Acts 7:38

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:

In the church

Exodus 19:3

Exodus 20:19

Numbers 16:3

With the

Lively

General references

Exodus 20:1

Mark 11:28

Bible References

In the church

Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob and tell the sons of Israel:

Then they said to Moses, “Speak to us yourself and we will listen; but let not God speak to us, or we will die.”

They assembled together against Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “

You have gone far enough, for all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is in their midst; so why do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord?”

With the

“After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn bush.

In all their affliction

He was afflicted,

And the angel of His presence saved them;
In His love and in His mercy He redeemed them,
And He lifted them and carried them all the days of old.

Why the Law then? It was added because of transgressions, having been ordained through angels by the agency of a mediator, until the seed would come to whom the promise had been made.

For if the word spoken through angels proved unalterable, and every transgression and disobedience received a just

penalty,

Lively

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants,

he said to them, “Take to your heart all the words with which I am warning you today, which you shall command your sons to observe carefully, even all the words of this law.

For He established a testimony in Jacob
And appointed a law in Israel,
Which He commanded our fathers
That they should

teach them to their children,

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

Great in every respect. First of all, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

who are Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons, and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Law and the temple service and the promises,

But the righteousness based on faith speaks as follows: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down),

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the

elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.

Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving

by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

General references

Then God spoke all these words, saying,

and began saying to Him, “By what authority are You doing these things, or who gave You this authority to do these things?”