...as it is indicated by bis secret strivings. The meaning is explained Acts vii. 51. "Ye stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always...resist the Holy Ghost, as your fathers did so do ye." This is the charge preferred against the unbelievers of a nation at two different periods, and expresses...

...dispensation. Nay, he must actually have wrought for their conversion, or St. Stephen could not have said, " Ye do always resist the Holy Ghost : as your Fathers did, so do ye." I would also refer CP to the eleven til chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews, that he may satisfy...

..." from your disobedience are not able to " hear and understand what the law has de" clared to you,) ye do always resist the Holy " Ghost : as your fathers did, so do ye. Which " of the prophets have not your fathers per" secuted ? And they have slain them which " shewed...

...Israel, in every age, have greatly withstood this kind of divine influence. This made the apostle say to them, " Ye stiff-necked, and uncircumcised in heart...resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye." As this is the general character of men, we have that solemn admonition, " Quench not the Spirit."...

...away from his narrative, and, charging home upon the hearts of his hearers, cried, " Ye stiffhecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always...resist the Holy Ghost : as your fathers did, so do ye." And these words, followed as they were by words of thunder accusing them of the betrayal and murder...

...he reproved the persecuting Jews that stoned him to death, said, 'Ye stiff-necked and uncircutnrised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost; As your fathers did, so do ye: Which of the prophets, have not your fathers persecuted ? And they have slain them which shewed before...

...they may behold my glory. John 17. 24. When he is come, he will reprove the world of sin. John 16. 8. Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost. Acts 7. 51. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power. Ps. 110. 3. For God hath not appointed...

...character. Stephen, the martyr, rebuked the Jews of his day, for rejecting the counsel of God. — " Ye do always resist the Holy Ghost ; as your fathers did, so do ye." The resistance here mentioned, was to all the measures contained in the dispensation of Moses, and...

...combustible righteousness of the high priests, it produced this gnashing of teeth. See Acts vii. 51 — 54. "Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holv Ghost: As your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted ?...

...(63 Is. 10.) 25. What did Stephen say of their continuing this sin ;—and how was he supported? * Ye do always resist the Holy Ghost; as your fathers did, so do ye.—He, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God....