Acts 7:53
you who received the Law as ‘ordinances of angels’ and have not kept it!”
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it .
In Context
Cross References
John 7:19“Did not Moses give you the Law? And yet not one of you keeps the Law! Why do you want to kill me?”
Romans 2:23You who boast in the Law, do you dishonor God through the transgression of the Law?
Galatians 6:13For not even those who are circumcised keep the law themselves, yet they want 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 →