Acts 7:1-5
THE DEFENSE OF STEPHEN AND HIS DEATH. Stephen refers to the call of Abraham:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DEFENSE OF STEPHEN AND HIS DEATH. Stephen refers to the call of Abraham:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SAID THE HIGH PRIEST, ARE THESE THINGS SO?... [ Continue Reading ]
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 CHARRAN,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SAID UNTO HIM, GET THEE OUT OF THY COUNTRY AND FROM THY KINDRED, AND COME INTO THE LAND WHICH I SHALL SHOW THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN CAME HE OUT OF THE LAND OF THE CHALDEANS AND DWELT IN CHARRAN; AND FROM THENCE, WHEN HIS FATHER WAS DEAD, HE REMOVED HIM IN TO THIS LAND, WHEREIN YE NOW DWELL.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE GAVE HIM NONE INHERITANCE IN IT, NO, NOT SO MUCH AS TO SET HIS FOOT ON; YE THE PROMISED THAT HE WOULD GIVE IT TO HIM FOR A POSSESSION AND TO HIS SEED AFTER HIM WHEN AS YE THE HAD NO CHILD. The charges having been preferred, the president of the Sanhedrin, the high priest, gave Stephen permiss... [ Continue Reading ]
AND GOD SPAKE ON THIS WISE, THAT HIS SEED SHOULD SOJOURN IN A STRANGE LAND; AND THAT THEY SHOULD BRING THEM INTO BONDAGE, AND ENTREAT THEM EVIL FOUR HUNDRED YEARS.... [ Continue Reading ]
The promise to Abraham:... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE GAVE HIM THE COVENANT OF CIRCUMCISION; AND SO ABRAHAM BEGAT ISAAC, AND CIRCUMCISED HIM THE EIGHTH DAY; AND ISAAC BEGAT JACOB; AND JACOB BEGAT THE TWELVE PATRIARCHS. For Abraham the promises of God provided one trial of faith after the other. Long before he had a son, the Lord told him that hi... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE PATRIARCHS, MOVED WITH ENVY, SOLD JOSEPH INTO EGYPT; BUT GOD WAS WITH HIM,... [ Continue Reading ]
The story of Jacob and Joseph:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND DELIVERED HIM OUT OF ALL HIS AFFLICTIONS, AND GAVE HIM FAVOR AND WISDOM IN THE SIGHT OF PHARAOH, KING OF EGYPT; AND HE MADE HIM GOVERNOR OVER EGYPT AND ALL HIS HOUSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW THERE CAME A DEARTH OVER ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT AND CANAAN AND GREAT AFFLICTION, AND OUR FATHERS FOUND NO SUSTENANCE.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN JACOB HEARD THAT THERE WAS CORN IN EGYPT, HE SENT OUT OUR FATHERS FIRST.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AT THE SECOND TIME JOSEPH WAS MADE KNOWN TO HIS BRETHREN; AND JOSEPH'S KINDRED WAS MADE KNOWN UNTO PHARAOH.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SENT JOSEPH AND CALLED HIS FATHER JACOB TO HIM AND ALL HIS KINDRED, THREESCORE AND FIFTEEN SOULS.... [ Continue Reading ]
SO JACOB WENT DOWN INTO EGYPT, AND DIED, HE AND OUR FATHERS,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WERE CARRIED OVER INTO SYCHEM, AND LAID IN THE SEPULCHER THAT ABRAHAM BOUGHT FOR A SUM OF MONEY OF THE SONS OF EMMOR, THE FATHER OF SYCHEM. The account moves forward with the same interesting, graphic force as before, and is just as skillfully abridged. The brothers of Joseph were jealous of the... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN THE TIME OF THE PROMISE DREW NIGH WHICH GOD HAD SWORN TO ABRAHAM, THE PEOPLE GREW AND MULTIPLIED IN EGYPT,... [ Continue Reading ]
The birth and youth of Moses:... [ Continue Reading ]
TILL ANOTHER KING AROSE WHICH KNEW NOT JOSEPH.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SAME DEALT SUBTLY WITH OUR KINDRED, AND EVIL ENTREATED OUR FATHERS, SO THAT THEY CAST OUT THEIR YOUNG CHILDREN, TO THE END THEY MIGHT NOT LIVE.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN WHICH TIME MOSES WAS BORN, AND WAS EXCEEDING FAIR, AND NOURISHED UP IN HIS FATHER'S HOUSE THREE MONTHS;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE WAS CAST OUT, PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER TOOK HIM UP, AND NOURISHED HIM FOR HER OWN SON.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND MOSES WAS LEARNED IN ALL THE WISDOM OF THE EGYPTIANS, AND WAS MIGHTY IN WORDS AND IN DEEDS. After the death of Jacob, of Joseph, and the patriarchs, the sojourn of the children of Israel in Egypt was pleasant enough for several centuries. But even as, in the same degree that, the time of their s... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE WAS FULL FORTY YEARS OLD, IT CAME INTO HIS HEART TO VISIT HIS BRETHREN, THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.... [ Continue Reading ]
Moses attempts to deliver his people:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SEEING ONE OF THEM SUFFER WRONG, HE DEFENDED HIM, AND AVENGED HIM THAT WAS OPPRESSED, AND SMOTE THE EGYPTIAN;... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HE SUPPOSED HIS BRETHREN WOULD HAVE UNDERSTOOD HOW THAT GOD BY HIS HAND WOULD DELIVER THEM; BUT THEY UNDERSTOOD NOT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE NEXT DAY HE SHOWED HIMSELF UNTO THEM AS THEY STROVE, AND WOULD HAVE SET THEM AT ONE AGAIN, SAYING, SIRS, YE ARE BRETHREN; WHY DO YE WRONG ONE TO ANOTHER?... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE THAT DID HIS NEIGHBOR WRONG THRUST HIM AWAY, SAYING, WHO MADE THEE A RULER AND A JUDGE OVER US?... [ Continue Reading ]
WILT THOU KILL ME AS THOU DIDEST THE EGYPTIAN YESTERDAY?... [ Continue Reading ]
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 direction of his foster-mother may well have taken until he was almost forty years old, since many ye... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN FORTY YEARS WERE EXPIRED, THERE APPEARED TO HIM IN THE WILDERNESS OF MOUNT SINA AN ANGEL OF THE LORD IN A FLAME OF FIRE IN A BUSH.... [ Continue Reading ]
The call of Moses:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN MOSES SAW IT, HE WONDERED AT THE SIGHT; AND AS HE DREW NEAR TO BEHOLD IT, THE VOICE OF THE LORD CAME UNTO HIM,... [ Continue Reading ]
SAYING, I AM THE GOD OF THY FATHERS, THE GOD OF ABRAHAM AND THE GOD OF ISAAC AND THE GOD OF JACOB. THEN MOSES TREMBLED, AND DURST NOT BEHOLD.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SAID THE LORD TO HIM, PUT OFF THY SHOES FROM THY FEET; FOR THE PLACE WHERE THOU STANDEST IS HOLY GROUND.... [ Continue Reading ]
I HAVE SEEN, I HAVE SEEN THE AFFLICTION OF MY PEOPLE WHICH IS IN EGYPT, AND I HAVE HEARD THEIR GROANING, AND AM COME DOWN TO DELIVER THEM. AND NOW COME, I WILL SEND THEE INTO EGYPT. When forty years were fulfilled, after Moses had lived forty years in the wilderness near Mount Sinai, known then also... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS MOSES WHOM THEY REFUSED, SAYING, WHO MADE THEE A RULER AND A JUDGE? THE SAME DID GOD SEND TO BE A RULER AND A DELIVERER BY THE HAND OF THE ANGEL WHICH APPEARED TO HIM IN THE BUSH.... [ Continue Reading ]
Moses the deliverer:... [ Continue Reading ]
HE BROUGHT THEM OUT AFTER THAT HE HAD SHOWED WONDERS AND SIGNS IN THE LAND OF EGYPT AND IN THE RED SEA AND IN THE WILDERNESS FORTY YEARS. For the sake of characterizing the Jews and emphasizing his point that they had always been a disobedient and obstinate people, Stephen here represents the whole... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
The disobedience of the Jews:... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS IS HE THAT WAS IN THE CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS WITH THE ANGEL WHICH SPAKE TO HIM IN THE MOUNT SINA AND WITH OUR FATHERS; WHO RECEIVED THE LIVELY ORACLES TO GIVE UNTO US;... [ Continue Reading ]
TO WHOM OUR FATHERS WOULD NOT OBEY, BUT THRUST HIM FROM THEM, AND IN THEIR HEARTS TURNED BACK AGAIN INTO EGYPT,... [ Continue Reading ]
SAYING UNTO AARON, MAKE US GODS TO GO BEFORE US; FOR AS FOR THIS MOSES WHICH BROUGHT US OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT WE WOT NOT WHAT IS BECOME OF HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY MADE A CALF IN THOSE DAYS, AND OFFERED SACRIFICE UNTO THE IDOL, AND REJOICED IN THE WORKS OF THEIR OWN HANDS. With the progress of his speech of defense, the impassioned fervor of Stephen's arguments increases. He is preaching the Law, and he does not intend to soften its sledge-hammer blow... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN GOD TURNED, AND GAVE THEM UP TO WORSHIP THE HOST OF HEAVEN; AS IT IS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE PROPHETS, 0 YE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, HAVE YE OFFERED TO ME SLAIN BEASTS AND SACRIFICES BY THE SPACE OF FORTY YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS?... [ Continue Reading ]
God's rejection of His people:... [ Continue Reading ]
YEA, YE TOOK UP THE TABERNACLE OF MOLOCH AND THE STAR OF YOUR GOD REMPHAN, FIGURES WHICH YE MADE TO WORSHIP THEM; AND I WILL CARRY YOU AWAY BEYOND BABYLON. Stephen here supplements the account of the Pentateuch, of the books of Moses, with a passage from the Prophet Amos, chap. 5:25-26. After this f... [ Continue Reading ]
OUR FATHERS HAD THE TABERNACLE OF WITNESS IN THE WILDERNESS, AS HE HAD APPOINTED, SPEAKING UNTO MOSES THAT HE SHOULD MAKE IT ACCORDING TO THE FASHION THAT HE HAD SEEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Tabernacle and the Temple:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH ALSO OUR FATHERS THAT CAME AFTER BROUGHT IN WITH JESUS INTO THE POSSESSION OF THE GENTILES, WHOM GOD DROVE OUT BEFORE THE FACE OF OUR FATHERS, UNTO THE DAYS OF DAVID;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO FOUND FAVOR BEFORE GOD, AND DESIRED TO AND A TABERNACLE FOR THE GOD OF JACOB.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT SOLOMON BUILT HIM AN HOUSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOWBEIT, THE MOST HIGH DWELLETH NOT IN TEMPLES MADE WITH HANDS, AS SAITH THE PROPHET,... [ Continue Reading ]
HEAVEN IS MY THRONE, AND EARTH IS MY FOOTSTOOL; WHAT HOUSE WILL YE BUILD ME? SAITH THE LORD; OR WHAT IS THE PLACE OF MY REST?... [ Continue Reading ]
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 external worship are vain without true faith of the heart. That advantage the children of Israel in the wi... [ Continue Reading ]
YE STIFF-NECKED AND UNCIRCUMCISED IN HEART AND EARS, YE DO ALWAYS RESIST THE HOLY GHOST; AS YOUR FATHERS DID, SO DO YE.... [ Continue Reading ]
The peroration:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH OF THE PROPHETS HAVE NOT YOUR FATHERS PERSECUTED? AND THEY HAVE SLAIN THEM WHICH SHOWED BEFORE OF THE COMING OF THE JUST ONE; OF WHOM YE HAVE BEEN NOW THE BETRAYERS AND MURDERERS;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO HAVE RECEIVED THE LAW BY THE DISPOSITION OF ANGELS; AND HAVE NOT KEPT IT. Stephen had now reviewed the whole history of the Jews, showing in what manner they had at all times acted toward the Lord and the leader whom the Lord had given them, relying rather upon outward forms and ceremonies, conn... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN THEY HEARD THESE THINGS, THEY WERE CUT TO THE HEART, AND THEY GNASHED ON HIM WITH THEIR TEETH.... [ Continue Reading ]
The glory of God revealed to Stephen:... [ Continue Reading ]
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,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SAID, BEHOLD, I SEE THE HEAVENS OPENED, AND THE SON OF MAN STANDING ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD. Stephen's speech was probably not finished as he had intended, but the increasing impatience and the murmuring of his hearers did not permit him to conclude in such a way as to bring Jesus into greater... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN THEY CRIED OUT WITH A LOUD VOICE, AND STOPPED THEIR EARS, AND RAN UPON HIM WITH ONE ACCORD,... [ Continue Reading ]
The stoning of Stephen:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND CAST HIM OUT OF THE CITY, AND STONED HIM; AND THE WITNESSES LAID DOWN THEIR CLOTHES AT A YOUNG MAN'S FEET WHOSE NAME WAS SAUL.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY STONED STEPHEN, CALLING UPON GOD AND SAYING, LORD JESUS, RECEIVE MY SPIRIT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE KNEELED DOWN, AND CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, LORD, LAY NOT THIS SIN TO THEIR CHARGE. AND WHEN HE HAD SAID THIS, HE FELL ASLEEP. The last announcement of Stephen, concerning the vision which was granted to him, raised the anger of the judges to a perfect storm of fury. That this man should recei... [ Continue Reading ]