Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
DEFENSE AND MARTYRDOM OF STEPHEN. (Acts 7:1-60)
The God of glory—A magnificent appellation, fitted at the very outset to rivet the devout attention of his audience; denoting not that visible glory which attended many of the divine manifestations, but the glory of those manifestations themselves, of which this was regarded by every Jew as the fundamental one. It is the glory of absolutely free grace.
appeared unto our father Abraham before he dwelt in Charran, and said, etc.—Though this first call is not expressly recorded in Genesis, it is clearly implied in Genesis 15:7 and Nehemiah 9:7; and the Jewish writers speak the same language.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Acts 7:2:
Romans 4:25
Ephesians 1:17
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