50Hath not my hand made all these things?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. …
And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:
I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. …
Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 42-50)Two things we have in these verses:— I. Stephen upbraids them with the idolatry of their fathers, which God gave them up to, as a punishment for their early forsaking him in worshipping the golden calf; and this was the saddest punishment of all for that sin, as it was of the idolatry of the Gentile world that God gave them up to a reprobate mind . When Israel was joined to idols , joined to the g…
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