Acts 7:53

And ye have received the law by the ordination of angels, and have not kept it.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

52For, which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute and kill, even them, who foretold the coming of the Just One, whom ye delivered up and slew?

54And when they heard these things, they were filled with rage in their souls; and they gnashed their teeth against him.

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Cross References

John 7:19Did not Moses give you the law? Yet no one of you observeth the law.

Romans 2:23And thou who gloriest in the law, dost thou, by acting contrary to the law, insult God himself?

Galatians 6:13For not even they themselves, who are circumcised, keep the law: but they wish you to become 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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