Acts 7:53
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it .
In Context
54Now hearing these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed with their teeth at him.
Cross References
Exodus 19:1In the third month of the departure of Israel out of the land of Egypt, on this day they came into the wilderness of Sinai:
Psalms 68:17Why suspect, ye curdled mountains? A mountain in which God is well pleased to dwell: for there the Lord shall dwell unto the end.
John 7:19Did Moses not give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law?
Romans 2:23Thou that makest thy boast of the law, by transgression of the law dishonourest God.
Galatians 6:13For neither they themselves who are circumcised, keep the law; but they will have you to be circumcised, that they may glory 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 →