Acts 7:53
Who, indeed, received the law through ranks of messengers,—and guarded it not.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it .
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 19:1In the third month, by the coming forth of the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt, on this day, came they into the desert of Sinai:
Psalms 68:17The chariots of God, are two myriads—thousands repeated, My Lord, is among them Sinai, is in the sanctuary!
John 7:19Did not, Moses, give you the law? And yet, not one of you, doeth the law!—Why, seek ye, to slay, me?
Romans 2:23That in law dost boast, Through the transgression of the law, art thou dishonouring God?
Galatians 6:13For, not even they who are getting circumcised, are, themselves, observing law,—but are wishing you to be circumcised, that, in your flesh, they may boast themselves.
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 →