Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 7:41
And they made a calf — In imitation of Apis, the Egyptian god: and rejoiced in the works of their hands — In the god they had made.
And they made a calf — In imitation of Apis, the Egyptian god: and rejoiced in the works of their hands — In the god they had made.
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...
AND THEY MADE A CALF - This was made of the ear-rings and ornaments which they had brought from Egypt, Exodus 32:2. Stephen introduces this to remind them how prone the nation had been to reject God,...
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...
"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...
MADE. CALF Greek. _moschopoieo,_. compound word, meaning "were calf-making" Only here. IDOL. Greek. _eidolon._ The first of eleven occurances. Only word so rendered. REJOICED. were rejoicing. Greek....
_and rejoiced_ It was not the voice of them that shout for the mastery, nor of them that cry for being overcome, but the _noise of them that sing_which Moses (Exodus 32:18) heard when he came down fro...
ΚΑῚ ΕΥ̓ΦΡΑΊΝΟΝΤΟ, _and they rejoiced_. It was not the voice of them that shout for the mastery, nor of them that cry for being overcome, but _the noise of them that sing_ which Moses (Exodus 32:18) he...
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...
ΈΜΟΣΧΟΠΟΊΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΜΟΣΧΟΠΟΙΈΩ (G3447) делать тельца, ΆΝΉΓΑΓΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΝΆΓΩ (G321) подводить, приносить жертву (ММ), ΕΎΦΡΑΊΝΟΝΤΟ _impf. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΕΎΦΡΑΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G...
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,...
41-43. Stephen next shows that the same people who so often rejected the servants of God, likewise rejected God himself. (41) "_They made a calf in those days, and brought sacrifice to the idol, and r...
And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. AND THEY MADE A CALF IN THOSE DAYS - in imitation of the ox and bull in Egypt,...
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...
THEY MADE A CALF. — The fact is stated in a compound word which is not found in the LXX. version, and which St. Stephen apparently coined for the purpose. REJOICED IN THE WORKS OF THEIR OWN HANDS. — T...
ἐμοσχοποίησαν : not in LXX or in classical Greek; in Exodus 32:2, ἐποίησαν μόσχον. ἀνήγαγον θυσίαν, _cf._ 1 Kings 3:15 (and 2 Samuel 6:17, A.), for similar use of the word, “quia victima in aram tolli...
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...
Israel's Rebellion That very deliverer was the one who foresaw the day God would raise up another prophet like him. Moses faithfully worked with those Jews who had been called out of bondage. Through...
And they made a (n) calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. (n) This was the superstition of the Egyptian's idolatry: for they worshippe...
IDOLATRY IN THE WILDERNESS 40-43. While Moses tarries forty days on the summit of Sinai, complimented as no other man with the very audience of Jehovah, revealing to him the wonderful truth which he w...
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...
41._And they made a calf. _We may easily gather by that which goeth before, why they were more delighted in that figure than in any other. For although Egypt did swarm with innumerable idols, yet it i...
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 THEY MADE A CALF IN THOSE DAYS,.... Whilst Moses was in the mount; this was done in imitation of the Egyptian idol Apis or Serapis, which was an ox or a bullock; and it was made of the golden earn...
And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. Ver. 41. _And offered sacrifice to the idol_] That is, to the devil, Psalms 106:...
_Whom our fathers would not obey_ Even after all the proofs of his miraculous powers given in Egypt, and at the Red sea; _but thrust him from them_ Acting a part more stupid and ungrateful than that b...
AND THEY MADE A CALF IN THOSE DAYS, AND OFFERED SACRIFICE UNTO THE IDOL, AND REJOICED IN THE WORKS OF THEIR OWN HANDS. With the progress of his speech of defense, the impassioned fervor of Stephen's a...
The disobedience of the Jews:...
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 THEY MADE A CALF IN THOSE DAYS, OFFERED SACRIFICES TO THE IDOL, AND REJOICED IN THE WORKS OF THEIR OWN HANDS. 1. It is an interesting thought process. 1. They design an idol figurine. 2. They g...
And they made. calf in those days, and brought. sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands. Points to Note: 'The greater flagrance of this sin appears from the fact that it wa...
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...
THEY MADE A CALF; in imitation of the Egyptians, who worshipped their god Apis in that, or the like form of an ox. THE IDOL; the calf which they had made, which they could not be so sottish as to term...
41-43. Stephen next shows that the same people who so often rejected the servants of God, likewise rejected God himself. (41) "_ They made a calf in those days, and brought sacrifice to the idol, and...
Acts 7:41 And G2532 calf G3447 (G5656) in G1722 those G1565 days G2250 G2532 offered G321 ...
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 they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.' The people had quite blatantly made a calf and sacrificed to their idol, and rejoic...
Acts 7:41. AND THEY MADE A CALF IN THOSE DAYS. The famous golden calf, made originally under the direction of the high priest Aaron, while his brother was in the mount of God, and which was subsequent...
_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...
THEY MADE A CALF (εμοσχοποιησαν). First aorist active indicative of μοσχοποιεω, here only in the N.T. and unknown elsewhere. The LXX (Exodus 32:3) has εποιησε μοσχον from which phrase the word is e...
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...
BUT OUR ANCESTORS REFUSED TO OBEY HIM. These verses sum up the disobedience of Israel. Stephen shows that the rejection of Jesus has roots deep in their own past. Compare Exodus 16:3; Exodus 17:4; Exo...
_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...
_To whom our fathers would not obey._ THE SIN OF ISRAEL I. Its manifold nature. 1. Disobedience (Acts 7:39). There is hardly a phase of Jewish history in which this sin does not appear. It was manif...
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...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 7:40 The golden CALF incident illustrates the Israelites’ continuing rejection of Moses’ leadership and their idolatry. ⇐...
_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...
Deuteronomy 9:12; Exodus 32:17; Exodus 32:2; Habakkuk 2:18; Hosea
They made a calf [ε μ ο σ χ ο π ο ι η σ α ν]. Only here in New Testament, and not in Septuagint. Bengel says, "A very notorious crime is denoted by an extraordinary and newly - coined word." This was...
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...