Acts 7:53

who received the law by the appointment of angels, and have not kepi, it.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it .

In Context

52Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? They slew also those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers;

54When they heard these things, they were enraged in their hearts, and gnashed upon him with their teeth.

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Cross References

John 7:19Did not Moses give you the law? and not one of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?

Romans 2:23You who make your boast in the law, do you, by transgressing the law, dishonor God?

Galatians 6:13For not even do those very men, who are circumcised, keep the law: but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

Matthew Henry on Acts 7:52-54

Stephen's Address. 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. 52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: 53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it. Stephen was going on in his discourse (as it should seem by the thread of it) to show that, as the temple,… Read the whole commentary →

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