Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
cast him out of the city—according to Leviticus 24:14; Numbers 15:35; I Kings 21:13; and see Hebrews 13:12.
and stoned—"proceeded to stone" him. The actual stoning is recorded in Acts 7:59.
and the witnesses—whose hands were to be first upon the criminal (Deuteronomy 17:7).
laid down their clothes—their loose outer garments, to have them taken charge of.
at a young man's feet whose name was Saul—How thrilling is this our first introduction to one to whom Christianity—whether as developed in the New Testament or as established in the world—owes more perhaps than to all the other apostles together! Here he is, having perhaps already a seat in the Sanhedrim, some thirty years of age, in the thick of this tumultuous murder of a distinguished witness for Christ, not only "consenting unto his death" (Acts 8:1), but doing his own part of the dark deed.
Then they cried out . . . and ran upon him with one accord—To men of their mould and in their temper, Stephen's last seraphic words could but bring matters to extremities, though that only revealed the diabolical spirit which they breathed.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Acts 7:58:
Leviticus 20:2
Leviticus 24:23
Deuteronomy 13:9
1 Kings 21:13
Daniel 9:27
Acts 6:9-10
Acts 14:19
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