Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Acts: Chapter 7]
Resurrection of Christ and maintaining their freedom to teach and
preach that they had not pushed the world-wide propaganda of the
gospel as Jesus had commanded after they had received the Promise
of the Father. But Stephen had proclaimed the same message of
Christ and was now facing the same fate. Peter's mind had been
enlightened by the Holy Spirit so that he could rightly interpret
Joel and David in the light of Pentecost. "So Stephen read the
history of the Old Testament with new eyes in the light of the
life and death of Jesus" (Furneaux).
7:2 {Brethren and fathers} (\andres adelphoi kai pateres\). The
spectators (brethren) and members of the Sanhedrin (fathers) as
Paul in Ac 22:1. {Hearken} (\akousate\). First aorist
(ingressive) active imperative, Give me your attention now. {The
God of glory} (\Ho theos t•s dox•s\). The God characterized by
glory (genitive case, genus or kind) as seen in the Shekinah, the
visible radiance of God. Jesus is also called "the Glory"=the
Shekinah in Jas 2:1. Cf. Ex 25:22; 40:34; Le 9:6; Heb 9:5. By
these words Stephen refutes the charge of blasphemy against God
in Ac 6:11. {Appeared} (\•phth•\). First aorist passive
indicative of \hora•\. See on ¯Lu 23:43. Before there was temple
or tabernacle and away over in Mesopotamia (Ur of the Chaldees,
Ge 11:31), even before (\prin •\ with the infinitive) he dwelt
in Haran (\Charran\, or Carrae not far from Edessa, where Crassus
met death after his defeat by the Parthians B.C. 53).
7:3 {Which I shall shew thee} (\h•n an soi deix•\). Indefinite
relative clause with \an\ and the aorist active subjunctive (same
form in first person singular as the future active indicative).
Abraham followed on as God led him.
7:4 {When his father was dead} (\meta to apothanein auton\).
\Meta\ with the accusative of the articular infinitive and the
accusative of general reference (\auton\), regular Greek idiom.
In Ge 11:32 it is stated that Terah died at Haran at the age of
205. There are various explanations of the discrepancy, but no
one that seems certain. It is possible (Hackett, Felten) that
Abraham is mentioned first in Ge 11:26 because he became the
most prominent and was really younger than Haran his brother who
died before the first migration who was really sixty years older
than Abraham. According to this view Terah was 130 years old at
the birth of Abraham, leaving Abraham 75 at the death of Terah
(205). {Wherein ye now dwell} (\eis h•n humeis nun katoikeite\).
Note \eis\ in the sense of \en\ as often. Note also emphatic use
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