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Acts 7:53 KJV
Acts · chapter 7 · verse 53
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.Acts 7:53 · King James Version
Acts 7:53 in context
51Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
52Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
53Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
54When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
55But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
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Key words (Strong's)
- dispositiondiatagēa disposition, arrangement, ordinanceG1296 →
- receivedlambanōto take, to take with the hand, lay hold of, any person or thing in order to use it, to…G2983 →
- angelsangelosa messenger, envoy, one who is sent, an angel, a messenger from GodG32 →
- lawnomosanything established, anything received by usage, a custom, a law, a command, of any law…G3551 →
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Stephen was going on in his discourse (as it should seem by the thread of it) to show that, as the temple, so the temple-service must come to an end, and it would be the glory of both to give way to that worship of the Father in spirit and in truth which was to be established in the kingdom of the Messiah, stripped of…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 51-53