Acts 7:53
who have received the law as ordained by [the] ministry of angels, and have not kept [it].
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it .
In Context
54And hearing these things they were cut to the heart, and gnashed their teeth against him.
Cross References
Exodus 19:1In the third month after the departure of the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they [into] the wilderness of Sinai:
Psalms 68:17The chariots of God are twenty thousand, thousands upon thousands; the Lord is among them: it is a Sinai in holiness.
John 7:19Has not Moses given you the law, and no one of you practises the law? Why do ye seek to kill me?
Romans 2:23thou who boastest in law, dost thou by transgression of the law dishonour God?
Galatians 6:13For neither do they that are circumcised themselves 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 →