Acts 7:37

This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.

This is that Moses which said unto the children of Israel (Deuteronomy 18:15).

A Prophet shall [the Lord your] God raise up unto you. The authority for the bracketed words is rather weak. Probably they were added from the passage in Deuteronomy.

Of your brethren, like unto me; [him shall ye hear.] (Compare the words of Peter, Acts 3:22.) These last words also, enclosed in brackets, are of doubtful genuineness. They may have been added from the Old Testament passage. Lechler calls attention to the rhetorical emphasis unmistakeably lying in the repeated and forcible way in which the person of Moses is here referred to-the 35th, 36th, 37th, and 38th verses all beginning with his person-thus: "This, Moses" (Acts 7:35); "He" [ houtos (G3778)], or 'He it was that' (Acts 7:36); "This is that Moses" (Acts 7:37); "This is he" (Acts 7:38). The obvious design of this emphasis was to hold forth more vividly the contrast between God's choice of him and the nation's rejection of him, as a mirror in which might be seen their recent treatment of the Greater than Moses, followed up, as it now was, by their refusal of His messengers. In the 37th verse Stephen reminds his hearers that, blindly as they now set up Moses as the great object of a devout Israelite's regard, Moses himself, in his grand testimony, had held himself forth, not as the last and great prophet of Israel, but only as a humble precursor and small model of Him to whom absolute submission was due by all.