Howbeit (αλλ'). By contrast with what Solomon did and David planned. Note emphatic position of "not" (αλλ' ουχ), "But not does the…

However. But why Stephen added this is not very clear. He was charged with speaking against the temple. He had now shown that he had due v…

However, the Most High does not dwell in temples.—The sequel shows the impression these words made on the hearers. Stephe…

Stephen reaches the climax of his antitemple polemic by insisting that “the Most High does not live in houses made by men”—a concept he supports by…

Howbeit the most High dwells not in temples made with
hands
Such a one as Solomon's w…

Stephen upbraids the Jews with the idolatry of their fathers, to which God gave them up as a punishment for their early forsaking him.

It wa…