Acts 7:53

you who received the Law as transmitted by angels and yet failed to keep it.”

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

In Context

52Which of the prophets escaped persecution at their hands? They killed those who foretold the coming of the righteous one; of whom you, in your turn, have now become the betrayers and murderers –

54As they listened to this, the Council grew frantic with rage, and gnashed their teeth at Stephen.

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Cross References

Psalms 68:17The chariots of God are twice ten thousand: the Lord came from Sinai, his holy place.

John 7:19Was not it Moses who gave you the Law? Yet not one of you obeys it! Why are you seeking to put me to death?”

Romans 2:23Boasting, as you do, of your Law, do you dishonor God by breaking the Law?

Galatians 6:13Even these men who are circumcised do not themselves keep the Law; yet they want you to be circumcised, so that they may boast of your observance of the rite.

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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