Atti 6:10

10 E non potevano resistere alla sapienza, ed allo Spirito, per lo quale egli parlava.

Atti 6:10 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 6:10

And they were not able to resist the wisdom
In Beza's most ancient copy, and in another manuscript it is added, "which was in him"; that divine wisdom, which the Spirit of wisdom gave him; they were not a match for him with respect to the knowledge of divine things; they could not answer the wise arguments he made use of, fetched out of the Scriptures of truth, in which he was well versed, and had a large knowledge of:

and the Spirit by which he spake;
that is, the Holy Spirit, as the above exemplars of Beza, and the Ethiopic version read; the meaning is, they could not resist the Holy Spirit, by which Stephen spake, so as to overcome him, or put Stephen to silence, or confute him; otherwise they did resist him, or oppose themselves to him, but in vain, and without success; for they always resisted the Holy Ghost in Christ and in his apostles, as their fathers before them resisted him in the prophets, as Stephen observes to them, ( Acts 7:51 ) hereby was fulfilled what our Lord promised to his disciples, ( Matthew 10:19 Matthew 10:20 ) ( Luke 21:15 ) .

Atti 6:10 In-Context

8 OR Stefano, pieno di fede, e di potenza, faceva gran prodigi, e segni, fra il popolo.

9 Ed alcuni di que’ della sinagoga, detta de’ Liberti, e de’ Cirenei, e degli Alessandrini, e di que’ di Cilicia, e d’Asia, si levarono, disputando con Stefano.

10 E non potevano resistere alla sapienza, ed allo Spirito, per lo quale egli parlava.

11 Allora suscitarono degli uomini che dicessero: Noi l’abbiamo udito tener ragionamenti di bestemmia, contro a Mosè, e contro a Dio.

12 E commossero il popolo, e gli anziani, e gli Scribi; e venutigli addosso, lo rapirono, e lo menarono al concistoro.