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"You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
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Heart Over Ritual
Stephen's accusation of being "uncircumcised in heart" was deeply offensive because it declared their physical circumcision and religious identity void. Commentators explain this highlights a timeless truth: God values a submitted heart and listening ears far more than outward religious ceremonies. True faith is about internal obedience, not just external observance.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
You stiff-necked. Stephen's discourse has every appearance of having been interrupted by the clamors and opposition of the Sanhedrin. This…
Stiffnecked (σκληροτραχηλο). From σκληρος (hard) and τραχηλος, neck, both old words, but this compound only in the LXX and here al…
19th Century
Anglican
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised . . .—The sudden change of tone from calm argument to vehement indignation cannot be tho…
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Stephen’s description of his accusers is loaded with pejorative theological nuances. The phrase “stiff-necked” was fixed in Israel’s memory as God’…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
You stiffnecked Or "hard necked", the same with (Prwe hvq) , which is a character freque…
Stephen was going on, it seems, to show that the temple and the temple service must come to an end, and it would be the glory of both to give way t…
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