Acts 7:57

Then they cried out Better, But, &c.

and stopped their ears Thus shewing that they merited the description given in Acts 7:51. The verb signifies, to compress, to hold tight together. On the action thus described cp. T. B. Kethuboth5 b, "Wherefore is the whole ear hard but the flap soft? That if any hear an unbecoming word he may press upthe flap and shut his ear."

and ran[rushed] upon him with one accord As though he were one convicted of idolatry, in which case (Deuteronomy 13:9-10) "the hand of all the people" was to be upon the offender.