ACTS 7:15-60 - Corps Notes - March 23, 1976
ACTS 7:15-60 The Defense and Death of Stephen March 23, 1976 Acts 7:15, 16 Genesis 50:2-5 - “I will come again” is a beautiful orientalism which means “I will hurry back.” “Sychem” is spelled Sychem in Acts but it’s really spelled Shecem in the Old Testament. Acts 7:17 That is sort of interesting. There must have been a time when they did not grow and multiply as rapidly. I believe that there was a lot of knowledge among God’s people that has been lost. How could they control growing or multiplying at one time, then at other times no growing or multiplying. See, when they grew and multiplied that simply means they got pregnant and had children. Why at one time did they have them and at other times they didn’t? I’m real confident they knew a lot more about birth control than most of our modern people know, in an organic, natural way, not the pill. Acts 7:18 “another” - heteros Acts 7:19 “The same” - This one “dealt subtilly with” - to deal wisely, from a sharp, political point of view. See Exodus 1:8-10. Acts 7:20 “exceeding fair” - fair to God. It is an idiom. “nourished up in his father’s house” - lived in his father’s house. “three months” – For him to have gone unnoticed for three months, must have taken a lot of believing on the part of father and mother. They must have practiced Romans where they kept their mouths shut. I doubt if there was a neighbor who knew there was a baby in that house. They just didn’t tell. Acts 7:21 “cast out” - means what they did with him in Genesis. I believe this whole thing was revelation, the whole operation. Why was he just there when Pharaoh’s daughter came along? Why is it that Pharaoh’s daughter had no children of her own? God knew all this and so He just had Moses’ daddy and mommy put him out at the right place at the right time. Pharaoh’s daughter came along and took him up out of the bulrushes and nourished him as her own son. Why didn’t they hide him on the land? Why in the river? Because of what the Egyptians believed reg
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t quite understand it Research Department, what you said on page 26B 16, where you defined it ' to make vocal utterance,' ' to babble,' 'to talk,' 'to exercise the faculty of speech without reference to the words spoken.' I just wondered if there might not be another word that could be substituted or utilized at this point. I know that Zachariah 8:16 is the quotation that is used here, or spoken of. And that Zachariah 8:16 adds force to what is said by using a quote, a quotation. That' s why my question to the Research Department is, How can it be without reference to what is spoken if it is truth plus the quotation of the Word of God that's given. It doesn't quite fit for me. 'With his neighbor' has to be a believing neighbor. This 'speak truth with his neighbor' is a figure of speech gnome , g-n-o-m-e , which simply is a citation. And that' s a citation from Zachariah 8:16. There are a