51Ye 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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Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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 that worship of the Father in spirit and in truth which was to be established in the kingdom of the Messiah, stripped of the pompous ceremonies of the old law, and so he was going to apply all this whi…
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