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Acts 7:51

Acts 7:51
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Who have received the law, by the disposition of angels,.... Who attended the angel that spake to Moses on Mount Sinai, Act 7:38 who is the head of all principality and power, and whom he might make…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Ye stiff-necked - The discourse of Stephen has every appearance of having been interrupted by the clamors and opposition of the Sanhedrin. This verse has no immediate connection with what precedes,…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Ye stiff-necked - Σκληροτραχηλοι. A metaphor taken from untoward oxen, who cannot be broken into the yoke; and whose strong necks cannot be bended to the right or the left.

Uncircumcised in heart and…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Acts 7:51-53

Stephen was going on in his discourse (as it should seem by the thread of it) to show that, as the temple, so the temple-service must come to an end, and it would be the glory of both to give way to…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Ye stiffnecked A charge often brought against the Jews in the Old Testament, cp. Exo 32:9; Exo 33:3, &c., so that it is a very suitable expression when Stephen is declaring that the people of his time…