Acts 7:38 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Acts 7:38

36 ^aHe brought them out, after he had ^bshown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, ^cand in the Red Sea, ^dand in the wilderness forty years.

Israel Rebels Against God

37 “This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel, ^a‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. ^bHim you shall hear.’

38 ^a“This is he who was in the¹ congregation in the wilderness with ^bthe Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, ^cthe one who received the living ^doracles to give to us,

39 whom our fathers ^awould not obey, but rejected. And in their hearts they turned back to Egypt,

40 ^asaying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods to go before us; as for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’

41 ^aAnd they made a calf in those days, offered sacrifices to the idol, and ^brejoiced in the works of their own hands.

42 Then ^aGod turned and gave them up to worship ^bthe host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets:
^c‘Did you offer Me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness,
O house of Israel?

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Acts 7:38

in the church—the collective body of God's chosen people; hence used to denote the whole body of the faithful under the Gospel, or particular sections of them.

This is he that was in the church in the wilderness, with the angel . . . and with our fathers—alike near to the Angel of the Covenant, from whom he received all the institutions of the ancient economy, and to the people, to whom he faithfully reported the living oracles and among whom he set up the prescribed institutions. By this high testimony to Moses, Stephen rebuts the main charge for which he was on trial.

Acts 7:35-41

This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge, etc.—Here, again, "the stone which the builders refused is made the head of the corner" (Psalms 118:22).

Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Acts 7:38:

Psalms 68:18
Malachi 3:1
John 5:38
Acts 7:30-34
1 Corinthians 16:19
1 Peter 4:11

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