Acts 7:53
"you who received the law, given through angels, and obeyed it not."
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it .
In Context
54As they heard these words they became furious and gnashed their teeth at him.
Cross References
John 7:19"Did not Moses give you the Law? Yet none of you is keeping the Law. Why are you seeking to kill me?"
Romans 2:23You who are making your boast in the Law, do you habitually dishonor God through your transgressions of the Law?
Galatians 6:13Even those who are being circumcised, are not themselves keeping the Law, but they want you to be circumcised so 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 →