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Didn`t my hand make all these things?`
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God is Bigger Than Any Building
Stephen quotes Isaiah to make a powerful point: the God who created the entire universe cannot be contained within a man-made building. Commentators explain that since God's hand made "all these things," the whole world is His temple. This highlights God's immense, transcendent nature and self-sufficiency; He does not need anything from us.
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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…
16th Century
Protestant
Hath not mine hand? The prophet tells the people in these words that God needs neither gold, nor precious furnishings for the temple, nor …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Has not my hand made all these things ? The heaven, and the earth, and all that is in them; the Arabic version renders it…
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Presbyterian
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…