Acts 7:53 Parallel Translations
NASB: you who received the law as ordained by angels, and yet did not keep it." (NASB ©1995)
GWT: You are the people who received Moses' Teachings, which were put into effect by angels. But you haven't obeyed those teachings."(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
ASV: ye who received the law as it was ordained by angels, and kept it not.
BBE: You, to whom the law was given as it was ordered by angels, and who have not kept it.
DBY: who have received the law as ordained by the ministry of angels, and have not kept it.
ERV: ye who received the law as it was ordained by angels, and kept it not.
WEY: you who received the Law given through angels, and yet have not obeyed it."
WBS: Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
WEB: You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn't keep it!"
YLT: who received the law by arrangement of messengers, and did not keep it.'
Acts 7:53 Cross References
XREF:Deuteronomy 33:2 He said, "The LORD came from Sinai, And dawned on them from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran, And He came from the midst of ten thousand holy ones; At His right hand there was flashing lightning for them.

Acts 7:38 "This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness together with the angel who was speaking to him on Mount Sinai, and who was with our fathers; and he received living oracles to pass on to you.

Galatians 3:19 Why the Law then? It was added because of transgressions, having been ordained through angels by the agency of a mediator, until the seed would come to whom the promise had been made.

Hebrews 2:2 For if the word spoken through angels proved unalterable, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty, (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
GSB: 7:53 Who have received the law by the {y} disposition of angels, and have not kept [it].
(y) By the ministry of angels.
PNT: 7:53 Received the law by the disposition of angels. Through the ministration of angels. See De 29:29.
Have not kept [it]. Pretending to be very scrupulous observers of the law, they were wicked law-breakers.
WES: 7:53 Who have received the law by the administration of angels - God, when he gave the law on Mount Sinai, was attended with thousands of his angels, Gal 3:19; Psa 68:17.
MHC: 7:51-53 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 to the worship of the Father in spirit and in truth; but he perceived they would not bear it. Therefore he broke off, and by the Spirit of wisdom, courage, and power, sharply rebuked his persecutors. When plain arguments and truths provoke the opposers of the gospel, they should be shown their guilt and danger. They, like their fathers, were stubborn and wilful. There is that in our sinful hearts, which always resists the Holy Ghost, a flesh that lusts against the Spirit, and wars against his motions; but in the hearts of God's elect, when the fulness of time comes, this resistance is overcome. The gospel was offered now, not by angels, but from the Holy Ghost; yet they did not embrace it, for they were resolved not to comply with God, either in his law or in his gospel. Their guilt stung them to the heart, and they sought relief in murdering their reprover, instead of sorrow and supplication for mercy.
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