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Acts 7:24
And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian;
And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian;
ACTS 7:24 The Western text adds details from the Septuagint of Exodus 2:11-12, “And seeing one _of his race_ (evk tou/ ge,nouj auvtou/, D E syrp, h with * copG67 eth [D omits...
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 7:24. _SMOTE THE EGYPTIAN_] See this explained, Exodus 2:11, Exodus 2:12 (note)....
SUFFER WRONG - The wrong or injury was, that the Egyptian was smiting the Hebrew, Exodus 2:11. SMOTE THE EGYPTIAN - He slew him, and buried him in the sand,...
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...
SEEING. Greek. _eidon._ App-133. SUFFER WRONG. being wronged. Greek. _adikeo._ Compare App-128. DEFENDED. Greek. _amunomai._ Only here. AVENGED. took vengeance (Greek. _ekdikesis._ Here, Luke 18:7;...
_and smote the Egyptian_ i.e. killed him. See Exodus 2:12....
ΚΑΤΑΠΟΝΟΥΜΈΝΩΙ, _oppressed_. The word is used 2Ma 8:2 of the suffering Jews in the time of Judas Maccabæus, though some MSS. there give καταπατούμενον = _downtrodden_. ΠΑΤΆΞΑΣ, _having smitten_, i.e....
Acts 7:1-53. STEPHEN’S DEFENCE...
_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...
ΊΔΏΝ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть, ΆΔΙΚΟΎΜΕΝΟΝ _praes. pass. part. (adj.) от_ ΆΔΙΚΈΩ (G91) поступать неправедно, несправедливо обращаться с кем-л.; _pass._ страдать от несправедли...
AND SEEING ONE OF THEM SUFFER, &C.— See Exodus 2:11 where the word is מכה _meche,_ which sometimes signifies to _smite_ so as to kill; and the Israelite is here represented as καταπονουμενω, _subdued...
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 seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian: AND SEEING ONE OF THEM SUFFER WRONG, HE DEFENDED HIM, AND, AVENGED HIM THAT WAS OPP...
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...
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...
AND AVENGED HIM. — The Greek phrase is noticeable as identical with that used by St. Luke (Luke 18:7) in reporting the lesson drawn by our Lord from the parable of the Unjust Judge....
ἀδικούμενον, “wronged,” _i.e._, by blows, Exodus 2:11. ἠμύνατο : only here in N.T. (_sc._, τὸν ἀδικοῦντα); in active the verb means to defend, “debebat scribere ἤμυνε,” says Blass, but in the middle i...
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...
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...
Cultured all his life in the Egyptian idolatry, flooded with all the learning of the world, the greatest military general on the globe, born with redoubtable physical courage, and a total stranger to...
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...
24._When he saw a certain man. _Moses came not to this spectacle by chance, but forasmuch as God had appointed him to be the deliverer of his people, he would have him show forth this token, and, as i...
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 SEEING ONE OF THEM SUFFER WRONG,.... Beza's Cambridge copy, and one of Stephens's, and one in the Bodleian library add, "of his own kindred": and so Exodus 2:11 he is said to be "one of his brethr...
And seeing one _of them_ suffer wrong, he defended _him_, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian: Ver. 24. _And avenged him_] Wherein haply he was too hasty to do justice before h...
_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...
AND SEEING ONE OF _THEM_ SUFFER WRONG, HE DEFENDED AND AVENGED HIM WHO WAS OPPRESSED, AND STRUCK DOWN THE EGYPTIAN. 1. He witnessed the abuse that others were suffering under bondage. 2. Moses struc...
And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, smiting the Egyptian: 'SEEING'-He decided to take things into his own hands (see Exodus 2:11)....
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...
This fact of Moses some defend by the law of nature, which allows us to protect the innocent; but many things we know were done by an extraordinary warrant, which we are not to imitate; nor by our own...
Acts 7:24 And G2532 seeing G1492 (G5631) one G5100 wrong G91 (G5746) defended G292 (G5662) and...
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...
‘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...
_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 7:24. SUFFER WRONG. That is, injured by blows, as in Exodus 2:11. AND SMOTE THE EGYPTIAN. He struck the Egyptian who did the wrong so as to kill him. ‘The Egyptian,' simply without any previous...
SUFFER WRONG (αδικουμενον). Present passive participle of αδικηο. By blows (Exodus 2:11).AVENGED (εποιησεν εκδικησιν). First aorist active indicative of ποιεω. This idiom occurs in Luke 18:7 with...
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...
_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...
_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...
_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...
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...
_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...
_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...
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...
Acts 7:28; John 18:10; John 18:11; John 18:25...
Defended [η μ υ ν α τ ο]. Only here in New Testament. The word means originally to ward off from one's self, with a collateral notion of requital or revenge....
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...
Seeing one wronged — Probably by one of the task masters....