Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Acts 7:45
With Jesus— With Joshua. The word εθνων, rendered Gentiles, would more properly be rendered heathens in this place.
With Jesus— With Joshua. The word εθνων, rendered Gentiles, would more properly be rendered heathens in this place.
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...
Verse 45. _BROUGHT IN WITH JESUS_] That is, with JOSHUA, whom the Greek version, quoted by St. Stephen, always writes ιησους, JESUS, but which should constantly be written _Joshua_ in such cases as th...
OUR FATHERS THAT CAME AFTER - None of the generation that came out of Egypt were permitted to enter into the and of Canaan except Caleb and Joshua, Numbers 14:22; Numbers 32:11. Hence, it is said that...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
ALSO. This should he read after "brought in". CAME AFTER. received in succession. Greek. _diadechomai._ Only here. Revised Version "in their turn". JESUS. Joshua. Compare Hebrews 4:8. The Hebrew mea...
_Which also our fathers that came after_ Better, _having received it after_. For all the generation that came out of Egypt was dead at the entry into Canaan except Caleb and Joshua. _brought in with...
ἫΝ ΚΑῚ ΕἸΣΉΓΑΓΟΝ ΔΙΑΔΕΞΆΜΕΝΟΙ Κ.Τ.Λ., _which also our fathers having received it after_, &c. All the generation that came out of Egypt was dead at the entry into Canaan except Caleb and Joshua. ΜΕΤᾺ...
Acts 7:1-53. STEPHEN’S DEFENCE...
_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...
ΕΊΣΉΓΑΓΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΕΙΣΆΓΩ (G1521) вносить, ΔΙΑΔΕΞΆΜΕΝΟΙ _aor. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΔΙΑΔΈΧΟΜΑΙ (G1237) принимать от другого, передавать по наследству (RWP; BAGD). ΚΑΤΆΣΧΕΣΙΣ (G2697) владе...
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 44...
Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David; WHICH ALSO OUR FATHERS T...
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...
7:45 possession (c-17) Lit. 'in taking possession of.'...
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...
BROUGHT IN WITH JESUS. — This is, of course, as in Hebrews 4:8, the “Joshua” of the Old Testament. It would, perhaps, have been better, as a general rule, to have reproduced the Hebrew rather than the...
διαδεξάμενοι : having received in their turn, _i.e._, from Moses, only here in N.T., _cf._ 4Ma 4:15; so also in classical Greek, in Dem. and in Polyb., _cf._ διαδοχῆς, “in their turn,” Herod., viii.,...
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...
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...
Which also our fathers that came after (s) brought in with Jesus into the (t) possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out (u) before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David; (s) Delivered...
Jesus, E. V., in this verse, should read Joshua, as in R. V. The solution consists in the fact that Joshua is a Hebrew word, which means Jesus in Greek. The great general reason why Moses could not le...
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....
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...
45._Which they brought in. _This serveth to increase the _frowardness _(461) of the nation, that whereas the tabernacle did continue with them, and they carried the same whithersoever they went, yet c...
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...
WHICH ALSO OUR FATHERS THAT CAME AFTER,.... Who came after those that died in the wilderness, and never saw nor entered into the land of Canaan; the children of that generation whose carcasses fell in...
Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David; Ver. 45. _Brought in_] Thi...
_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...
JESUS; Joshua. Jesus in Greek is the same as Joshua in Hebrew. Joshua 1:1-2; HEBREWS 4:8; JOSHUA 11:23....
WHICH ALSO OUR FATHERS THAT CAME AFTER BROUGHT IN WITH JESUS INTO THE POSSESSION OF THE GENTILES, WHOM GOD DROVE OUT BEFORE THE FACE OF OUR FATHERS, UNTO THE DAYS OF DAVID;...
The Tabernacle and the Temple:...
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...
WHICH OUR FATHERS, HAVING RECEIVED IT IN TURN, ALSO BROUGHT WITH JOSHUA INTO THE LAND POSSESSED BY THE GENTILES, WHOM GOD DROVE OUT BEFORE THE FACE OF OUR FATHERS UNTIL THE DAYS OF DAVID, 1. The KJV s...
Which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered on the possession of the nations, that God thrust out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David; 'BROUGHT...
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...
JESUS, or Joshua, it being the same name, as appears also, HEBREWS 4:8, only Jesus is more according to the Greek use: Joshua was a type of Jesus, and agreed with him in his name, and in the reason of...
Acts 7:45 G2532 which G3739 our G2257 fathers G3962 received G1237 (G5666) brought G1521 (G5627) with...
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...
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...
‘Which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua (Jesus) when they entered on the possession of the nations, whom God thrust out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David,' It...
Acts 7:45. WHICH ALSO OUR FATHERS... BROUGHT IN WITH JOSHUA. Stephen is here rapidly sketching the history of the sacred tent of the Witness, which continued to be the sanctuary not merely in the wild...
_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...
WHICH (ην). Agreeing with σκηνην, not with τυπον.IN THEIR TURN (διαδεξαμενο). First aorist middle participle of διαδεχομα, to receive through another, to receive in sucession or in turn. Late Gre...
JESUS That is, Joshua....
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...
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...
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....
_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...
_To whom our fathers would not obey._ THE SIN OF ISRAEL I. Its manifold nature. 1. Disobedience (Acts 7:39). There is hardly a phase of Jewish history in which this sin does not appear. It was manif...
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...
_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 7:45. 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...
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...
1 Chronicles 16:39; 1 Chronicles 17:27; 1 Chronicles 21:29; 1 Kings 8:4;...
That came after [δ ι α δ ε ξ α μ ε ν ο ι]. Only here in New Testament. The verb originally means to receive from one another, in succession; and that appears to be the more simple and natural renderin...
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...
Which our fathers having received — From their ancestors; brought into the possession of the Gentiles — Into the land which the Gentiles possessed before. So that God's favour is not a necessary conse...