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Acts 7:7
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.
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.
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 7:7. _WILL I JUDGE_] κρινωεγω, _I will punish_, for in this sense the Greek word is frequently taken. "When," says Bp. _Pearce_, "a malefactor is brought before a judge, the judge does _thr...
AND THE NATION ... - Referring particularly to the Egyptians. WILL I JUDGE - The word “judge,” in the Bible, often means to “execute judgment” as well as to pronounce it; that is, “to punish.” See Joh...
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...
ABRAHAM AND THE PATRIARCHS. The High Priest invites Stephen to plead to the charge. Addressing his audience in the style used by Paul (Acts 22:1), Stephen speaks of the theophany to Abraham, placing i...
The high priest said, "Is this so?" And Stephen said, "Men, brothers and fathers, listen to what I have to say. The God of glory appeared to Abraham our father when he was in Mesopotamia, before he li...
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...
NATION. Greek. _ethnos._ See note on Acts 4:25; Acts 4:27. TO WHOM, &C.. whom they shall serve. Greek. _douleuo._ App-190. JUDGE. Greek. _krino._ App-122. THAT. these things. SERVE. worship. Greek....
_after that shall they come forth_ The first prophecy (Genesis 15:14) of this Exodus adds "with great substance." _and serve me in this place_ These words are not in the promise given to Abraham, but...
Ὁ ΘΕῸΣ ΕἾΠΕΝ with אABC. 7. ὮΙ ἘᾺΝ ΔΟΥΛΕΎΣΟΥΣΙΝ, _to whom they shall be in bondage_. This construction of the future indicative after ἐὰν is not uncommon in the LXX. Cf. Deuteronomy 5:27, λαλήσεις πάντ...
Acts 7:1-53. STEPHEN’S DEFENCE...
_THE CALL OF ABRAHAM ACTS 7:1-8:_ The High Priest wanted to know if the things said about Stephen were true. Stephen's faith in Hebrew history was strong because he knew it was God at work. Stephen be...
ΔΟΥΛΕΎΣΟΥΣΙΝ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΔΟΥΛΕΎΩ (G1398) быть рабом, находиться в рабстве. О форме FUT. _ind._ с ΈΆΝ (G1437) _см._ BD, 192. ΈΞΕΛΕΎΣΟΝΤΑΙ _fut. ind. med. (dep.), см._ Acts 7:3. ΛΑΤΡΕΎΣΟΥΣΙΝ _f...
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 5...
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. AND THE NATION TO WHOM THEY SHALL BE IN BONDAGE WILL I JUD...
13 These synagogues were doubtless very lax in their adherence to the Jewish law and customs, yet they are not ashamed to charge Stephen with this, in order to inflame the Sanhedrin against him. The f...
7:7 serve (e-25) _ Latreuo_ , as ver. 42; Matthew 4:10 ....
IN THIS PLACE] in Canaan, not Sinai, as is the case in Exodus 3:12....
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 AFTER THAT SHALL THEY COME FORTH. — The verse combines the promise to Abraham in Genesis 15:17 with a free rendering of the sign given to Moses (Exodus 3:12), which referred not to Canaan but to H...
CHAPTER 15 ST. STEPHEN'S DEFENCE AND THE DOCTRINE OF INSPIRATION. Acts 6:12; Acts 7:1 ST. STEPHEN and St. Philip are the two prominent names among the primitive deacons. Stephen, however, much surp...
The _oratio recta_ is introduced by the words εἶπεν ὁ Θεός … κρινῶ ἐγώ emphatic, _cf._ Romans 12:19. In this verse the quotation is a free rendering of Genesis 15:14, the words ὧδε μετὰ ἀποσκευῆς πολλ...
STEPHEN'S DEFENSE: GOD'S FIRST CALLED ONES Acts 7:1-13 There are several touches in this eloquent apology which deserve notice. Acts 7:2: “The God of glory.” This chapter begins and ends with glory....
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...
A Face Like an Angel Perhaps Paul reported to Luke the remarkable appearance of the face of Stephen. Luke told Theophilus that those in the council saw Stephen's face "as the face of an angel." The cl...
_The nation which they shall serve, I will judge. The meaning is, that God would afflict the Egyptians with divers plagues, or visible punishments, before they dismissed the Israelites. (Witham)_...
EXPATRIATION 1-7. Despite the awful doom of the antediluvians, the people after the flood soon became terribly wicked. While they constantly ploughed up the bones of their antediluvian predecessors, f...
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 Haran, (3) And said unto him, Get thee out of thy co...
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...
7._The nation whom they shall serve. _This judgment is joined with the deliverance of the people. For, whereas God doth punish the cruelty and tyranny of the wicked Egyptians, he doth that for his peo...
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 THE NATION TO WHOM THEY SHALL BE IN BONDAGE,.... At the end of the four hundred years, and which was the Egyptian nation: I WILL JUDGE, SAID GOD; that is, condemn and punish them, as he did, by i...
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. Ver. 7. _And serve me in this place_] _Servati sumus ut servi...
_And God spake, that his seed should sojourn in a strange land_ When God had brought Abraham into this country, he did not keep him and his posterity here till the time when they were to enter upon th...
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...
7'_ AND THE NATION TO WHOM THEY WILL BE IN BONDAGE I WILL_ _JUDGE,_ ' SAID GOD, _‘AND AFTER THAT THEY SHALL COME OUT AND SERVE ME IN THIS PLACE._ ' 1. Egypt welcomed them, then felt intimidated, and...
And the nation to which they shall be in bondage will. judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place. 'WILL. JUDGE'-i.e. the Ten plagues recorded in Exodus. (Genes...
1-16 Stephen was charged as a blasphemer of God, and an apostate from the church; therefore he shows that he is a son of Abraham, and values himself on it. The slow steps by which the promise made to...
WILL I JUDGE, or punish; and so the Egyptians were punished, not by human means, but by Divine power, and with God's own immediate hand, and that in the fulness of time, the very night in which God's...
Acts 7:7 And G2532 nation G1484 whom G3739 G1437 bondage G1398 (G5661) I G1473 judge G2919 ...
‘And the nation to which they will be in bondage I will judge, said God, and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.' And eventually God would act. God would judge those who held...
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...
_First Division of the Speech,_ 2-16. _The Age of the Patriarchs Abraham and Joseph._ (a) Acts 7:2-8. _ABRAHAM THE FATHER OF THE FAITHFUL._ Stephen relates the well-known incident, fraught with such m...
EXCURSUS. On certain alleged Discrepancies in Stephen's Speech. A great deal has been written upon certain supposed inaccuracies which occur in the speech of Stephen, as given in the seventh chapter...
Acts 7:7. AND SERVE ME IN THIS PLACE. A quotation from the words of the Eternal spoken to Moses in the burning bush on Mount Horeb: ‘In this place' that is, where I now speak to thee. In the passage o...
WILL I JUDGE (κρινω εγω). Future (accent on ω) active indicative of κρινω and εγω (I) expressed is emphatic.IN THIS PLACE (εν τω τοπω τουτω). Quoted from Exodus 3:12 and referring to Sinai or Hor...
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...
_When his father was dead He removed him into this land._ THE DIFFICULTY AS TO THE DATE OF ABRAHAM’S MIGRATION Terah died at Haran at the age of two hundred and five (Genesis 11:32.). From Genesis 11...
_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 7:7 Combining Genesis 15:13 with Exodus 3:12, Stephen spoke of God’s assurances to Abraham that after 400 years his
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 7:2. Concerning what Stephen SAID in reply, Luke’s information may have been derived either from Paul, who probably was present on the occasion (Acts 26:10), and afterwards in...
_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...
Exodus 14:31; Exodus 3:12; Genesis 15:14; Isaiah 51:10; Isaiah 51:9;...
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...
They shall serve me — Not the Egyptians....