Acts 7:56 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Acts 7:56

Stephen the Martyr

54 ^aWhen they heard these things they were¹ cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

55 But he, ^abeing full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the ^bglory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,

56 and said, “Look! ^aI see the heavens opened and the ^bSon of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one accord;

58 and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And ^athe witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Acts 7:56

I see . . . the Son of man standing, etc.—This is the only time that our Lord is by human lips called THE SON OF MAN after His ascension (Revelation 1:13; Revelation 14:14 are not instances). And why here? Stephen, full of the Holy Ghost, speaking now not of himself at all (Acts 7:55), but entirely by the Spirit, is led to repeat the very words in which Jesus Himself, before this same council, had foretold His glorification (Matthew 26:64), assuring them that that exaltation of the SON OF MAN which they should hereafter witness to their dismay, was already begun and actual [ALFORD].

Acts 7:54-56

When they heard these things they were cut to the heart, etc.—If they could have answered him, how different would have been their temper of mind!

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Daniel 9:27
Mark 16:19
Acts 6:11-14
Romans 8:34
Revelation 4:1

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