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Acts 7:49
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?
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?
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...
HEAVEN IS MY THRONE - See the notes on Matthew 5:34. EARTH IS MY FOOTSTOOL - See the notes on Matthew 5:35. WHAT HOUSE ... - What house or temple can be large or magnificent enough for the dwelling o...
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...
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...
"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...
EARTH. Greek. _ge,_ as in Acts 7:3. MY FOOTSTOOL. the footstool of my feet, as in Acts 2:35. Compare Matthew 5:35, and see note on Matthew 22:44
_Heaven is my throne_, &c. The quotation is nearly verbatim from the LXX....
Ὁ ΟΥ̓ΡΑΝῸΣ Κ.Τ.Λ. The quotation is nearly verbatim from the LXX....
Acts 7:1-53. STEPHEN’S DEFENCE...
_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...
ΎΠΟΠΌΔΙΟΝ (G5286) подножие, ΠΟΊΟΝ (G4169) _асс. sing._ какой? какого рода? ΟΊΚΟΔΟΜΉΣΕΤΕ _fut. ind. act., см._ Acts 7:47. ΚΑΤΑΠΑΎΣΕΩΣ _gen. sing. от_ ΚΑΤΆΠΑΥΣΙΣ (G2663) приют. _Gen._ описания....
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...
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? HEAVEN IS MY THRONE, AND EARTH IS MY FOOTSTOOL: WHAT HOUSE WILL YE BUI...
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...
τίς τόπος for ποῖος, and οὐχὶ introducing the conclusion instead of γάρ -Although Solomon had expressed this same truth in the dedicatory prayer of his temple, St. Stephen appeals to the great Messian...
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...
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...
49.For whereas he saith, that _heaven is his seat, and the earth his footstool_, it must not be so understood as if he had a body, or could be divided into parts, after the manner of men; but because...
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...
HEAVEN IS MY THRONE,.... There is the seat of the divine Majesty; there his glory is most conspicuous; there he keeps his court, that is his palace; and there are his attendants, the angels; and from...
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? Ver. 49. _Heaven is my throne, and earth my footstool_] And accordi...
_Howbeit_ Αλλα, _but_, or _yet;_ we are not to imagine that God permitted a temple to be built even then for his own sake: for it was acknowledged, at the same time, by Solomon himself, that _the Most...
Men may so idolize a time, a place, or an outward form of worship, as entirely to unfit them to worship him who is a Spirit "in spirit and in truth," and lead them violently to oppose and bitterly to...
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...
_‘HEAVEN_ _IS MY THRONE, AND EARTH_ _IS MY FOOTSTOOL. WHAT HOUSE WILL YOU BUILD FOR ME? SAYS THE LORD, OR WHAT_ _IS THE PLACE OF MY REST?_ 1. The quote from Isaiah 66:1-2 makes it clear that Heaven a...
The heaven is my throne, And the earth the footstool of my feet: What manner of house will ye build Me? saith the Lord: Or what is the place of My rest?...
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...
The place referred unto, is ISAIAH 66:1. WHAT HOUSE WILL YE BUILD ME, that shall be big enough for one so great as God is? 1 KINGS 8:27....
Acts 7:49 Heaven G3772 My G3427 throne G2362 And G1161 earth G1093 My G3450 footstool G4228 G5286 What...
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...
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...
“The heaven is my throne, And the earth the footstool of my feet. What manner of house will you build Me? says the Lord, Or what is the place of my rest? Did not my hand make all these things?” An...
_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...
WHAT MANNER OF HOUSE (Ποιον οικον). What sort of a house? This interrogative is sometimes scornful as in Acts 4:7; Luke 6:32 (Page). So Stephen shows by Isaiah that Solomon was right that the temple...
LORD Jehovah. (Isaiah 66:1); (Isaiah 66:2)....
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 7:47 The Temples of God. Note: I. The physical creation. "Heaven is My throne; and earth is My footstool. Hath not My hand made these things?" These words refer directly to the material creati...
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...
_But Solomon built Him an house._ THE TEMPLES OF GOD Scripture divides the Divine dispensations into the Patriarchal, the Jewish, and the Christian. We read of three creations, or three classes of he...
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 Kings 22:19; Jeremiah 23:24; Jeremiah 7:4; John 4:21; Malachi 1:11
What house. Rev., more correctly, "what manner of house" [π ο ι ο ν]....
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...
What is the place of my rest? — Have I need to rest?...