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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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FULL FORTY YEARS OLD - This is not recorded in the Old Testament; but
it is a constant tradition of the Jews that Moses was 40 years of age
when he undertook to deliver them. Thus, it is said, “Moses...
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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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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...
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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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"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...
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HE WAS, &C. Literally. period (Greek. _chronos)_ of forty years
(Greek. _tessarakontaetes._ Only here and Acts 13:18) was fulfilled.
Greek. _pleroo._ App-125.
INTO. upon. Greek. _epi._ App-104.
VISI...
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_And when he was full forty years old_ Better, _But when he was
well-nigh forty years old_. The verb in the original intimates that
the forty years were just being completed. For the fixing of this ti...
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ὩΣ ΔῈ ἘΠΛΗΡΟΥ͂ΤΟ … ΧΡΌΝΟΣ. Render, _but when
he was well-nigh forty years old_. The verb intimates that the forty
years were just being completed. For the fixing of this time we have
no authority in t...
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Acts 7:1-53. STEPHEN’S DEFENCE...
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_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...
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ΈΠΛΗΡΟΫ́ΤΟ _impf. ind. pass. от_ ΠΛΗΡΌΩ (G4137)
исполнять, завершать,
ΆΝΈΒΗ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΝΑΒΑΊΝΩ (G305)
приходить, подходить. Относится к
вещам, пришедшим кому-л. в голову (AS; SA,
63-64)....
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DISCOURSE: 1756
THE ZEAL OF MOSES
Acts 7:22. _And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians,
and was mighty in words and in deeds. And when he was full forty years
old, it came into his he...
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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 17...
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And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit
his brethren the children of Israel.
AND WHEN HE WAS FULL FORTY YEARS OLD. Here, and in ; , the life of
Moses is represented as...
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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...
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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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FORTY YEARS OLD] His age is derived from tradition....
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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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IT CAME INTO HIS HEART. — The distinct purpose in going out to look
after his brethren is stated somewhat more emphatically than in Exodus
2:11....
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ὡς, _cf._ Acts 1:10, Lucan. The exact age is not mentioned in O.T.,
but it was traditional (Weiss refers its mention to the reviser,
perhaps introduced as a parallel to Acts 7:30). According to the
tr...
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STEPHEN'S DEFENSE: THE DELIVERER FROM BONDAGE
Acts 7:14-29
Moses, we are here told, was “mighty in words;” that is, in
eloquence as well as in deeds. This confirms the statement of the
Jewish histori...
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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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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...
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_“And when the time of the fortieth year was being fulfilled to him,
it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the sons of Israel.”_
Here culminates a crisis, more copiously revealed in Hebrews 11...
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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...
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But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to
Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, (18) Till another
king arose, which knew not Joseph. (19) The same dealt subtlety w...
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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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23._When the time was fulfilled. _Many gather by this that Moses was
never estranged in mind from his nation; but the words of Stephen
incline rather toward the contrary, to wit, that the Spirit of Go...
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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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AND WHEN HE WAS FULL FORTY YEARS OLD,.... This Stephen had from
tradition, and not from Scripture, which is silent about the age of
Moses at this time, and only says, "it came to pass in those days wh...
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And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit
his brethren the children of Israel.
Ver. 23. See Hebrews 11:24. _See Trapp on "_ Heb 11:24 _"_
It came into his heart] _sc._ B...
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_When he was forty years old_ So long he continued in Pharaoh's court;
_it came into his heart_ Probably by an impulse from God; _to visit
his brethren_ He having been instructed, it appears, in the k...
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AND WHEN HE WAS FULL FORTY YEARS OLD, IT CAME INTO HIS HEART TO VISIT
HIS BRETHREN, THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL....
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Moses attempts to deliver his people:...
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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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" NOW WHEN HE WAS FORTY YEARS OLD, IT CAME INTO HIS HEART TO VISIT HIS
BRETHREN, THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.
1. He went to visit his brethren. Here we have an interesting word.
1. To visit does not mean...
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But when he was well-nigh forty years old, it came into his heart to
visit his brethren the children of Israel.
'WELL-NIGH FORTY YEARS OLD'- Exodus 2:11; Hebrews 11:24. We find the
life of Moses divid...
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17-29 Let us not be discouraged at the slowness of the fulfilling of
God's promises. Suffering times often are growing times with the
church. God is preparing for his people's deliverance, when their...
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FORTY YEARS OLD; this age of Moses is not set down in his history, but
they might have it by tradition, which is here confirmed unto us by
the holy penman: these forty years Moses spent in Pharaoh's c...
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Acts 7:23 Now G1161 when G5613 he G846 was G4137 (G5712) years G5063
old G5550 came G305 (G
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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...
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‘But when he was almost forty years old, it came into his heart to
visit his brethren the children of Israel. And seeing one of them
suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed,
s...
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Acts 7:23. AND, WHEN HE WAS FULL FORTY YEARS OLD. The Hebrews lived in
a separate district of their own, and Moses, one of the royal family,
the adopted son of the daughter of the Pharaoh, no doubt du...
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_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...
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WHEN HE WAS WELL-NIGH FORTY YEARS OLD
(Hως επληρουτο αυτω τεσσαρακονταετης
χρονος). A rather awkward Greek idiom for the English: "When a
forty year old time (same idiom in Acts 13:18 and only twice...
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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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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...
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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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WHEN MOSES WAS FORTY YEARS OLD. Exodus 2:11-15. The point Stephen
brings out, is that Israel rejected Moses, just as they did Joseph and
Jesus. Yet they knew how God had chosen both Joseph and Moses t...
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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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_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...
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_And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit
his brethren._
THE PATRIOTISM OF MOSES
I. Long nursed--“forty years.”
1. Inspired by his mother. The precious time during which...
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 7:23 The rejection of Moses’ attempt to
reconcile two quarreling Israelites (Exodus 2:11) illustrates
Israel’s constant rejection of its God-sent leaders (see...
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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 7:18. 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...
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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 29:17; 2 Chronicles 30:12; 2 Corinthians 8:16; Acts
15:36;...
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It came into his heart [α ν ε β η ε π ι τ η ν κ α ρ δ
ι α ν]. Lit., "it arose into his heart." " There may be something
in the depth of the soul which afterward emerges and ascends from that
sea into...
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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...
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It came into his heart — Probably by an impulse from God....