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Acts 7:58. ἔξω τῆς πόλεως: according to the law, Leviticus 24:14, so in Luke 4:29, our Lord is cast out of Nazareth to be stoned.— ἐλιθοβόλουν: as guilty of blasphemy. St. Stephen’s closing remarks were in the eyes of his judges a justification of the charge; imperf. as in Acts 7:59, see note below.
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Acts 7:59-60. And thus they stoned Stephen — Who, during...
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(1.) He, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, Acts 7:55; Acts 7:55. [1.] Thus he looked above the power and fury of his persecutors, and did as it were despise them, and laugh them to scorn, as the daughter of Zion, Isaiah 37:22. They had their eyes fixed upon him, full of malice and cruelty; but he looked up to ...
The present article seeks to understand the statement ‘and the witnesses laid down their cloaks’ in Acts 7:58. This incident does not immediately stand out to the reader as being significant in the context of Acts 7 in any real way, and is often overlooked by commentators.
(Acts 7:35-36) Moses was Israel’s deliverer, despite Israel’s previous rejection. “This Moses whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ is the one God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush.
In Acts 7, we read a lengthy and well prepared sermon by Stephen. One might say Stephen’s sermon was not persuasive enough. It angered the Jewish leadership and lead to his death as the first martyr of Christianity. His name “Stephen” means “crown” in Greek.
David Guzik commentary on Acts 7 describes the martyr death of Stephen who has a glorious vision of Jesus before he is executed by stoning.
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