...But they stopped their ears, as afraid to hear things which they thought blasphemous, and ranufion him with on'e accord, and cast him out of the city, and stoned him to death, calling ufton God,and saying, Lord Jesus (for he now saw him) receive my spirit. In executions...

...first place which occurs to us in the order of the sacred books, is the following. ' ; Acts vii. 59• 'And they stoned Stephen, calling upon (God) and saying, Lord Jesus, receive raj spirit.' Admit. ting that the word GOD, were rightly understood here, it ' could not be proved...

...wid, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. Ver. 57. Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, — Job xxxi. lit. If I did despise the cause of my man-servant, or of my maid-servant, when they contended...

...his body dies. Stephen, the first martyr, expected and prayed for this, ' when his body was dying. " And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."^ And none can doubt that the Redeemer was as ready to grant his petition, as that of the thief. The apostle...

...injunction, ' Be ye therefore merciful, as, xatiiuc, your Father is merciful.' 49.] Acts vii. 59. ' And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus receive my spirit, itvzupa..' I am not certain that our Translators have not done right in supplying the word God, as...

...sleep both of soul and body for almost two thousand years, ie till the resurrection. Acts vii. 59. " And they stoned Stephen calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus receive my spirit." Those who deny a Separate State, suppose that Stephen here commits his spirit, or principle of human...

...should commit his departing soul to him, as to a faithful Creator, his covenant God, and his Saviour. " And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." Something of this sort appears to every convicted sinner upon his conversion; for, while he 'is labouring...

...and committed his spirit, himself, to him, when he was expiring under the hand of his persecutors. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.^ The word God is not in the original, and the words might be with propriety render• Rev. j. 18. v....

...Sun of man standing on the right hand of God. 57 Then they cried with a loud voice, and stopped then ears, and ran upon him with one accord, and cast him out <4 the city and. stoned him : anil the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose...

...Stephen, even from the time he began " disputing with the Libertines and Cyrenians, till the people stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, and cast him out of the city and stoned him." Such disturbers of the peace were all those ringleaders of the sect of the Nazarenes, (commonly called...