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Acts 7:48
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46 awho found favor before God and basked to find a dwelling for the God of Jacob.  
47 aBut Solomon built Him a house.  
48 “However, athe Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says: 
49 ‘Heavena is My throne,
And earth is My footstool.
What house will you build for Me? says the Lord,
Or what is the place of My rest? 
50 Has My hand not amade all these things?’  

Israel Resists the Holy Spirit

51 “You astiff-necked and buncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.  
52 aWhich of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of bthe Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers,  
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Acts 7:48

Howbeit (all). By contrast with what Solomon did and David planned. Note emphatic position of "not" (all oux), "But not does the Most High dwell." The presence of the Most High is not confined in any building, even one so splendid as Solomon's Temple as Solomon himself foresaw and acknowledged in his prayer (I Kings 8:27; II Chronicles 6:18).

In houses made with hands (en xeiropoihtoiv). No word here for "houses" or "temples" in correct text (naoiv temples in Textus Receptus). Literally, "In things made with hands" (xeir, hand, poihtov, verbal adjective of poiew). It occurs in Mark 14:58 of the temple and of the sanctuary of Moab (Isaiah 16:12). It occurs also in Acts 7:24; Hebrews 9:11, Hebrews 9:24; Ephesians 2:11. Common in the old Greek.

The prophet (o profhthv). Isaiah 66:1. Isaiah taught plainly that heaven is God's throne.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 7:48:

Acts 17:24
1 Corinthians 3:16
2 Corinthians 6:16
Colossians 2:11
Hebrews 9:11

 

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