Acts 7:53
who received the law by the ministration of angels, and yet have not kept it.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it .
In Context
54And when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart and gnashed their teeth at him.
Cross References
John 7:19Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you observeth the law? wherefore else do ye seek to kill me?
Romans 2:23Thou, that boastest in the law, dost thou by transgression of the law dishonour God?
Galatians 6:13For they, who are circumcised, do not themselves keep the law: but they would have you 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 →