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…

Hath not mine hand? The prophet tells the people in these words that God needs neither gold, nor precious furnishings for the temple, nor …

Has not my hand made all these things ? The heaven, and the earth, and all that is in them; the Arabic version renders it…

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

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