Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 7:25
They understood it not — Such was their stupidity and sloth; which made him afterward unwilling to go to them.
They understood it not — Such was their stupidity and sloth; which made him afterward unwilling to go to them.
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 7:25. _HE SUPPOSED HIS BRETHREN WOULD HAVE UNDERSTOOD_, c.] He probably imagined that, as he felt from the Divine influence he was appointed to be their deliverer, they would have his Divi...
FOR HE SUPPOSED - This is not mentioned by Moses; but it is not at all improbable. When they saw him “alone” contending with the Egyptian; when it was understood that he had come and taken vengeance 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...
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...
"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...
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...
WOULD HAVE. Omit. DELIVER THEM. give them salvation....
_for he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them_ Better, AND _he supposed that his brethren_ UNDERSTOOD _how that God by his hand_ WAS GIVING THEM DELIV...
Omit αὐτοῦ after ἈΔΕΛΦΟῪΣ with אBC. _Vulg_. ‘fratres’ only. ΣΩΤΗΡΊΑΝ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΙ͂Σ with אABCD. _Vulg_. ‘salutem illis.’ 25. ἘΝΌΜΙΖΕΝ ΔῈ ΣΥΝΙΈΝΑΙ … ΣΩΤΗΡΊΑΝ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΙ͂Σ. Render, _and he supposed that his bret...
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...
ΈΝΌΜΙΖΕΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΝΟΜΊΖΩ (G3543) предполагать, ΣΥΝΙΈΝΑΙ _praes. act. inf. от_ ΣΥΝΊΗΜΙ (G4920) воспринимать, понимать. _Inf._ в косвенной речи, ΔΊΔΩΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act., см._ Acts 7:5....
HE SUPPOSED HIS BRETHREN WOULD HAVE UNDERSTOOD— It appears from this passage, that Moses had received some immediate revelation from God, that he was the person who should deliver Israel: besides, kno...
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...
For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not. FOR, [ de (G1161)] - 'But' or 'Now,' explaining the view under which he acte...
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...
FOR HE SUPPOSED HIS BRETHREN WOULD HAVE UNDERSTOOD... — Better, _and he supposed._ The Greek conjunction never has the meaning of “for,” and the insertion of that word gives to the act of slaying the...
ἐνόμιζε δὲ : a comment by St. Stephen, but we are not told upon what grounds Moses based his expectation (see however Lumby's note, _in loco_). The verb is found in Luke 2:44; Luke 3:23, and seven tim...
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...
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...
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...
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...
FOR HE SUPPOSED HIS BRETHREN WOULD HAVE UNDERSTOOD HIM,.... From his being an Hebrew in such high life; from his wonderful birth, and miraculous preservation in his infancy, and education in Pharaoh's...
For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not. Ver. 25. _But they understood not_] For by this time they through long and har...
_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...
FOR HE SUPPOSED HIS BRETHREN WOULD HAVE UNDERSTOOD HOW THAT GOD BY HIS HAND WOULD DELIVER THEM; BUT THEY UNDERSTOOD NOT....
Moses attempts to deliver his people:...
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...
FOR HE SUPPOSED THAT HIS BRETHREN WOULD HAVE UNDERSTOOD THAT GOD WOULD DELIVER THEM BY HIS HAND, BUT THEY DID NOT UNDERSTAND. 1. He thought they would understand. God was preparing him to deliver the...
and he supposed that his brethren understood that God by his hand was giving them deliverance; but they understood not. 'SUPPOSED'-'Moses looked upon the slaying of the Egyptian as being. signal for...
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 they might have inferred, 1. From his extraordinary deliverance out of the Egyptians hands, and out of the river, when young. 2. From his readiness to defend them: it was wonderful, that such a...
Acts 7:25 For G1161 supposed G3543 (G5707) his G846 brethren G80 understood G4920 (G5721) that G3754 God...
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...
Acts 7:25. HE SUPPOSED HIS BRETHREN WOULD HAVE UNDERSTOOD. Some communication had probably taken place between him and his kinsmen since the time when it had first come into Moses' heart to visit his...
_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...
HE SUPPOSED (ενομιζεν). Imperfect active of νομιζω. He was supposing, Stephen explains, when he smote the Egyptian.THAT HIS BRETHREN UNDERSTOOD (συνιενα τους αδελφους). Present active infinitive...
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...
1 Corinthians 15:10; 1 Corinthians 3:9; 1 Samuel 14:45; 1 Samuel 19:5;...
Understood [σ υ ν ι ε ν α ι] See on understanding, Mark 12:33....
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...