Acts 7:53

who have received the law through arrangements of angels, yet have not observed it.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

52Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they killed those who before published the tidings of the coming of that Righteous Person; of whom ye have now been the betrayers and murderers:

54Now when they heard these things, they were cut through their hearts as with a saw, and gnashed upon him with their teeth.

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Cross References

John 7:19Hath not Moses given you the law, yet none of you practises the law? Why do ye seek to kill me?

Romans 2:23thou who gloriest in the law, dishonourest thou God by the transgression of the law?

Galatians 6:13For even they who are themselves circumcised do not keep the law, but desire 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 →

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