makes the...
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STEPHEN'S DEFENSE: THE DELIVERER FROM BONDAGE
Acts 7:14-29
Moses, we are here told, was “mighty in words;” that is, in
eloquence as well as in deeds. This confirms the statement of the
Jewish histori...
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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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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...
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Moses fled upon this word; because he perceived the murder he had
committed was become public, though he thought it to be secret.
(Menochius) He fled, to avoid the anger of the king, into Madian,
wher...
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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...
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Cultured all his life in the Egyptian idolatry, flooded with all the
learning of the world, the greatest military general on the globe,
born with redoubtable physical courage, and a total stranger to...
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But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to
Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, (18) Till another
king arose, which knew not Joseph. (19) The same dealt subtlety w...
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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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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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THEN FLED MOSES AT THIS SAYING,.... For hereby the thing was known to
Pharaoh, being presently carried to court, who sought to kill him for
it, Exodus 2:15 The Jews have a very fabulous story, that Mo...
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Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of
Madian, where he begat two sons.
Ver. 29. _Then fled Moses_] And by being banished, was the better
fitted to be king in Jeshurun....
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_The next day he showed himself unto them_ Of his own accord,
unexpectedly; _as they strove_ As they were quarrelling with each
other; _and would have set them at one_ That is, by interposing
between...
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THEN FLED MOSES AT THIS SAYING, AND WAS A STRANGER IN THE LAND OF
MIDIAN, WHERE HE BEGAT TWO SONS.
The events narrated in Exodus 2:1 are here briefly reviewed. The
entire training of Moses under the d...
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Moses attempts to deliver his people:...
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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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THEN, AT THIS SAYING, MOSES FLED AND BECAME A DWELLER IN THE LAND OF
MIDIAN, WHERE HE HAD TWO SONS.
1. Moses spent 40 years in the house of Pharaoh.
2. He spent the next 40 years trying to find wate...
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And Moses fled at this saying, and became. sojourner in the land of
Midian, where he begat two sons.
'MOSES FLED'-'Moses had exposed himself to grave peril by his attempt
to champion his oppressed pe...
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17-29 Let us not be discouraged at the slowness of the fulfilling of
God's promises. Suffering times often are growing times with the
church. God is preparing for his people's deliverance, when their...
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THEN FLED MOSES; knowing that what he had done to the Egyptian would
be discovered to Pharaoh, and his life in danger. THE LAND OF MADIAN;
inhabitant by the posterity of Midian, Abraham's son by Ketur...
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Acts 7:29 Then G1161 at G1722 this G5129 saying G3056 Moses G3475 fled
G5343 (G5627) and G2532 became...
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‘And Moses fled at this saying, and became a sojourner in the land
of Midian, where he begat two sons.'
The result was that the deliverer had fled and became a sojourner in
Midian. Having rejected the...
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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...
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_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...
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Acts 7:28-29. WILT THOU KILL ME, AS THOU DIDDEST THE EGYPTIAN
YESTERDAY? THEN FLED MOSES AT THIS SAYING. De Wette calls attention
here to the history of Exodus, which relates how Moses, after his
publ...
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SOJOURNER
(παροικος). Temporary dweller (cf. Abraham in verse Acts 7:6)
in Midian though for forty years....
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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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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...
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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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WHEN MOSES WAS FORTY YEARS OLD. Exodus 2:11-15. The point Stephen
brings out, is that Israel rejected Moses, just as they did Joseph and
Jesus. Yet they knew how God had chosen both Joseph and Moses t...
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_And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit
his brethren._
THE PATRIOTISM OF MOSES
I. Long nursed--“forty years.”
1. Inspired by his mother. The precious time during which...
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_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...
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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 7:18. 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...
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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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Exodus 18:2; Exodus 2:14; Exodus 4:19; Exodus 4:20...
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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...