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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...
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BUT SOLOMON ... - Built the temple. David was not permitted to do it
because he had been a man of war, 1 Chronicles 22:8. He prepared the
principal materials for the temple, but Solomon built it, 1 Ch...
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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...
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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SOLOMON. Stephen does not enlarge upon the history of either David or
Solomon, probably because he saw the gathering storm on the faces of
his audience....
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Acts 7:1-53. STEPHEN’S DEFENCE...
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_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...
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ΟΊΚΟΔΌΜΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΟΊΚΟΔΟΜΈΩ
(G3618) строить,
ΑΎΤΩ _dat. sing. от_ ΑΎΤΌΣ. _Dat._ преимущества
или личной заинтересованности: "для
Него"....
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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...
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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,...
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See notes on verse 44...
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But Solomon built him an house.
BUT SOLOMON BUILT HIM AN HOUSE....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Σολομῶν, see above on Acts 3:11. δὲ : “But” or
“And” δὲ, adversative as in A. and R.V., _cf._ 2 Chronicles
6:7-9, where Solomon is represented as claiming God's promise that he
should build the house...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(6) But Solomon built him an house.
(6) Solomon built a temple according to God's commandment, but not
under any condition that the majesty of God should be enclosed within
it....
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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....
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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...
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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...
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47._Solomon built. _Stephen seemeth to gird Solomon glancingly (463)
in this place, as if he did not regard the nature of God in building
the temple; yet did he attempt that work not without the comma...
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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...
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BUT SOLOMON BUILT HIM AN HOUSE. Though David was so set upon it, and
made such large provisions for it, he was not to be the man that
should build it, he having been greatly concerned in wars, and in...
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But Solomon built him an house.
Ver. 47. _But Solomon built him a house_] A stately house indeed, one
of the seven wonders of the world (how basely soever Florus writeth of
it, out of his deep and de...
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_Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness_ Greek, του
μαρτυριου, _of the testimony._ The two tables of stone, on
which the ten commandments were written, were most properly _the
testimony_, as being...
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BUT SOLOMON BUILT HIM AN HOUSE....
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The Tabernacle and the Temple:...
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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...
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BUT SOLOMON BUILT HIM A HOUSE.
1. As God promised David, his son would build God's house.
2. 480 years after the children of Israel left Egypt, the Temple was
built. (1 Kings 6:1)...
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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...
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1 Kings 6:9 2 Chronicles 3:1,2. AN HOUSE; a fixed and stable
structure, not movable, as the tabernacle was....
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Acts 7:47 But G1161 Solomon G4672 built G3618 (G5656) Him G846 house
G3624
2 Samuel 7:13;...
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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...
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‘But Solomon built him a house.'
But it was Solomon who went about it. And what did he do? He built Him
a house. And yet even Solomon had recognised that God did not dwell in
a House made with hands,...
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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...
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_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...
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Acts 7:47. BUT SOLOMON BUILT HIM AN HOUSE. The argument of Stephen
here may be paraphrased thus: ‘The Temple, against which you accuse
me of having spoken blasphemous words, because I pointed out [as...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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_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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Chronicles 17:1; 1 Kings 5:1; 1 Kings 6:1; 1 Kings 6:37; 1 Kings 6:
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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...