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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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Verse Acts 7:7. _WILL I JUDGE_] κρινωεγω, _I will punish_, for
in this sense the Greek word is frequently taken. "When," says Bp.
_Pearce_, "a malefactor is brought before a judge, the judge does
_thr...
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AND THE NATION ... - Referring particularly to the Egyptians.
WILL I JUDGE - The word “judge,” in the Bible, often means to
“execute judgment” as well as to pronounce it; that is, “to
punish.” See Joh...
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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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ABRAHAM AND THE PATRIARCHS. The High Priest invites Stephen to plead
to the charge. Addressing his audience in the style used by Paul (Acts
22:1), Stephen speaks of the theophany to Abraham, placing i...
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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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The high priest said, "Is this so?" And Stephen said, "Men, brothers
and fathers, listen to what I have to say. The God of glory appeared
to Abraham our father when he was in Mesopotamia, before he li...
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NATION. Greek. _ethnos._ See note on Acts 4:25; Acts 4:27.
TO WHOM, &C.. whom they shall serve. Greek. _douleuo._ App-190.
JUDGE. Greek. _krino._ App-122.
THAT. these things.
SERVE. worship. Greek....
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_after that shall they come forth_ The first prophecy (Genesis 15:14)
of this Exodus adds "with great substance."
_and serve me in this place_ These words are not in the promise given
to Abraham, but...
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Acts 7:1-53. STEPHEN’S DEFENCE...
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Ὁ ΘΕῸΣ ΕἾΠΕΝ with אABC.
7. ὮΙ ἘᾺΝ ΔΟΥΛΕΎΣΟΥΣΙΝ, _to whom they shall be in
bondage_. This construction of the future indicative after ἐὰν is
not uncommon in the LXX. Cf. Deuteronomy 5:27, λαλήσεις
πάντ...
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_THE CALL OF ABRAHAM ACTS 7:1-8:_ The High Priest wanted to know if
the things said about Stephen were true. Stephen's faith in Hebrew
history was strong because he knew it was God at work. Stephen be...
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ΔΟΥΛΕΎΣΟΥΣΙΝ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΔΟΥΛΕΎΩ (G1398)
быть рабом, находиться в рабстве. О
форме FUT. _ind._ с ΈΆΝ (G1437) _см._ BD, 192.
ΈΞΕΛΕΎΣΟΝΤΑΙ _fut. ind. med. (dep.), см._ Acts 7:3.
ΛΑΤΡΕΎΣΟΥΣΙΝ _f...
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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 5...
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13 These synagogues were doubtless very lax in their adherence to the
Jewish law and customs, yet they are not ashamed to charge Stephen
with this, in order to inflame the Sanhedrin against him. The f...
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7:7 serve (e-25) _ Latreuo_ , as ver. 42; Matthew 4:10 ....
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IN THIS PLACE] in Canaan, not Sinai, as is the case in Exodus 3:12....
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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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AND AFTER THAT SHALL THEY COME FORTH. — The verse combines the
promise to Abraham in Genesis 15:17 with a free rendering of the sign
given to Moses (Exodus 3:12), which referred not to Canaan but to
H...
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CHAPTER 15
ST. STEPHEN'S DEFENCE AND THE DOCTRINE OF INSPIRATION.
Acts 6:12; Acts 7:1
ST. STEPHEN and St. Philip are the two prominent names among the
primitive deacons. Stephen, however, much surp...
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The _oratio recta_ is introduced by the words εἶπεν ὁ Θεός
… κρινῶ ἐγώ emphatic, _cf._ Romans 12:19. In this verse
the quotation is a free rendering of Genesis 15:14, the words ὧδε
μετὰ ἀποσκευῆς πολλ...
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STEPHEN'S DEFENSE: GOD'S FIRST CALLED ONES
Acts 7:1-13
There are several touches in this eloquent apology which deserve
notice. Acts 7:2: “The God of glory.” This chapter begins and ends
with glory....
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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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A Face Like an Angel
Perhaps Paul reported to Luke the remarkable appearance of the face of
Stephen. Luke told Theophilus that those in the council saw Stephen's
face "as the face of an angel." The cl...
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_The nation which they shall serve, I will judge. The meaning is, that
God would afflict the Egyptians with divers plagues, or visible
punishments, before they dismissed the Israelites. (Witham)_...
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EXPATRIATION
1-7. Despite the awful doom of the antediluvians, the people after the
flood soon became terribly wicked. While they constantly ploughed up
the bones of their antediluvian predecessors, f...
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And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory
appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before
he dwelt in Haran, (3) And said unto him, Get thee out of thy co...
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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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7._The nation whom they shall serve. _This judgment is joined with the
deliverance of the people. For, whereas God doth punish the cruelty
and tyranny of the wicked Egyptians, he doth that for his peo...
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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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AND THE NATION TO WHOM THEY SHALL BE IN BONDAGE,.... At the end of the
four hundred years, and which was the Egyptian nation:
I WILL JUDGE, SAID GOD; that is, condemn and punish them, as he did,
by i...
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And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said
God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.
Ver. 7. _And serve me in this place_] _Servati sumus ut servi...
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_And God spake, that his seed should sojourn in a strange land_ When
God had brought Abraham into this country, he did not keep him and his
posterity here till the time when they were to enter upon th...
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AND THE NATION TO WHOM THEY SHALL BE IN BONDAGE WILL I JUDGE, SAID
GOD; AND AFTER THAT SHALL THEY COME FORTH, AND SERVE ME IN THIS PLACE....
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The promise to Abraham:...
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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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7'_ AND THE NATION TO WHOM THEY WILL BE IN BONDAGE I WILL_ _JUDGE,_ '
SAID GOD, _‘AND AFTER THAT THEY SHALL COME OUT AND SERVE ME IN THIS
PLACE._ '
1. Egypt welcomed them, then felt intimidated, and...
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And the nation to which they shall be in bondage will. judge, said
God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.
'WILL. JUDGE'-i.e. the Ten plagues recorded in Exodus. (Genes...
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1-16 Stephen was charged as a blasphemer of God, and an apostate from
the church; therefore he shows that he is a son of Abraham, and values
himself on it. The slow steps by which the promise made to...
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WILL I JUDGE, or punish; and so the Egyptians were punished, not by
human means, but by Divine power, and with God's own immediate hand,
and that in the fulness of time, the very night in which God's...
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Acts 7:7 And G2532 nation G1484 whom G3739 G1437 bondage G1398 (G5661)
I G1473 judge G2919 ...
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‘And the nation to which they will be in bondage I will judge, said
God, and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this
place.'
And eventually God would act. God would judge those who held...
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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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EXCURSUS.
On certain alleged Discrepancies in Stephen's Speech.
A great deal has been written upon certain supposed inaccuracies which
occur in the speech of Stephen, as given in the seventh chapter...
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_First Division of the Speech,_ 2-16. _The Age of the Patriarchs
Abraham and Joseph._
(a) Acts 7:2-8. _ABRAHAM THE FATHER OF THE FAITHFUL._ Stephen relates
the well-known incident, fraught with such m...
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Acts 7:7. AND SERVE ME IN THIS PLACE. A quotation from the words of
the Eternal spoken to Moses in the burning bush on Mount Horeb: ‘In
this place' that is, where I now speak to thee. In the passage o...
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WILL I JUDGE
(κρινω εγω). Future (accent on ω) active indicative of
κρινω and εγω (I) expressed is emphatic.IN THIS PLACE
(εν τω τοπω τουτω). Quoted from Exodus 3:12 and referring
to Sinai or Hor...
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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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_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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_When his father was dead He removed him into this land._
THE DIFFICULTY AS TO THE DATE OF ABRAHAM’S MIGRATION
Terah died at Haran at the age of two hundred and five (Genesis
11:32.). From Genesis 11...
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 7:7 Combining Genesis 15:13 with Exodus 3:12,
Stephen spoke of God’s assurances to Abraham that after 400 years
his
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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 7:1. 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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_CRITICAL REMARKS_
Acts 7:2. Concerning what Stephen SAID in reply, Luke’s information
may have been derived either from Paul, who probably was present on
the occasion (Acts 26:10), and afterwards in...
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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 14:31; Exodus 3:12; Genesis 15:14; Isaiah 51:10; Isaiah 51:9;...
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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...
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They shall serve me — Not the Egyptians....