Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 7:30
The angel — The Son of God; as appears from his styling himself Jehovah. In a flame of fire — Signifying the majesty of God then present. Exodus 3:2.
The angel — The Son of God; as appears from his styling himself Jehovah. In a flame of fire — Signifying the majesty of God then present. Exodus 3:2.
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...
ACTS 7:30 a;ggeloj The Western and the Antiochian texts (D H P S 614 syrp, h arm eth Augustine) insert kuri,ou, a natural addition, especially in the light of Exodus 3:2. The AV follows the exp...
Verse 30. _IN A FLAME OF FIRE IN A BUSH._] See this and the following verses largely explained in the notes, see Clarke Exodus 3:1....
AND WHEN FORTY YEARS ... - At the age of 80 years. This, however, was known by tradition. It is not expressly mentioned by Moses. It is said, however, to have been after the king of Egypt had died Exo...
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...
EXPIRED. fulfilled. Greek. _pleroo,_ as in Acts 7:23. OF THE LORD. The texts omit. OF FIRE IN. BUSH. of. burning bush. Figure of speech _Antimereia._ App-6....
_And when forty years were expired_ Thus making, with the forty years mentioned in Acts 7:23, eighty years, the age at which Moses went unto Pharaoh (Exodus 7:7). _there appeared to him in the wildern...
Omit κυρίου with אABC. _Vulg_. has ‘angelus’ only. 30. ἘΤΩ͂Ν ΤΕΣΣΕΡΆΚΟΝΤΑ, _forty years_, thus making, with the forty years mentioned in Acts 7:23, eighty years, the age at which Moses went unto Phar...
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...
ΠΛΗΡΩΘΈΝΤΩΝ _aor. pass. part. (temp.), см._ Acts 7:23. _Gen. abs._ ΏΦΘΗ _aor. ind. pass._, _см._ Acts 7:2. ΦΛΟΓΊ _dat. sing. от_ ΦΛΌΞ (G5395) пламя. Согласно Филону, горящий огонь символизировал в то...
AND WHEN FORTY YEARS WERE EXPIRED,— This circumstance might have been handed down by tradition, or received by immediate inspiration, as the express time of Moses's continuance in voluntary exile isno...
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,...
30-37. There were other incidents in the life of Moses fully as much to his purpose as this; and to these he proceeds to advert. (30) "_And when forty years were completed, there appeared to him, in t...
And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush. AND WHEN FORTY YEARS WERE EXPIRED - (see the note at Act...
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...
FORTY YEARS] Another tradition. The rabbis said, 'Moses lived in Pharaoh's palace 40 years, in Midian 40 years, and ministered to Israel 40 years.' AN ANGEL] in Exodus 3:2; 'the angel of Jehovah,' who...
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...
THERE APPEARED TO HIM IN THE WILDERNESS. — With the exception of the substitution of Sina, or Sinai, for the less familiar Horeb, the fact is stated in nearly the same words as in Exodus 3:2. The refe...
πληρωθέντων, see Acts 7:23, _cf._ Exodus 7:7, “fulfilled,” R.V. ὤφθη, Acts 7:2, so the second fundamental revelation of God to Israel took place in the wilderness far away from the Promised Land (Weis...
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...
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...
And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an (l) angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush. (l) Now, he calls the Son of God an angel, for he is th...
_In a flame of fire, in a bush. [3] Literally, in the fire of a flame of the bush. The sense must be, that the bush seemed on fire, and in a flame, and yet was not consumed. (Witham)_ [BIBLIOGRAPHY]...
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...
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...
30._And when forty years were expired. _As Moses was no blockish man, (424) every one of us may easily gather how many things might have come into his mind which might have caused him to mistrust his...
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 WHEN FORTY YEARS WERE EXPIRED,.... "Forty other years" the Arabic version reads; for so long the Jews g say Moses kept Jethro's flock, and so many years he lived in Midian; and so the Syriac versi...
And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush. Ver. 30. See Exodus 3:2 ....
_When forty years were expired_ That is, forty after his leaving Egypt; during which time Israel had continued under this bondage, and Moses, inured to hardships and poverty, and to contemplation and...
AN ANGEL OF THE LORD; who was Jehovah himself. He is spoken of in Exodus 23:20-21, as one in whom is God's name, and who has power to pardon sin. He is, therefore, with reason supposed to be the same...
AND WHEN FORTY YEARS WERE EXPIRED, THERE APPEARED TO HIM IN THE WILDERNESS OF MOUNT SINA AN ANGEL OF THE LORD IN A FLAME OF FIRE IN A BUSH....
The call of Moses:...
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 WHEN FORTY YEARS HAD PASSED, AN ANGEL OF THE LORD APPEARED TO HIM IN A FLAME OF FIRE IN A BUSH, IN THE WILDERNESS OF MOUNT SINAI. 1. Think about the life of Moses. 1. 40 years in Pharaoh's hou...
And when forty years were fulfilled, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in. flame of fire in. bush. 'WHEN FORTY YEARS WERE FULFILLED'-His time in Midian was part of. Divine pl...
30-41 Men deceive themselves, if they think God cannot do what he sees to be good any where; he can bring his people into a wilderness, and there speak comfortably to them. He appeared to Moses in a...
FORTY YEARS; so long it pleased God to try Moses's faith, and his people's patience. MOUNT SINAI, in the desert of Arabia, where the law was afterwards delivered, EXODUS 18:5, EXODUS 19:3. AN ANGEL; n...
30-37. There were other incidents in the life of Moses fully as much to his purpose as this; and to these he proceeds to advert. (30) "_ And when forty years were completed, there appeared to him, in...
Acts 7:30 And G2532 forty G5062 years G2094 passed G4137 (G5685) Angel G32 Lord G2962 appeared G3700 ...
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...
‘And when forty years were fulfilled, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush. And when Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight, and as he drew near to g...
_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 7:30. IN THE WILDERNESS OF MOUNT SINAI. In Exodus 3:1, the flaming fire in the bush appeared to Moses at Horeb. In the Pentateuch, the names of Sinai and Horeb appear to be used indiscriminately....
Sentence begins with genitive absolute again.IN A FLAME OF FIRE IN A BUSH (εν φλογ πυρος βατου). Horeb in Exodus 3:1; but Sinai and Horeb were "probably peaks of one mountain range" (Page), Horeb "th...
ANGEL (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...
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...
AFTER FORTY YEARS HAD PASSED. God's choosing and sending Moses is told in Exodus 3:1-10....
_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...
_And when the forty years were expired there appeared to him an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush._ THE BURNING BUSH A sign and a type-- I. Of Israel. As in Egypt, it resembled a degen...
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 Kings 19:8; Acts 7:17; Acts 7:32; Acts 7:35; Daniel 3:27;...
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...
St. Stephen here goes on with the history of Moses, and having, in the former verses, made mention of what occurred to him in Egypt and in Madian, here an account is given of what happened to him in t...