Acts 7:53
ye who received the law as it was ordained by angels, and kept it not.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it .
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 19:1In the third month after the children of Israel were gone forth 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, even thousands upon thousands; The Lord is among them, [as in] Sinai, in the sanctuary.
John 7:19Did not Moses give you the law, and [yet] none of you doeth the law? Why seek ye to kill me?
Romans 2:23thou who gloriest in the law, through thy transgression of the law dishonorest thou God?
Galatians 6:13For not even they who receive circumcision do themselves keep the law; but they desire to have you 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 →