7:19 The same {i} dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.(i) He devised a subtle plan against our stock, in that he commanded all the males to be cast out. read more
7:20 In which time Moses was born, and was {k} exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father’s house three months:(k) This child was born through God’s merciful goodness and favour, to be of a lovely and fair countenance. read more
7:30 And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an {l} angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.(l) Now, he calls the Son of God an angel, for he is the angel of great counsel, and therefore immediately after he describes him as saying to Moses, "I am the God of thy fathers, etc." read more
7:35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send [to be] a ruler and a deliverer by the {m} hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.(m) By the power. read more
7:37 {4} This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.(4) He acknowledges Moses as the Lawgiver, but in such a way that he proves by his own witness that the Law had respect to a more perfect thing, that is to say, to the prophetical office which accompanied Christ, the head of all Prophets. read more
7:41 And they made a {n} calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.(n) This was the superstition of the Egyptian’s idolatry: for they worshipped Apis, a strange and marvellous looking calf, and made beautiful images of cows. read more
7:42 Then God turned, and {o} gave them up to worship the {p} host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices [by the space of] forty years in the wilderness?(o) Being destitute and void of his Spirit, he gave them up to Satan, and wicked lusts, to worship stars.(p) By "the host of heaven" here he does not mean the angels, but the moon, and sun, and other stars. read more
7:43 Yea, ye {q} took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.(q) You took it upon your shoulders and carried it. read more
7:44 {5} Our fathers had the tabernacle of {r} witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.(5) Moses indeed erected a tabernacle, but that was to call them back to the one whom he had seen on the mountain.(r) That is, of the covenant. read more
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Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Acts 7:1-60
CHAPTER 7 1. The Address of Stephen (Acts 7:1-53 ). 2. The Martyrdom of Stephen (Acts 7:54-60 ). This is the largest chapter in this book and concludes the first section. Stephen is the chosen instrument to deliver the final testimony to the nation. He was not permitted to finish it. We notice at once a marked difference between the previous preaching by the Apostle Peter and the address of Stephen. The testimony of Peter was marked on the day of Pentecost and at the other occasions by... read more