Acts 7:54 to Acts 8:1. Effect of the Speech. Death of Stephen

54. When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart There is a conjunction in the original which is not expressed in the English. Read, Now when, &c. On the last verb, which is only found here and in Acts 7:33, see note there. It expresses the sort of cutting that would be made by a saw, and its effect is always one of irritation, and at last it came to be synonymous with gnashing the teeth for rage, with which expression it is here combined.

and they gnashed on him with their teeth More literally, gnashed their teeth at him.

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