Acts 7:53
New International Version
you who have received the law that was given through angels but have not obeyed it.”

New Living Translation
You deliberately disobeyed God’s law, even though you received it from the hands of angels.”

English Standard Version
you who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it.”

Berean Standard Bible
you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”

Berean Literal Bible
you who received the Law by the ordination of angels, and have not kept it."

King James Bible
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.

New King James Version
who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it.

New American Standard Bible
you who received the Law as ordained by angels, and yet did not keep it.”

NASB 1995
you who received the law as ordained by angels, and yet did not keep it.”

NASB 1977
you who received the law as ordained by angels, and yet did not keep it.”

Legacy Standard Bible
you who received the Law as ordained by angels, and yet did not observe it.”

Amplified Bible
you who received the law as ordained and delivered to you by angels, and yet you did not obey it!”

Christian Standard Bible
You received the law under the direction of angels and yet have not kept it.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You received the law under the direction of angels and yet have not kept it.”

American Standard Version
ye who received the law as it was ordained by angels, and kept it not.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
You have received The Law by the visitation of Angels and have not kept it.”

Contemporary English Version
Angels gave you God's Law, but you still don't obey it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.

English Revised Version
ye who received the law as it was ordained by angels, and kept it not.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You are the people who received Moses' Teachings, which were put into effect by angels. But you haven't obeyed those teachings."

Good News Translation
You are the ones who received God's law, that was handed down by angels--yet you have not obeyed it!"

International Standard Version
You received the Law as ordained by angels, and yet you haven't obeyed it!"

Literal Standard Version
who received the Law by arrangement of messengers, and did not keep [it].”

Majority Standard Bible
you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”

New American Bible
You received the law as transmitted by angels, but you did not observe it.”

NET Bible
You received the law by decrees given by angels, but you did not obey it."

New Revised Standard Version
You are the ones that received the law as ordained by angels, and yet you have not kept it.”

New Heart English Bible
You received the Law as it was ordained by angels, and did not keep it."

Webster's Bible Translation
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.

Weymouth New Testament
you who received the Law given through angels, and yet have not obeyed it."

World English Bible
You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”

Young's Literal Translation
who received the law by arrangement of messengers, and did not keep it.'

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Context
Stephen's Address to the Sanhedrin
52Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers— 53you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.” 54On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:2
He said: "The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.

Acts 7:38
He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.

Galatians 3:19
Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.

Hebrews 2:2
For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every transgression and disobedience received its just punishment,


Treasury of Scripture

Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.

have received.

Exodus 19:1-20:26
In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai…

Deuteronomy 33:2
And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.

Psalm 68:17
The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.

and have.

Ezekiel 20:18-21
But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols: …

John 7:19
Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?

Romans 2:23-25
Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God? …

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Acts 7
1. Stephen, permitted to answer to the accusation of blasphemy,
2. shows that Abraham worshipped God rightly, and how God chose the fathers,
20. before Moses was born, and before the tabernacle and temple were built;
37. that Moses himself witnessed of Christ;
44. and that all outward ceremonies were ordained to last but for a time;
51. reprehending their rebellion, and murdering of Christ, whom the prophets foretold.
54. Whereupon they stone Stephen to death,
59. who commends his soul to Jesus, and humbly prays for them.














(53) Who have received . . .--More accurately, who received.

By the disposition of angels.--Better, as ordained of angels; or, more literally, as ordinances of angels. The Greek preposition cannot possibly have the meaning of "by." The phrase expressed the current Jewish belief that angels were the intermediate agents through whom Israel received the Law; that it was their voice that was heard on Sinai. Here also St. Paul, in speaking of the Law as "ordained by angels" (Galatians 3:19), reproduced St. Stephen. Comp. also Hebrews 2:2 and Jos. Ant. xv. 4, ? 3, for like statements. The idea rested mainly on the LXX. version of Deuteronomy 33:2, "on His right hand were angels with Him" and "the thousands of angels" as connected with Sinai in Psalm 68:17.

Verse 53. - Ye who received for who have received, A.V. ; as it was ordained by angels for by the disposition of angels, A.V.; kept it not for hove not kept it, A.V. Ordained by angels. This phrase, thus differently rendered (εἰς διαταγὰς ἀγγέλων), is one of extreme difficulty: διαταγή means properly appointment," or "ordinance," as in Romans 13:2; and εἰς, which has a great variety of uses in the Greek of the New Testament, means "at," or "upon," or "on the occasion of," as Matthew 12:41, "At the preaching of Jonah." So here they received the Law "at" or "on the occasion of," the "ordering" or "appointing" of angels. When the angels, who were commissioned by God and spoke in his Name, gave the Law, the Israelites so received it. The A.V., "by the disposition of angels" very nearly ex- presses the true sense. Another sense of εἰς - "in view of" - comes to nearly the same thing. St. Paul speaks of the part taken by the angels in the giving of the Law, and in language strikingly resembling the text. He says of it, that it was "ordained through ['by,' A V] angels" God ordained or appointed the Law, but the angels were the instruments or ministers of its promulgation. And it is also distinctly referred to in Deuteronomy 33:2, where the LXX. read, "On his right hand the angels were with him." In the foregoing verses the application which Stephen had all through been contemplating is hurled with accumulated force at the consciences of his hearers, and cuts them to the heart, but does not bring them to repentance.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
[you] who
οἵτινες (hoitines)
Personal / Relative Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3748: Whosoever, whichsoever, whatsoever.

have received
ἐλάβετε (elabete)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 2983: (a) I receive, get, (b) I take, lay hold of.

the
τὸν (ton)
Article - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

Law
νόμον (nomon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3551: From a primary nemo; law, genitive case, specially, (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively.

ordained
διαταγὰς (diatagas)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's 1296: Ordaining, ordinance, disposition. From diatasso; arrangement, i.e. Institution.

by
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

angels,
ἀγγέλων (angelōn)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 32: From aggello; a messenger; especially an 'angel'; by implication, a pastor.

yet
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

have not kept [it].”
ἐφυλάξατε (ephylaxate)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 5442: Probably from phule through the idea of isolation; to watch, i.e. Be on guard; by implication, to preserve, obey, avoid.


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