SEV Biblia, Chapter 7:49
El cielo es mi trono, y la tierra es el estrado de mis pies. ¿Qu casa me edificaris?, Dice el Seor; ¿o cul es el lugar de mi reposo?
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 49. Heaven is my throne , etc.] There is the seat of the divine Majesty; there his glory is most conspicuous; there he keeps his court, that is his palace; and there are his attendants, the angels; and from thence are the administrations of his regal power and government, over the whole world: and earth is my footstool ; which is under his feet, is subject to him, and at his dispose, and which he makes use of at his pleasure: these things are not to be literally understood, but are images and figures, representing the majesty, sovereignty, and immensity of God; who is the maker of all things, the governor of the universe, and is above all places, and not to be contained in any: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord ; or where can any be built for him, since he already takes up the heaven and the earth? what house can be built by men, or with hands, that can hold him, or is fit for him to dwell in? or what is the place of my rest ? not in any house made with hands, but in the church among his saints, who are the temples of the living God; and this is his rest for ever, and here will he dwell, because he has chosen and desired them, and built them up for an habitation for himself, ( <19D213> Psalm 132:13,14) Ver. 50. Hath not my hand made all these things ? The heaven, and the earth, and all that is in them; the Arabic version renders it, all these creatures; and therefore what can be made for God? or what house built for him? in Isaiah the words are read without an interrogation, and affirm that his hand had made all these things, and therefore nothing could be made for him suitable to him, by the hands of men.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 42-50 - Stephen upbraids the Jews with the idolatry of their fathers, to whic God gave them up as a punishment for their early forsaking him. It wa no dishonour, but an honour to God, that the tabernacle gave way to the temple; so it is now, that the earthly temple gives way to the spiritual one; and so it will be when, at last, the spiritual shal give way to the eternal one. The whole world is God's temple, in whic he is every where present, and fills it with his glory; what occasio has he then for a temple to manifest himself in? And these things sho his eternal power and Godhead. But as heaven is his throne, and the earth his footstool, so none of our services can profit Him who mad all things. Next to the human nature of Christ, the broken an spiritual heart is his most valued temple.
Greek Textus Receptus
ο 3588 T-NSM ουρανος 3772 N-NSM μοι 3427 P-1DS θρονος 2362 N-NSM η 3588 T-NSF δε 1161 CONJ γη 1093 N-NSF υποποδιον 5286 N-NSN των 3588 T-GPM ποδων 4228 N-GPM μου 3450 P-1GS ποιον 4169 I-ASM οικον 3624 N-ASM οικοδομησετε 3618 5692 V-FAI-2P μοι 3427 P-1DS λεγει 3004 5719 V-PAI-3S κυριος 2962 N-NSM η 2228 PRT τις 5101 I-NSM τοπος 5117 N-NSM της 3588 T-GSF καταπαυσεως 2663 N-GSF μου 3450 P-1GS
Vincent's NT Word Studies
49. What house. Rev., more correctly, "what manner of house" (poion).
Robertson's NT Word Studies
7:49 {What manner of house} (poion oikon). What sort of a house? this interrogative is sometimes scornful as in #4:7; Lu 6:32ff. (Page). So Stephen shows by Isaiah that Solomon was right that the temple was not meant to "confine" God's presence and that Jesus had rightly shown that God is a spirit and can be worshipped anywhere by any individual of any race or land. It is a tremendous argument for the universality and spirituality of Christianity free from the shackles of Jewish racial and national limitations, but its very strength only angered the Sanhedrin to desperation.
