SEV Biblia, Chapter 7:54
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Clarke's Bible Commentary - Acts 7:54
Verse 54. They were cut to the heart] dieprionto, They were sawn through. See the note on chap. v. 33. They gnashed on him with their teeth.] They were determined to hear him no longer; were filled with rage against him, and evidently thirsted for his blood.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 54. When they heard these things , etc.] How that Abraham, the father of them, was called before he was circumcised, or the law was given to Moses, or the temple was built, which they were so bigoted to, and charged with speaking blasphemously of; and how that Joseph and Moses were very ill treated by the Jewish fathers, which seemed to resemble the usage Christ and his apostles met with from them; and how their ancestors behaved in the wilderness when they had received the law, and what idolatry they fell into there, and in after times; and how that though there was a temple built by Solomon, yet the Lord was not confined to it, nor would he dwell in it always; and especially when they heard him calling them a stiffnecked people, and uncircumcised in heart and ears; saying, that they persecuted and slew the prophets, and were the betrayers and murderers of an innocent person; and notwithstanding all their zeal for the law, and even though it was ministered to them by angels, yet they did not observe it themselves: they were cut to the heart ; as if they had been sawn asunder; they were filled with anguish, with great pain and uneasiness; they were full of wrath and madness, and could neither bear themselves nor him: and they gnashed on him with their teeth : being enraged at him, and full of fury and indignation against him.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 54-60 - Nothing is so comfortable to dying saints, or so encouraging to suffering saints, as to see Jesus at the right hand of God: blessed be God, by faith we may see him there. Stephen offered up two shor prayers in his dying moments. Our Lord Jesus is God, to whom we are to seek, and in whom we are to trust and comfort ourselves, living an dying. And if this has been our care while we live, it will be ou comfort when we die. Here is a prayer for his persecutors. Though the sin was very great, yet if they would lay it to their hearts, God woul not lay it to their charge. Stephen died as much in a hurry as ever an man did, yet, when he died, the words used are, he fell asleep; he applied himself to his dying work with as much composure as if he ha been going to sleep. He shall awake again in the morning of the resurrection, to be received into the presence of the Lord, where i fulness of joy, and to share the pleasures that are at his right hand for evermore __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
ακουοντες 191 5723 V-PAP-NPM δε 1161 CONJ ταυτα 5023 D-APN διεπριοντο 1282 5712 V-IPI-3P ταις 3588 T-DPF καρδιαις 2588 N-DPF αυτων 846 P-GPM και 2532 CONJ εβρυχον 1031 5707 V-IAI-3P τους 3588 T-APM οδοντας 3599 N-APM επ 1909 PREP αυτον 846 P-ASM
Vincent's NT Word Studies
54. They were cut. See on ch. v. 33. In both instances, of anger. A different word is used to express remorse, ch. ii. 37.Gnashed (ebrucon). Originally to eat greedily, with a noise, as wild beasts: hence to gnash or grind the teeth.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
7:54 {When they heard} (akouontes). Present active participle of akouw, while hearing. {They were cut to the heart} (dieprionto tais kardiais). See #5:33 where the same word and form (imperfect passive of diapriw) is used of the effect of Peter's speech on the Sadducees. Here Stephen had sent a saw through the hearts of the Pharisees that rasped them to the bone. {They gnashed on him with their teeth} (ebrucon tous odontas ep' auton). Imperfect (inchoative) active of brucw (Attic bruk"), to bite with loud noise, to grind or gnash the teeth. Literally, They began to gnash their teeth at (ep') him (just like a pack of hungry, snarling wolves). Stephen knew that it meant death for him.
