53Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
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For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
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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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