Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Ye who (oitinev). The very ones who, quippe qui, often in Acts when the persons are enlarged upon (Acts 8:15; Acts 9:35; Acts 10:41, Acts 10:47).
As it was ordained by angels (eiv diatagav aggelwn). About angels see on Acts 7:38. Diatagh (from diatassw, to arrange, appoint) occurs in late Greek, LXX, inscriptions, papyri, Deissmann, Light from the Ancient East, pp. 89ff., and in N.T. only here and Romans 13:2. At (or as) the appointment of angels (cf. Matthew 10:41; Matthew 12:41 for this use of eiv).
And kept it not (kai ouk efulacate). Like a whipcracker these words cut to the quick. They gloried in possessing the law and openly violated it (Romans 2:23).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 7:53:
Romans 13:2
Hebrews 2:2
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