Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 7:33
Then said the Lord, Loose thy shoes — An ancient token of reverence; for the place is holy ground — The holiness of places depends on the peculiar presence of God there.
Then said the Lord, Loose thy shoes — An ancient token of reverence; for the place is holy ground — The holiness of places depends on the peculiar presence of God there.
ACTS 7:31-34 The manuscript copG67 is unique in making extensive additions to Stephen’s account from the Old Testament and from tradition: “… as he [Moses] drew near to look (there came the voice of...
ACTS 7:33 ei=pen de. auvtw|/ o` ku,rioj Instead of the commonplace introductory clause, “And the Lord said to him,” codex Bezae substitutes the more colorful expression, kai. evge,neto fwnh. pro.j a...
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...
THEN SAID THE LORD ... - In Exodus 3 this is introduced in a different order, as being spoken “before” God said “I am the God,” etc. PUT OFF THY SHOES ... - Exodus 3:5. To put off the shoes; or sandal...
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...
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...
"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...
THY SHOES, &C.. the sandal of thy feet. WHERE. in (Greek. _en)_ which, but the texts read _epi_. GROUND. Greek. _ge._ App-129....
Here we have in substance the history as given in Exodus 3:2-10....
ἘΦ' ὯΙ with אABCD....
These verses give in substance the history as recorded in Exodus 3:2-10...
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...
ΛΫ́ΣΟΝ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΛΎΩ (G3089) отпускать, ΈΣΤΗΚΑΣ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΪΣΤΗΜΙ (G2476) стоять. _Perf._ является intr., "стоять" (NSV, 23). Там, где являлась шехина, запрещалось находиться в...
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 30...
Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground. THEN SAID THE LORD TO HIM, PUT OFF THY SHOES FROM THY FEET. Stephen may seem to have re...
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...
THEN SAID THE LORD TO HIM.... — The words are almost a verbal reproduction of Exodus 3:5; Exodus 3:7. The citation was in part an implied answer to the charge of disregarding the sanctity of places in...
λῦσον, _cf._ Joshua 5:15, λῦσον A., _cf._ Exodus 3:5; in classical Greek, λῦσαι, omitting σου. On the custom of worshipping bare-footed, as the priests when actually engaged in the Temple, or as the A...
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...
Loose the shoes. This was a method of testifying respect among the eastern nations. The Mahometans do not wear their shoes in their mosques. The Jewish priests served in the temple with their shoes of...
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...
Out of the burning bush Jehovah now commissions the sons of Amram to go and preach to the Pharaohs and princes of Egypt. Even the earth in that august presence is so sacred that sandals must be remove...
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...
33._Because the place wherein. _The Lord meant by this commendation which he giveth to the place, to lift up the mind of Moses into heaven, that he might not think upon any earthly thing. And if so be...
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...
THEN SAID THE LORD TO HIM,.... To Moses, who through curiosity had made too near an approach: PUT OFF THY SHOES FROM THY FEET; in token of humility, obedience, and reverence: FOR THE PLACE WHERE THO...
Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground. Ver. 33. _Put off thy shoes_] Thy fleshly affections, and be wholly at my disposal, in th...
_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...
THEN SAID THE LORD TO HIM, PUT OFF THY SHOES FROM THY FEET; FOR THE PLACE WHERE THOU STANDEST IS HOLY GROUND....
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...
33_‘THEN THE LORD SAID TO HIM, _ "_ TAKE YOUR SANDALS OFF YOUR FEET, FOR THE PLACE WHERE YOU STAND IS HOLY GROUND._ 1. When we come into the presence of God - we are on holy ground. While I am not co...
And the Lord said unto him, Loose the shoes from thy feet: for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. 'LOOSE THE SHOES FROM THY FEET'-An act of reverence. The same custom prevails in Eastern...
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...
PUT OFF THY SHOES; either out of reverence to the Divine presence, as JOSHUA 5:15, or that thereby he might show that he resigned himself wholly to God's will and disposal; as in RUTH 4:7, the kinsman...
Acts 7:33 Then G1161 LORD G2962 said G2036 (G5627) him G846 Take G3089 sandals G5266 off G3089 ...
‘And the Lord said to him, “Loose the shoes from your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy ground. I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their groan...
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...
_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 7:33. PUT OFF THY SHOES FROM THY FEET: FOR THE PLACE WHERE THOU STANDEST IS HOLY GROUND. It was, and is still, in the East a mark of reverence to take off the shoes or sandals in the presence of...
HOLY GROUND (γη αγια). The priests were barefooted when they ministered in the temple. Moslems enter their mosques barefooted today. Cf. Joshua 5:15.SANDAL (υποδημα, bound under) is here "a distr...
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....
_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...
_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...
_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 7:18. 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...
_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...
2 Peter 1:18; Ecclesiastes 5:1; Exodus 3:5; Joshua 5:15...
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...