This Moses (Τουτον τον Μωυσην). Rhetorical repetition follows this description of Moses (five times, anaphora, besides the use her…

When they refused. That is, when he first presented himself to them (Exodus 2:13–14). Stephen introduces and dwells u…

The same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer.—Literally, a ruler and redeemer. The word is not found elsewhere in the New …

Is not that a shadow of that grander truth, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?

Still on the subject of “the land,” Stephen recounts the life of Moses. Incorporated into this section, largely by way of anticipation, is a Mosesr…

Stephen passes over many things because he makes haste to this point: that the Jews may understand, first, that the fathers were not delivered beca…

This Moses, whom they refused
That is, the Israelites; the Ethiopic version reads, "his kinsmen denied"; those of hi…

People deceive themselves if they think God cannot do what He sees to be good anywhere; He can bring His people into a wilderness and there speak c…