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 {Stiffnecked} (skl(8872)otrach(886c)oi). From skl(8872)os (hard) and
	rach(886c)os, neck, both old words, but this compound only in the
LXX and here alone in the N.T. Critics assume that Stephen was
interrupted at this point because of the sharp tone of the
speech. That may be true, but the natural climax is sufficient
explanation. {Uncircumcised in heart} (aperitm(8874)oi kardiais).
Late adjective common in LXX and here only in the N.T. Verbal of
peritemn(935c), to cut around and a privative. Both of these
epithets are applied to the Jews in the O.T. ( Ex 32:9  33:3,5  34:9  Le 26:41  De 9:6  Jer 6:10 ). Kardiais is locative plural
like (9373)in (ears), but some MSS. have genitive singular
kardias (objective genitive). No epithet could have been more
galling to these Pharisees than to be turned "uncircumcised in
heart" ( Ro 2:29 ). They had only the physical circumcision which
was useless. {Ye always} (humeis aei). Emphatic position of
humeis and "always" looks backward over the history of their
forefathers which Stephen had reviewed. {Resist} (antipiptete).
Old word to fall against, to rush against. Only here in the N.T.,
but used in the O.T. which is here quoted ( Nu 27:14 ). Their
fathers had made "external worship a substitute for spiritual
obedience" (Furneaux). Stephen has shown how God had revealed
himself gradually, the revelation sloping upward to Christ Jesus.
"And as he saw his countrymen repeating the old mistake--clinging
to the present and the material, while God was calling them to
higher spiritual levels--and still, as ever, resisting the Holy
Spirit, treating the Messiah as the patriarchs had treated
Joseph, and the Hebrews Moses--the pity of it overwhelmed him,
and his mingled grief and indignation broke out in words of fire,
such as burned of old on the lips of the prophets" (Furneaux).
Stephen, the accused, is now the accuser, and the situation
becomes intolerable to the Sanhedrin.

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