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Acts 7:52

Acts 7:52

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Did not … persecute for have not … persecuted, A.V.; killed for have slain, A.V.; righteous for just, A.V.; have now become for have been now, A.V.; betrayers for the betrayers, A.V. The close resemblance of Stephen's words to those of our Lord recorded in , ; ; , , , lend some support to the tradition that he was one of the seventy, and had heard the Lord speak them.

But the resemblance may have arisen from the Spirit by which he spake, "the Spirit of Christ which was in" him.

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