Acts 7:49

Acts 7:49

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 ‘Heaven^a 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,

Commentaries:

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What manner of house (Poion oikon). What sort of a house? This interrogative is sometimes scornful as in Acts 4:7; Luke 6:32 ff. (Page). So Stephen shows by Isaiah that Solomon was right that the temple was not meant to "confine" God's presence and that Jesus had rightly shown that God is a spirit and can be worshipped anywhere by any individual of any race or land. It is a tremendous argument for the universality and spirituality of Christianity free from the shackles of Jewish racial and national limitations, but its very strength only angered the Sanhedrin to desperation.

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