Chapter 6:
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Acts 6
Concise Complete
The appointment of deacons. (1-7) Stephen falsely accused
of blasphemy. (8-15)
Verses 1-7 Hitherto
the disciples had been of one accord; this often had been noticed to their
honour; but now they were multiplied, they began to murmur. The word of God was
enough to take up all the thoughts, cares, and time of the apostles. The persons
chosen to serve tables must be duly qualified. They must be filled with gifts
and graces of the Holy Ghost, necessary to rightly managing this trust; men of
truth, and hating covetousness. All who are employed in the service of the
church, ought to be commended to the Divine grace by the prayers of the church.
They blessed them in the name of the Lord. The word and grace of God are greatly
magnified, when those are wrought upon by it, who were least likely.
Verses 8-15 When
they could not answer Stephen's arguments as a disputant, they prosecuted him as
a criminal, and brought false witnesses against him. And it is next to a miracle
of providence, that no greater number of religious persons have been murdered in
the world, by the way of perjury and pretence of law, when so many thousands
hate them, who make no conscience of false oaths. Wisdom and holiness make a
man's face to shine, yet will not secure men from being treated badly. What
shall we say of man, a rational being, yet attempting to uphold a religious
system by false witness and murder! And this has been done in numberless
instances. But the blame rests not so much upon the understanding, as upon the
heart of a fallen creature, which is deceitful above all things and desperately
wicked. Yet the servant of the Lord, possessing a clear conscience, cheerful
hope, and Divine consolations, may smile in the midst of danger and death.
Chapter 6:
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