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97541 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1026.36 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Acts 7:42 ): Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven. He particularly cautioned them not to do it, at their peril, and gave them reasons why …
97542 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1026.37 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Acts 7:42 ): Have you offered to me slain beasts, and sacrifices, by the space of forty years in the wilderness ? No; during all that time sacrifices to God were intermitted …
97543 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1026.38 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Acts 7:43 ): You took up the tabernacle of Moloch. Moloch was the idol of the children of Ammon, to which they barbarously offered their own children in sacrifice …
97544 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1026.39 (Matthew Henry)
… , Acts 7:44-7:50. He was accused for saying that Jesus would destroy this holy place: “And what if I did say so?” (saith Stephen) “the glory of the holy God is not bound up …
97545 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1026.41 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Acts 7:51 ), and would not submit their necks to the sweet and easy yoke of God’s government, nor draw in it, but were like a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke; or they …
97546 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1026.43 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Acts 7:51 ): Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted ? More or less, one time or other, they had a blow at them all. With regard even to those that lived …
97547 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1026.44 (Matthew Henry)
… , Acts 7:53. God wrote to them the great things of his law, after he had first spoken them to them; and yet they were counted by them as a strange or foreign thing, which …
97548 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1026.49 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Acts 7:54 ), dieprionto, the same word that is used Hebrews 11:37; and translated they were sawn asunder. They were put to as much torture in their minds as ever the …
97549 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1026.51 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Acts 7:57 ), to irritate and excite one another, and to drown the noise of the clamours of their own and one another’s consciences; when he said, I see heaven opened …
97550 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1026.54 (Matthew Henry)
… 17:7 ), The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him, to put him to death, and particularly in the case of blasphemy, Leviticus 24:14, 13:9. Thus they were to confirm …
97551 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1026.57 (Matthew Henry)
… , 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 …
97552 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1026.58 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Acts 7:55 ); for he saw, in order to this, the heavens opened, Acts 7:56. Some think his eyes were strengthened, and the sight of them so raised above its natural pitch …
97553 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1026.59 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Acts 7:55 ), the Son of man, so it is Acts 7:56. Jesus, being the Son of man, having taken our nature with him to heaven, and being there clothed with a body, might be seen …
97554 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1026.60 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Acts 7:56 ): Behold, I see the heavens opened. That which was a cordial to him ought to have been a conviction to them, and a caution to them to take heed of proceeding …
97555 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1026.61 (Matthew Henry)
… , Acts 7:59. Though he called upon God, and by that showed himself to be a true-born Israelite, yet they proceeded to stone him, not considering how dangerous it …
97556 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1026.63 (Matthew Henry)
(2.) Here is a prayer for his persecutors, Acts 7:60 .
97557 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1027.7 (Matthew Henry)
3. What was the effect of this persecution: They were all scattered abroad ( Acts 8:1 ), not all the believers, but all the preachers, who were principally struck …
97558 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1027.14 (Matthew Henry)
… 8:7. As far as the gospel prevails, Satan is forced to quit his hold of men and his interest in them, and then those are restored to themselves, and to their right …
97559 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1027.49 (Matthew Henry)
… 53:7, 53:8, 8:32, 8:33 ), part of the seventh and eighth verses; they are set down according to the Septuagint version, which in some things differs from the original …
97560 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1027.50 (Matthew Henry)
… 2:7 ), so they must enquire the gospel, especially that part of the treasure which is hid in the field of the Old Testament, at the mouth of the ministers of Christ …