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Acts 7:38 KJV
Acts · chapter 7 · verse 38
This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:Acts 7:38 · King James Version
Acts 7:38 in context
36He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
37This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.
38This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
39To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
40Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- wildernesserēmossolitary, lonely, desolate, uninhabited, used of places, a desert, wilderness, deserted…G2048 →
- receiveddechomaito take with the hand, to take hold of, take up, to take up, receive, used of a place…G1209 →
- fatherspatērgenerator or male ancestor, either the nearest ancestor father of the corporeal nature…G3962 →
- oracleslogiona brief utterance, a divine oracle , in the NT, the words or utterances of God, of the…G3051 →
- churchekklēsiaa gathering of citizens called out from their homes into some public place, an assembly…G1577 →
- livelyzaōto live, breathe, be among the living , to enjoy real life, to have true life and worthy…G2198 →
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Stephen here proceeds in his story of Moses; and let any one judge whether these are the words of one that was a blasphemer of Moses or no; nothing could be spoken more honourably of him. Here is, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 30-41