George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Acts 7:55
This is the comfort of all martyrs. (Bristow) --- This the support of every Christian under the severest trials of either mind or body: this the sweetener of every burthen and cross.
This is the comfort of all martyrs. (Bristow) --- This the support of every Christian under the severest trials of either mind or body: this the sweetener of every burthen and cross.
ACTS 7:55 VIhsou/n After VIhsou/n the Western text (D itgig, h, p copsapt, G67) characteristically adds to.n ku,rion (see also the examples in Groups _B_ and _C_ in footnote 12, p. 226 above)....
Verse 55. _SAW THE GLORY OF GOD_] The _Shekinah_, the splendour or manifestation of the Divine Majesty. _AND JESUS STANDING ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD_] In his official character, as Mediator between G...
FULL OF THE HOLY GHOST - See the notes on Acts 2:4. LOOKED UP STEDFASTLY - Fixed his eyes intently on heaven. Foreseeing his danger, and the effect his speech had produced; seeing that there was no sa...
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...
ACTS 7:54 TO ACTS 8:1_ A_. DEATH OF STEPHEN. The speech of Stephen cuts the hearers to the quick. It is not said that they interrupted him; the speech is complete, but their apparent and vehement ange...
As they listened to this their very hearts were torn with vexation and they gnashed their teeth at him. But he was full of the Holy Spirit and he gazed steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God...
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...
BEING. Greek. _huparcho._ See note on Luke 9:48. THE HOLY GHOST No article. App-101. LOOKED UP STEDFASTLY. Greek. _atenizo._ App-133. He was probably in one of the Temple courts, open to the sky. J...
_saw the glory of God_ Some visible sign of God's presence such as the Shechinah had been to the Jews of old. See Exodus 16:10; Exodus 24:17, in the latter of which passages it is described as like de...
ΔΌΞΑΝ ΘΕΟΥ͂, _the glory of God_. Some visible sign of God’s presence, such as the Shechinah had been to the Jews of old. See Exodus 16:10; Exodus 24:17, in the latter of which passages it is described...
EFFECT OF THE SPEECH. DEATH OF STEPHEN...
_STEPHEN, THE FIRST CHRISTIAN MARTYR ACTS 7:51-60:_ Stephen charged the people with: (1) being stiff necked, (2) uncircumcised in heart, (3) resisting the Holy Ghost, and (4) failing to keep the word...
ΥΠΆΡΧΩΝ _aor. act. part. (сопутств.) от_ ΥΠΆΡΧΩ (G5225) существовать, быть, ΆΤΕΝΊΣΑΣ _aor. act. part. (сопутств.) от_ ΆΤΕΝΊΖΩ (G816) глазеть, ΕΊΔΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть, ΈΣΤΏΤΑ _...
AND JESUS STANDING ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD.— See the next note. It has been well observed, that Christ is generally represented _sitting,_ but now as standing at God's right hand; that is, as risen u...
See notes on verse 54...
But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, BUT HE, BEING FULL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, LOOKED UP STEDF...
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...
STANDING] Jesus rises from the throne on which He is represented as eternally sitting (Matthew 26:64; Mark 16:19, etc.) to succour the martyr in his extremity, and to welcome his soul into bliss....
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...
BEING FULL OF THE HOLY GHOST. — There is something suggestive in the fact that this description comes at the close, as at the beginning, of the record of St. Stephen’s work (Acts 6:8). From first to l...
ἀτενίσας, _cf._ Acts 1:10, εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν, _cf._ John 17:1, “ubi enim est oculus, ibi est cor et amor”. In the power of the Holy Ghost, with which Stephen is represented as being full, as in life so...
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...
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...
Stephen Slain For Preaching the Truth Like their fathers before them, Stephen accused the members of the council of having necks so rock hard that they could not bow before God. Though they had been c...
(9) But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus (z) standing on the right hand of God, (9) The nearer that martyrs approach to death, t...
_“And being full of the Holy Ghost and looking up to heaven, he saw the glory of heaven, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God.”_ The normal posture of Jesus in heaven is sitting on the mediator...
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. (52) Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain...
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...
_THE FIRST CHRISTIAN MARTYR_ ‘Stephen, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven.’ Acts 7:55 The life and death of St. Stephen are full of lessons for those who would be faith...
55._Forasmuch as he was full. _We cannot almost express into what straits the servant of Christ was brought, when he saw himself beset round with raging enemies; the goodness of his cause was oppresse...
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...
BUT HE BEING FULL OF THE HOLY GHOST,.... That is, Stephen, as Beza's ancient copy, and some others express it; and so the Ethiopic version; the Syriac version reads, "full of faith, and of the Holy Gh...
But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, Ver. 55. _And Jesus standing_] As ready to revenge the i...
_When they heard these things_ These plain, and undeniable, and alarming truths; _they were cut to the heart_ Or sawn asunder, the original word being the same that is used chap. Acts 5:33. And not pe...
BUT HE, BEING FULL OF THE HOLY GHOST, LOOKED UP STEADFASTLY INTO HEAVEN, AND SAW THE GLORY OF GOD, AND JESUS STANDING ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD,...
The glory of God revealed to Stephen:...
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...
BUT HE, BEING FULL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, GAZED INTO HEAVEN AND SAW THE GLORY OF GOD, AND JESUS STANDING AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, 1. The audience had resisted the Holy Spirit. Stephen was full of the H...
But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, 'FULL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT'-'While his audience gave unch...
54-60 Nothing is so comfortable to dying saints, or so encouraging to suffering saints, as to see Jesus at the right hand of God: blessed be God, by faith we may see him there. Stephen offered up two...
FULL OF THE HOLY GHOST; filled with grace suitable to his present trial and suffering. THE GLORY OF GOD; the glorious God, or so much of the throne and glory of God as mortal eyes are capable for to s...
Tertullian Against Praxeas -not the Father at His own. He is seen by Stephen, at his martyrdom by stoning, still sitting at the right hand of God[429]...
Acts 7:55 But G1161 being G5225 (G5723) full G4134 Holy G40 Spirit G4151 gazed G816 (G5660) into...
‘But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,' For to Stephen a wonderful thing happened. Being full...
THE FINAL CONCLUSION (7:54-60). Learned judges do not like those who are on trial trying to convict them of being criminals, and as they were unwilling to admit that they were wrong the result was in...
Acts 7:55. AND SAW THE GLORY OF GOD, AND JESUS. ‘The scene before his eyes was no longer the council hall at Jerusalem, and the circle of his infuriated judges; but he gazed up into the endless courts...
AND JESUS STANDING (κα Ιησουν εστωτα). Full of the Holy Spirit, gazing steadfastly into heaven, he saw God's glory and Jesus "standing" as if he had risen to cheer the brave Stephen. Elsewhere (save...
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...
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...
LOOKED UP TO HEAVEN. _"Happy are the dead who from now on die in the service of the Lord!"_ (Revelation 14:13). For the Christian, death is _graduation_ from the school of life....
_He being full of the Holy Ghost._ THE WORK OF THE SPIRIT IN THE PROTO-MARTYR Note how explicitly the character, attainments, and triumph of Stephen are ascribed to the Holy Spirit. In the first not...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 7:54. CUT TO THE HEART.—See on Acts 7:33. The word describes a keener pang than “pricked “in Acts 2:37. GNASHED ON HIM WITH THEIR TEETH.—Lit. _snapped their teeth against him_,...
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...
2 Corinthians 12:2; 2 Corinthians 4:6; 2 Peter 1:17; Acts 1:10; A
Being [υ π α ρ χ ω ν]. See on James 2:15. Looked up steadfastly. Compare ch. 1 10; Acts 3:4; Acts 3:12; Acts 6:15; and see on...
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...
But he looking steadfastly up to heaven, saw the glory of God — Doubtless he saw such a glorious representation, God miraculously operating on his imagination, as on Ezekiel's, when he sat in his hous...