On οὗτος see Acts 7:35. ἐξήγαγεν, Exodus 3:10, καὶ ἐξάξεις τὸν λαόν μου. Ἐρυθρᾷ θαλάσσῃ in LXX frequent, יָם סוּף sometimes with, sometimes without the article, here as in the Heb. without: cf. the parallel in Assumption of Moses, iii., 11 (ed. Charles), and see below on Acts 7:38.
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 7:36 gh|/ Aivgu,ptw| The reading gh|/ Aivgu,ptou (î74 Dgr 1611 1739 vg syrp, h _al_) is obviously a correction of gh|/ Aivgu,ptw| (a A E N P 81 many minuscules). The witnesses of...
Verse 36. _HE BROUGHT THEM OUT, AFTER THAT HE HAD SHOWED WONDERS_, c.] Thus the very person whom they had rejected, and, in effect, delivered up into the hands of Pharaoh that he might be slain, was...
WONDERS AND SIGNS - Miracles, and remarkable interpositions of God. See the notes on Acts 2:22. IN THE LAND OF EGYPT - By the ten plagues. Exo. 4–12. IN THE RED SEA - Dividing it, and conducting the...
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...
"When the time for the fulfillment of the promise which God had told to Abraham drew near, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt, until there arose another king in Egypt who had no knowledge of...
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...
HE. This one. SHEWED. Literally done. See Deuteronomy 31:2; Deuteronomy 34:7. WONDERS. Greek. _teras_. App-176. SIGNS. Greek. _semeion._ App-176....
_He brought_[LED] _them out_ Having God's power with him in all these wanderings. _after that he had skewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt_ The oldest MSS. omit "the land of." Read, _having w...
ἘΝ ΓΗ͂Ι ΑἸΓΎΠΤΩΙ with אAEHP. _Vulg_. ‘in terra Ægypti.’ 36. ΟΥ̓͂ΤΟΣ ἘΞΉΓΑΓΕΝ, _this man led them out_, having God’s power with him. ΣΗΜΕΙ͂Α ἘΝ ΓΗ͂Ι ΑἸΓΎΠΤΩΙ, _signs in the land of Egypt_. There is m...
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...
ΈΞΉΓΑΓΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΞΆΓΩ (G1806) выводить, ΠΟΙΉΣΑΣ _aor. act. part., см._ Acts 7:19. Part, образа действия, поясняющее, как он вывел их. 'ΕΡΥΘΡΆ _dat. sing. fem. от_ ΈΡΥΘΡΌΣ (G2063) красный...
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 30...
He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years. HE BROUGHT THEM OUT AFTER THAT HE HAD SHOWED, [ poieesa...
18 It is probable that the lot of Israel in Egypt was pleasant under the dynasty which was acquainted with Joseph, who made these rulers absolute masters in Egypt, for he got for them all the silver a...
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...
AFTER THAT HE HAD SHEWED WONDERS AND SIGNS. — The two nouns are joined together, as in Deuteronomy 6:22; Matthew 24:24. The words express different relations, it may be, of the same phenomena, rather...
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...
Moses' Rejection By God's People Into such a climate, Moses was born, a child particularly pleasing to God. He was hidden by his parents for three months. Afterward, God caused him to be found by Phar...
THE CHURCH 36-38. _“This is the one who is in the church in the wilderness along with the angel speaking to him in Mt. Sinai and with our fathers.”_ As ecclesia, the word constantly used by the Holy G...
MOSES TYPICAL OF CHRIST 17-40. While Joseph so beautifully and vividly emblematizes King Jesus, both in His humiliation and in His glory, Moses equally grandly emblematizes the mediatorial Christ, him...
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...
HE BROUGHT THEM OUT,.... Of Egypt, and delivered them from all their oppressions in it: AFTER THAT HE HAD SHOWN WONDERS AND SIGNS IN THE LAND OF EGYPT; by turning his rod into a serpent, and by his r...
He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years. Ver. 36. _And in the wilderness_] Where their garments wer...
_This Moses, whom they refused_ Namely, forty years before: probably not they, but their fathers did it, and God imputes it to them. So God frequently imputes the sins of parents to those of their chi...
HE BROUGHT THEM OUT AFTER THAT HE HAD SHOWED WONDERS AND SIGNS IN THE LAND OF EGYPT AND IN THE RED SEA AND IN THE WILDERNESS FORTY YEARS. For the sake of characterizing the Jews and emphasizing his po...
Moses the deliverer:...
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...
HE BROUGHT THEM OUT, AFTER HE HAD SHOWN WONDERS AND SIGNS IN THE LAND OF EGYPT, AND IN THE RED SEA, AND IN THE WILDERNESS FORTY YEARS. 1. After the plagues in Egypt, God was able to lead the children...
This man led them forth, having wrought wonders and signs in Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years. 'THIS MAN'-The same man they had rejected. 'HAVING WROUGHT WONDERS AND SIGN...
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...
AFTER THAT HE HAD SHOWED WONDERS AND SIGNS: God could with the least word or motion of his will save his people; but he chooseth so to do his wonderful works, that they may be had in remembrance. IN T...
Acts 7:36 He G3778 brought G1806 them G846 out G1806 (G5627) shown G4160 (G5660) wonders G5059 and...
‘This man led them forth, having wrought wonders and signs in Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.' And this Moses had revealed himself as ruler and deliverer in performing ma...
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...
Acts 7:36. HE BROUGHT THEM OUT, AFTER THAT HE SHOWED WONDERS AND SIGNS. Drawing the noble picture contained in this and the preceding verses of Moses ‘our Rabbi,' as the Jews love to call him, of whom...
_Second Division of the Speech,_ 17-36. _The Age of Moses._ The second part of the defence commences with the long-looked-for approach of the time when ‘the promise,' now centuries old, should be fulf...
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...
MOSES IS THE ONE WHO WAS REJECTED. He comes down hard on this fact! He does this to reach the climax of Acts 7:37....
_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...
_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...
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 7:35 Stephen presents Moses as a type of Christ: both were men whom GOD SENT, both served as a REDEEMER (see Luke 24:21),
_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 2:25; Deuteronomy 4:33; Deuteronomy 6:21; Deuteronomy 6:22;...
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...