Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 7:48
Yet the Most High inhabiteth not temples made with hands — As Solomon declared at the very dedication of the temple, 1 Kings 8:27. The Most High — Whom as such no building can contain. Isaiah 66:1.
Yet the Most High inhabiteth not temples made with hands — As Solomon declared at the very dedication of the temple, 1 Kings 8:27. The Most High — Whom as such no building can contain. Isaiah 66:1.
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 7:48 profh,thj After “prophet” copG67 adds “Isaiah” (see also the comment on ver. 42)....
Verse 48. _THE MOST HIGH DWELLETH NOT IN TEMPLES MADE WITH HANDS_] Here St. Stephen evidently refers to Solomon's speech, 1 Kings 8:27. _But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, the heaven, an...
HOWBEIT - But. Stephen was charged with speaking against the temple. He had now shown that he had due veneration for it, by his declaring that it had been built by the command of God. But he “now” add...
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...
The speech comes nearer the charge it is to refute. The Temple itself is wrong. Moses acted on direct Divine injunction as to the tabernacle of witness which he made according to the pattern showed hi...
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...
HOWBEIT, &C. Read, "But not the Most High in hand-made temples dwelleth". The "not"stands first by Figure of speech _Anastrophe._ App-6. THE MOST HIGH. Greek. _hupsistos._ This, as. title of Deity, o...
_Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet_ The oldest authorities omit _temples_. We must supply some English word to complete the sense; perhaps _houses_. S...
ναοῖς omitted with אABCDE. _Vulg_. has ‘in manufactis’ only. 48. ΟΥ̓Χ … ἘΝ ΧΕΙΡΟΠΟΙΉΤΟΙΣ ΚΑΤΟΙΚΕΙ͂, _dwelleth not in places made with hands_. Stephen allows that in the days of Solomon there seemed to...
Acts 7:1-53. STEPHEN’S DEFENCE...
_THE TRUE TABERNACLE OF GOD ACTS 7:44-50:_ Israel had the tabernacle of witness. The tabernacle was built according to the pattern shown Moses. The Tabernacle was a perpetual witness between God and t...
ΎΨΙΣΤΟΣ (G5310) Всевышний. В эллинистических текстах это слово относится к Зевсу, но в Септ, оно используется как перевод_евр._ עלץ, Elyon (EDNT; SB, 2:99; TDNT; Barrett), ΧΕΙΡΟΠΟΊΗΤΟΣ (G5499) рукотв...
AND DESIRED TO FIND A TABERNACLE, &C.— 'Ητησατο, _made it his petition._ From the account which the Scripture gives of David, it appears how greatly he longed to find out a place for the Lord,—_an hab...
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 44...
Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, HOWBEIT THE MOST HIGH DWELLETH NOT IN [TEMPLES] MADE WITH HANDS. The word "temples," though in the Received Text...
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...
7:48 High (d-4) See Luke 1:32 . prophet, (e-15) See Isaiah 66:1 ,Isaiah 66:2 ....
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...
Stephen's words do not indicate that the building of Solomon's Temple was a mistake, but they do indicate that God's worship is not necessarily tied to one place, and that the divine choice of Jerusal...
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...
HOWBEIT THE MOST HIGH DWELLETH NOT IN TEMPLES. — The sequel shows the impression which these words made on the hearers. Stephen had risen to the truth which, though it had been proclaimed before, had...
ἀλλʼ οὐχ : But the presence of the Most High (in contrast to the smallness of any building made by hands) was not so confined the previous words must not be misunderstood by Stephen's hearers. Solomon...
A MARTYR'S GLORIOUS DEATH Acts 7:47-60 Words like these could not be forgiven. The growing irritation of the audience seems to have extorted those burning remonstrances, and to have hastened the fin...
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...
God's True House The pattern for the making of the tabernacle was one of the things God revealed through Moses. Very clearly, Stephen noted that God intended for His pattern to be followed exactly (He...
But the most High dwelleth not in houses made by hands. God is every where, nor is his presence confined to the temple, which was already once destroyed; and what if it be destroyed again, as Christ f...
CHURCH EDIFICES 44-50. Here Stephen alludes to the grand spiritual meaning of the portable tabernacle which God dictated to Moses on Sinai and the beautiful symbolic significance of Solomon's temple....
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...
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...
HOWBEIT THE MOST HIGH DWELLETH NOT IN TEMPLES MADE WITH HANDS,.... Such an one as Solomon's was; he did indeed dwell in his temple, but he was not confined to it, nor included in it, or circumscribed...
Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, Ver. 48. _Howbeit, the Most High dwelleth not_] This he subjoineth, because the Jews bore themselves so bold upon...
_Howbeit_ Αλλα, _but_, or _yet;_ we are not to imagine that God permitted a temple to be built even then for his own sake: for it was acknowledged, at the same time, by Solomon himself, that _the Most...
The Tabernacle and the Temple:...
HOWBEIT, THE MOST HIGH DWELLETH NOT IN TEMPLES MADE WITH HANDS, AS SAITH THE PROPHET,...
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...
" HOWEVER, THE MOST HIGH DOES NOT DWELL IN TEMPLES MADE WITH HANDS, AS THE PROPHET SAYS: 1. The charge against Stephen was his supposed contempt for the Temple. He has now shown that The Temple was b...
Howbeit the Most High dwelleth not in houses made with hands; as saith the prophet, 'AS SAITH THE PROPHET'-(Isaiah 2:1)...
42-50 Stephen upbraids the Jews with the idolatry of their fathers, to which God gave them up as a punishment for their early forsaking him. It was no dishonour, but an honour to God, that the tabern...
This is also St. Paul's doctrine, ACTS 17:21, which divers amongst the wiser heathens were persuaded of; for God cannot be comprehended in any place, no, not where he is worshipped; and therefore they...
Acts 7:48 However G235 High G5310 not G3756 dwell G2730 (G5719) in G1722 temples G3485 hands G5499 as...
WHAT ISRAEL'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS GOD'S DWELLINGPLACE HAD BEEN (7:44-50). What Stephen said here would mainly have been acceptable to many Hellenistic Jews, certainly in Alexandria where they were used...
REPLY TO THE CHARGE OF SPEAKING AGAINST THE LAW AND THE TEMPLE (7:44-53). Having been accused of speaking against the Law Stephen defends himself by speaking in favour of the oracles of God and point...
‘However the Most High does not dwell in houses made with hands; as says the prophet,' Thus the Temple was an error, a concession allowed by God but not really adequate (2 Samuel 7:6). The Most High d...
_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...
Acts 7:48. HOWBEIT THE MOST HIGH DWELLETH NOT IN TEMPLES. The temple was built at last, but the wise king, its builder, at the solemn dedication, seemed to foresee the superstitious reverence with whi...
HOWBEIT (αλλ'). By contrast with what Solomon did and David planned. Note emphatic position of "not" (αλλ' ουχ), "But not does the Most High dwell." The presence of the Most High is not confined in...
Acts 7:47 The Temples of God. Note: I. The physical creation. "Heaven is My throne; and earth is My footstool. Hath not My hand made these things?" These words refer directly to the material creati...
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...
OUR ANCESTORS HAD THE TENT OF GOD'S PRESENCE. [_Tabernacle_ is an old word for _tent._] This tent was a "portable temple," and served to focus the worship of God and act as a witness to the Covenant....
_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...
_But Solomon built Him an house._ THE TEMPLES OF GOD Scripture divides the Divine dispensations into the Patriarchal, the Jewish, and the Christian. We read of three creations, or three classes of he...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 7:48 Stephen quotes Isaiah 66:1 to establish that God does not dwell IN HOUSES. Israel’s error was in confining God to the temple. Further, Stephen suggests that ne
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 7:45. OUR FATHERS THAT CAME AFTER should be simply _our fathers._ JESUS is _Joshua_, as in Hebrews 4:8. INTO (lit. in) THE POSSESSION OF THE GENTILES.—Meaning that the Ark was...
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 8:27; 2 Chronicles 2:5; 2 Chronicles 2:6; 2 Chronicles 6:18;...
The Most High. In contrast with heathen gods, who were confined to their temples. Temples made with hands [χ ε ι ρ ο π ο ι η τ ο ι ς ν α ο ι ς]. The best texts omit naoiv, temples. The meaning is more...
STEPHEN'S LAST WORDS AND MARTYRDOM Acts 7:44 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Let us, by way of opening word, speak a few words on two great benefactions to Israel (see Acts 7:44). 1. THE FATHERS HAD THE TABERNA...