Acts 7:51

Stiff - necked; unwilling to bow to the authority or regard the voice of God.

Resist the Holy Ghost; by refusing to follow his directions.

As your fathers did, so do ye; he comes now to the application of his narrative, in which he has made prominent the disobedience of the people to Moses, and their attachment to idolatry in the wilderness, verses Acts 7:35; Acts 7:39-43; as much as to say, As your fathers treated Moses, so do you treat that Prophet like unto Moses, of whom he prophesied. The manner in which the Holy Ghost and those who have been under his influence have in all ages been treated, shows a deep-rooted enmity in the human heart against God. Hence the necessity taught by Jesus Christ in John 3:3, and the duty inculcated in Job 22:21, Ezekiel 18:31; Acts 3:19; 2 Corinthians 5:20.