What manner of house (Ποιον οικον). What sort of a house? This interrogative is sometimes scornful as in 4:7; Luke 6:32…

Heaven is my throne. See Barnes on Matthew 5:34.

Earth is my footstool. See Barnes on Matthew 5:35.

Wh…

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…

For when he says, heaven is his seat, and the earth his footstool, it should not be understood as if he had a body or could be divided int…

Heaven is my throne
There is the seat of the divine Majesty; there his glory is most conspicuous; there he keeps his…

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