Stephen and Hebrews
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Stephen and Hebrews concerns how Stephen's speech that resulted in his being martyred appears to have been based on the Epistle to the Hebrews, particularly its Chapter 11. Stephen's speech is remarkably quoted in full at Acts 7:1-56
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| And Stephen said: âBrothers and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, and said to him, âGo out from your land and from your kindred and go into the land that I will show you.â Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And after his father died, God removed him from there into this land in which you are now living. Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot's length, but promised to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, though he had no child. And God spoke to this effectâthat his offspring would be sojourners in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and afflict them four hundred years. âBut I will judge the nation that they serve,â said God, âand after that they shall come out and worship me in this place.â And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.[1] | By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God. By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised. Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.[2] |
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