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Kisah Para Rasul 6:10

tetapi mereka tidak sanggup melawan hikmatnya dan Roh yang mendorong dia berbicara.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Government;   Greece;   Intolerance, Religious;   Jerusalem;   Persecution;   Power;   Stephen;   Wisdom;   Zeal, Religious;   Thompson Chain Reference - Disciples;   Stephen;   Wisdom;   Wisdom-Folly;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Power of the Holy Spirit, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Deacon;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Holy spirit;   Mission;   Stephen;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Deacon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Grecians;   Helps;   Nicanor;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Stephen;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Church Government;   Mark, Gospel According to;   Nicolas;   Stephen;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Church Government;   Holy Spirit (2);   Preaching;   Stephen;   Winter ;   Wisdom of Christ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Stephen;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ste'phen,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Deacon;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Church Government;   Deacon;   Ministry;   Papyrus;   Stephen;   Text and Manuscripts of the New Testament;  

Parallel Translations

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Contextual Overview

8 And Steuen full of fayth & power, dyd great wonders & miracles among the people. 9 Then there arose certaine of the synagogue, which is called [the synagogue] of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and of Alexandria, and of Cilicia, & of Asia, disputyng with Steuen. 10 And they coulde not resiste the wisedome and the spirite by the whiche he spake. 11 Then they priuilie prepared men, whiche sayde, we haue heard him speake blasphemous wordes agaynst Moyses, and agaynst God. 12 And they moued the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came vppon hym, and caught him, and brought him to the counsell. 13 And brought foorth false witnesses, which sayde: This man ceasseth not to speake blasphemous wordes agaynste this holy place and the lawe. 14 For we hearde hym say, that this Iesus of Nazareth shal destroy this place, & shall chaunge the ordinaunces which Moyses gaue vs: 15 And all that sate in the counsell, loking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had ben the face of an angell.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

able: Acts 5:39, Acts 7:51, Exodus 4:12, Isaiah 54:17, Jeremiah 1:18, Jeremiah 1:19, Jeremiah 15:20, Ezekiel 3:27, Matthew 10:19, Matthew 10:20, Luke 12:11, Luke 12:12, Luke 21:15, John 7:46

the spirit: Job 32:8, Job 32:18, Micah 3:8, Luke 1:17, 1 Corinthians 2:4

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 24:16 - Is this Daniel 1:17 - God Matthew 7:29 - having Matthew 22:22 - they marvelled Mark 1:22 - they were Mark 13:11 - take Luke 4:22 - the gracious Luke 14:6 - General Acts 4:16 - and we Acts 6:5 - Stephen Acts 6:8 - full Acts 7:55 - full Acts 9:22 - confounded Acts 9:29 - disputed Acts 13:12 - being Acts 13:45 - spake 1 Corinthians 1:27 - General Ephesians 1:17 - the spirit 1 Thessalonians 2:2 - much

Cross-References

Genesis 5:32
Noah was fiue hundreth yere olde, & Noah begate Sem, Ham, & Iapheth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they were not able to resist the wisdom,.... In Beza's most ancient copy, and in another manuscript it is added, "which was in him"; that divine wisdom, which the Spirit of wisdom gave him; they were not a match for him with respect to the knowledge of divine things; they could not answer the wise arguments he made use of, fetched out of the Scriptures of truth, in which he was well versed, and had a large knowledge of:

and the Spirit by which he spake; that is, the Holy Spirit, as the above exemplars of Beza, and the Ethiopic version read; the meaning is, they could not resist the Holy Spirit, by which Stephen spake, so as to overcome him, or put Stephen to silence, or confute him; otherwise they did resist him, or oppose themselves to him, but in vain, and without success; for they always resisted the Holy Ghost in Christ and in his apostles, as their fathers before them resisted him in the prophets, as Stephen observes to them, Acts 7:51 hereby was fulfilled what our Lord promised to his disciples, Matthew 10:19.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To resist - That is, they were not able to “answer” his arguments.

The wisdom - This properly refers to his knowledge of the Scriptures; his skill in what “the Jews” esteemed to be wisdom - acquaintance with their sacred writings, opinions, etc.

And the spirit - This has been commonly understood of the Holy Spirit, by which he was aided; but it rather means the “energy, power,” or “ardor” of Stephen. He “evinced” a spirit of zeal and sincerity which they could not withstand; which served, more than mere argument could have done, to convince them that he was right. The evidence of sincerity, honesty, and zeal in a public speaker will often go further to convince the great mass of mankind, than the most able argument if delivered in a cold and indifferent manner.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 6:10. They there not able to resist the wisdom, c.] He was wise, well exercised and experienced, in Divine things and, as appears by his defence, in the following chapter, well versed in the Jewish history. The spirit by which he spake was the Holy Spirit, and its power was irresistible. They were obliged either to yield to its teachings, or were confounded by its truth. Several MSS. add to this verse, because he reproved them with boldness, they could not resist the truth. This reading is not genuine, though it exists (but in different forms) in some good MSS.


 
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