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Acts 7:46
who found favor before God, and desired to and a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
who found favor before God, and desired to and a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
ACTS 7:46 oi;kw| {B} Of the two readings, oi;kw| is to be preferred on the basis of both external evidence (it is supported by a combination of Alexandrian and Western witnesses: î74 a* B D copsapt _...
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 46. _DESIRED TO FIND A TABERNACLE_] This was in David's heart, and it met with the Divine approbation: see 2 Samuel 7:2, c., and see the purpose, Psalms 132:2 but, as David had been a man of wa...
WHO FOUND FAVOUR ... - That is, God granted him great prosperity, and delivered him from his enemies. TO FIND A TABERNACLE - To prepare a permanent dwelling-place for the “ark,” and for the visible sy...
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...
The speech comes nearer the charge it is to refute. The Temple itself is wrong. Moses acted on direct Divine injunction as to the tabernacle of witness which he made according to the pattern showed hi...
"It was this man who said to the sons of Israel, 'God will raise up a prophet from among your brothers, like me.' It was this Moses who was in the gathering of the people in the wilderness, with the a...
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...
BEFORE. in the eyes of. Greek. _enopion._ DESIRED. asked. Greek. _aiteo._ App-134. See 2 Samuel 7:2; 2 Samuel 7:3. TABERNACLE. Greek. _skenoma._ Only here and 2 Peter 1:13;...
_to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob_ referring to Psalms 132:5, "Until I find out a place for the Lord, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob." A reading which is largely accepted gives, "f...
Acts 7:1-53. STEPHEN’S DEFENCE...
ΟἼΚΩΙ for θεῷ with אBDH. _Vulg_. has ‘Deo.’ 46. ΕὙΡΕΙ͂Ν ΣΚΉΝΩΜΑ ΤΩ͂Ι ΟἼΚΩΙ ἸΑΚΏΒ, _to find a tabernacle for the house of Jacob_. This is the reading preferred by most critics. Tischendorf says ‘τῷ οἴ...
_THE TRUE TABERNACLE OF GOD ACTS 7:44-50:_ Israel had the tabernacle of witness. The tabernacle was built according to the pattern shown Moses. The Tabernacle was a perpetual witness between God and t...
ΕΎΡΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΕΥΡΊΣΚΩ (G2147) находить, ΉΤΉΣΑΤΟ _aor. ind. med. от_ ΑΊΤΈΩ спрашивать; _med._ просить о милости для себя, ΕΎΡΕΪ́Ν _aor. act. inf., inf._ в косвенной речи, ΣΚΉΝΩΜΑ (G4638...
AND DESIRED TO FIND A TABERNACLE, &C.— 'Ητησατο, _made it his petition._ From the account which the Scripture gives of David, it appears how greatly he longed to find out a place for the Lord,—_an hab...
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 44...
Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. WHO FOUND FAVOUR BEFORE GOD AND DESIRED, [ eeteesato (G154)] - or, 'asked for himself' TO FIND A TABERNACLE, ...
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...
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...
WHO FOUND FAVOUR BEFORE GOD. — Again we trace, though still in the form of a narrative, an indirect answer to the accusation brought against Stephen. He was ready to acknowledge without reserve that t...
ὃς εὗρε χάριν, _cf._ Luke 1:30, Hebraistic, _cf._ Genesis 6:8; it may be tacitly implied that had the temple been so important as the Jew maintained, God would have allowed the man who found favour be...
STEPHEN'S DEFENSE: DISOBEDIENCE IN THE WILDERNESS Acts 7:30-46 The angel who appeared in the bush that burned with fire was the angel of God's presence, who saved the Israelites and bare them and car...
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...
God's True House The pattern for the making of the tabernacle was one of the things God revealed through Moses. Very clearly, Stephen noted that God intended for His pattern to be followed exactly (He...
CHURCH EDIFICES 44-50. Here Stephen alludes to the grand spiritual meaning of the portable tabernacle which God dictated to Moses on Sinai and the beautiful symbolic significance of Solomon's temple....
And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush. (31) When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he...
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...
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...
WHO FOUND FAVOUR BEFORE GOD,.... That is, David, who had an interest in the free favour and love of God, was chosen of God, a man after his own heart, and raised up to do his will; and who had the gra...
Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. Ver. 46. _Who found favour_] This he made more account of than of his crown and sceptre, Psalms 4:6. Like as when h...
_Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness_ Greek, του μαρτυριου, _of the testimony._ The two tables of stone, on which the ten commandments were written, were most properly _the testimony_, as being...
TABERNACLE; this is a different word from that which is translated tabernacle in verse Acts 7:44, and here means a permanent structure, or fixed habitation. 2 Samuel 7:2-7; 1 CHRONICLES 22:7-19....
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...
WHO FOUND FAVOR BEFORE GOD AND ASKED TO FIND A DWELLING FOR THE GOD OF JACOB. 1. The reference to the days of David goes back to the original topic, the tabernacle. David desired to build a permanent...
who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find. habitation for the God of Jacob....
42-50 Stephen upbraids the Jews with the idolatry of their fathers, to which God gave them up as a punishment for their early forsaking him. It was no dishonour, but an honour to God, that the tabern...
FOUND FAVOUR BEFORE GOD; as LUKE 1:30. DESIRED TO FIND A TABERNACLE FOR THE GOD OF JACOB; it was David's earnest request, that he might any ways glorify God, especially in his worship, and that he mig...
Acts 7:46 who G3739 found G2147 (G5627) favor G5485 before G1799 God G2316 and G2532 asked G154 ...
‘Who found favour in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the house of Jacob (or in some MSS ‘the God of Jacob').' And David himself found favour in God's sight, and wanted to find som...
REPLY TO THE CHARGE OF SPEAKING AGAINST THE LAW AND THE TEMPLE (7:44-53). Having been accused of speaking against the Law Stephen defends himself by speaking in favour of the oracles of God and point...
WHAT ISRAEL'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS GOD'S DWELLINGPLACE HAD BEEN (7:44-50). What Stephen said here would mainly have been acceptable to many Hellenistic Jews, certainly in Alexandria where they were used...
_Third Division of Stephens Speech._ Acts 7:37-53. _Moses and the Prophets._ Moses is again the central figure of the history, but now he stands forward as the great deliverer of the people. Stephen h...
ASKED (ηιτησατο). Aorist middle (indirect) indicative, asked for himself (as a favour to himself). Cf. 2 Samuel 7:2.A HABITATION (σκηνωμα). Like Psalms 132:5, but it was a house that David propose...
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...
OUR ANCESTORS HAD THE TENT OF GOD'S PRESENCE. [_Tabernacle_ is an old word for _tent._] This tent was a "portable temple," and served to focus the worship of God and act as a witness to the Covenant....
_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...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 7:45. OUR FATHERS THAT CAME AFTER should be simply _our fathers._ JESUS is _Joshua_, as in Hebrews 4:8. INTO (lit. in) THE POSSESSION OF THE GENTILES.—Meaning that the Ark was...
_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 17:1; 1 Chronicles 22:7; 1 Chronicles 22:8; 1 Chronicles 28:2;...
Desired [η τ η σ α τ ο]. More correctly, asked : through Nathan. See 2 Samuel 7:2. Tabernacle [σ κ η ν ω μ α]. It was not a tabernacle or tent which David proposed to build, but a house. See 2 Samuel...
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...
Who petitioned to find a habitation for the God of Jacob — But he did not obtain his petition: for God remained without any temple till Solomon built him a house. Observe how wisely the word is chosen...