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Acts 7:23
And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.
And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.
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...
Verse Acts 7:23. _WHEN HE WAS FULL FORTY YEARS OLD_] This was a general tradition among the Jews: "Moses was forty years in Pharaoh's court, forty years in Midian, and forty years he served Israel....
FULL FORTY YEARS OLD - This is not recorded in the Old Testament; but it is a constant tradition of the Jews that Moses was 40 years of age when he undertook to deliver them. Thus, it is said, “Moses...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
HE WAS, &C. Literally. period (Greek. _chronos)_ of forty years (Greek. _tessarakontaetes._ Only here and Acts 13:18) was fulfilled. Greek. _pleroo._ App-125. INTO. upon. Greek. _epi._ App-104. VISI...
_And when he was full forty years old_ Better, _But when he was well-nigh forty years old_. The verb in the original intimates that the forty years were just being completed. For the fixing of this ti...
Acts 7:1-53. STEPHEN’S DEFENCE...
ὩΣ ΔῈ ἘΠΛΗΡΟΥ͂ΤΟ … ΧΡΌΝΟΣ. Render, _but when he was well-nigh forty years old_. The verb intimates that the forty years were just being completed. For the fixing of this time we have no authority in t...
_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...
ΈΠΛΗΡΟΫ́ΤΟ _impf. ind. pass. от_ ΠΛΗΡΌΩ (G4137) исполнять, завершать, ΆΝΈΒΗ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΝΑΒΑΊΝΩ (G305) приходить, подходить. Относится к вещам, пришедшим кому-л. в голову (AS; SA, 63-64)....
DISCOURSE: 1756 THE ZEAL OF MOSES Acts 7:22. _And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds. And when he was full forty years old, it came into his he...
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,...
See notes on verse 17...
And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel. AND WHEN HE WAS FULL FORTY YEARS OLD. Here, and in ; , the life of Moses is represented as...
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...
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...
FORTY YEARS OLD] His age is derived from tradition....
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...
IT CAME INTO HIS HEART. — The distinct purpose in going out to look after his brethren is stated somewhat more emphatically than in Exodus 2:11....
ὡς, _cf._ Acts 1:10, Lucan. The exact age is not mentioned in O.T., but it was traditional (Weiss refers its mention to the reviser, perhaps introduced as a parallel to Acts 7:30). According to the tr...
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...
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...
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...
_“And when the time of the fortieth year was being fulfilled to him, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the sons of Israel.”_ Here culminates a crisis, more copiously revealed in Hebrews 11...
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...
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...
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...
23._When the time was fulfilled. _Many gather by this that Moses was never estranged in mind from his nation; but the words of Stephen incline rather toward the contrary, to wit, that the Spirit of Go...
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...
AND WHEN HE WAS FULL FORTY YEARS OLD,.... This Stephen had from tradition, and not from Scripture, which is silent about the age of Moses at this time, and only says, "it came to pass in those days wh...
And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel. Ver. 23. See Hebrews 11:24. _See Trapp on "_ Heb 11:24 _"_ It came into his heart] _sc._ B...
_When he was forty years old_ So long he continued in Pharaoh's court; _it came into his heart_ Probably by an impulse from God; _to visit his brethren_ He having been instructed, it appears, in the k...
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...
" NOW WHEN HE WAS FORTY YEARS OLD, IT CAME INTO HIS HEART TO VISIT HIS BRETHREN, THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. 1. He went to visit his brethren. Here we have an interesting word. 1. To visit does not mean...
But when he was well-nigh forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel. 'WELL-NIGH FORTY YEARS OLD'- Exodus 2:11; Hebrews 11:24. We find the life of Moses divid...
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...
FORTY YEARS OLD; this age of Moses is not set down in his history, but they might have it by tradition, which is here confirmed unto us by the holy penman: these forty years Moses spent in Pharaoh's c...
Acts 7:23 Now G1161 when G5613 he G846 was G4137 (G5712) years G5063 old G5550 came G305 (G
‘But when he was almost forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel. And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, s...
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...
_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...
Acts 7:23. AND, WHEN HE WAS FULL FORTY YEARS OLD. The Hebrews lived in a separate district of their own, and Moses, one of the royal family, the adopted son of the daughter of the Pharaoh, no doubt du...
WHEN HE WAS WELL-NIGH FORTY YEARS OLD (Hως επληρουτο αυτω τεσσαρακονταετης χρονος). A rather awkward Greek idiom for the English: "When a forty year old time (same idiom in Acts 13:18 and only twice...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_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...
_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...
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...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 7:23 The rejection of Moses’ attempt to reconcile two quarreling Israelites (Exodus 2:11) illustrates Israel’s constant rejection of its God-sent leaders (see...
_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...
_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...
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...
1 Chronicles 29:17; 2 Chronicles 30:12; 2 Corinthians 8:16; Acts 15:36;...
It came into his heart [α ν ε β η ε π ι τ η ν κ α ρ δ ι α ν]. Lit., "it arose into his heart." " There may be something in the depth of the soul which afterward emerges and ascends from that sea into...
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...
It came into his heart — Probably by an impulse from God....