Wouldest thou kill me? (mh anelein me su qelei). Expecting the answer no, but a thrust direct at Moses, Do you wish to kill me (note me su right toge...
STEPHEN ste'-vn (Stephanos, crown (Acts 6:5-8:12)): 1. His Personal Antecedents 2. His Character and Activity 3. His Teaching 4. His Arraignment b...
As if the face of an angel (wsei proswpon aggelou). Even his enemies saw that, wicked as they were. See Exodus 34:30 for the face of Moses when he ...
Stephen Geree, A. B.?This person was elder brother to Mr. John Geree, another puritan divine; was born in Yorkshire, in the year 1594, and educated in...
Overview - Acts 6 1?The apostles, desirous to have the poor regarded for their bodily sustenance, as also careful themselves to dispense the word of G...
Opened (dihnoigmenou). Perfect passive predicate participle of dianoignumi (cf. Matthew 3:16 ; Luke 3:21 ). The son of man (ton uion tou anqrwpou)....
Will I judge (krinw egw). Future (accent on w) active indicative of krinw and egw (I) expressed is emphatic. In this place (en twi topwi toutwi). Quo...
Defense (An argument made before a court)Of Jeremiah Jeremiah 26:12-16 Of Peter Acts 4:8-13 ; 5:23-29 Of Stephen Acts 7 Of Paul Acts 22 ; 23...
ALEXANDRIANS al-eg-zan'-dri-ans (Alexandreis): Jews of Alexandria, who had, with the Libertines and Cyrenians, a synagogue in Jerusalem. They were am...
Stiffnecked (sklhrotrachloi). From sklhro (hard) and trachlo, neck, both old words, but this compound only in the LXX and here alone in the N.T. Crit...
Was consenting (hn suneudokwn). Periphrastic imperfect of suneudokew, a late double compound (sun, eu, dokew) that well describes Saul's pleasure in ...
Was shed (execunneto). Imperfect passive of ekcunnw (see on Mt 23:35), was being shed. Witness (marturo). And martyr also as in Revelation 2:13 ; R...
Overview - Acts 7 1?Stephen, permitted to answer to the accusation of blasphemy, 2?shows that Abraham worshipped God rightly, and how God chose the f...
Three-score and fifteen souls (en psucai ebdomhkonta pente). Stephen follows the LXX which counts some grandchildren of Joseph and so makes it 75 whe...
Like unto me (w eme). This same passage Peter quoted to the crowd in Solomon's Porch ( Acts 3:22 ). Stephen undoubtedly means to argue that Moses was...
Prochorus [N] [H](leader of the chorus ), one of the seven deacons, being the third of the list, and named next after Stephen and Philip. ( Acts 6:5 ...
BETRAYERS be-tra'-ers (prodotai, betrayers, traitors): Stephen charged the Jews with being betrayers of the Righteous One (Acts 7:52) i.e. as having ...
Acts 22:20 And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed Stephen was a martyr for Christ, both by confession with his mouth, and by the effusion o...
Stopped their ears (sunescon ta wta autwn). Second aorist active of sunecw, to hold together. They held their ears together with their hands and affe...
ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. CHAPTER VII. The Martyrdom of Stephen. SUMMARY.--Stephen Outlines God's Dealings with Abraham. The Christ Promised. Abraham...