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But Solomon built him a house.
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The Problem Wasn't the Building
Commentators like John Calvin clarify that Stephen's critique was not against the temple itself, but against the people's superstitious abuse of it. Solomon himself knew God could not be contained in a building (1 Kings 8:27). The error Stephen condemned was the belief that God was confined to a physical location and could be pleased by mere external ceremonies.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
But Solomon, etc. Built the temple. David was not permitted to do it because he had been a man of war, 1 Chronicles 22:8. Davi…
“But it was Solomon,” Stephen tersely says, “who built the house for him.” This brevity shows something of Stephen’s pejorative attitude toward the…
16th Century
Protestant
Solomon built. Stephen seems to criticize Solomon indirectly in this place, as if Solomon did not consider the nature of God in building t…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But Solomon built him an house .
] Though David was so set upon it, and made such large provisions for it, he was …
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…
