Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
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Gill's Exposition
But he being full of the Holy Ghost,.... That is, Stephen, as Beza's ancient copy, and some others express it; and so the Ethiopic version; the Syriac version reads, "full of faith, and of the Holy…
Barnes' Notes
Who have received the law - The Law of Moses, given on Mount Sinai. By the disposition of angels - There has been much diversity of opinion in regard to this phrase, εἰς διαταγὰς ἀγγέλων eis…
Adam Clarke
By the disposition of angels - Εις διαταγας αγγελων. After all that has been said on this difficult passage, perhaps the simple meaning is, that there were ranks, διαταγαι, of angels attending on the…
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…
Cambridge Bible
who have received Better, ye who receivedthe Law from Sinai.
by the disposition of angels Better, at the ministration of angels. St Paul (Gal 3:19) has the same expression concerning the Law, that it…
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