Acts 7:37, 38. "This is that Moses which said unto the children of Israel, A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me; him shall ye hear. This is he that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us." The things which Stephen observes of Moses in these verses serve the more to show the comparison that he makes of the Jews' treatment of Christ with their fathers' treatment of Moses to be apt and pertinent, and to render the application he makes Acts 7:51, "Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye" - the more convincing; for here he observes that Moses himself compares the Messiah to him, and says that He shall be a Prophet like to him; and besides, their fathers in rejecting Moses rejected Christ, for Moses spake and acted in the name of Christ, and as His messenger and instrument, and Christ was with him in what he did and said, as Stephen observes, verse 38, that Moses was with the angel (i.e., Christ) in Mount Sinai, and spake to Him, and with our fathers, who received the lively oracles to give unto us; so that Moses spake His words, and [so] as that in rejecting Moses they rejected Christ's own words, and their murmurings against him and opposition to him was really opposition to Christ.

Acts 8:20-22

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