Acts 7:38
 Acts 7:38 
King James Version
This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:

American Standard Version
This is he that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel that spake to him in the Mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received living oracles to give unto us:

Young's Literal Translation
'This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the messenger who is speaking to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers who did receive the living oracles to give to us;

Acts 7:38 Additional Translations
Geneva Study Bible

This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:


Scofield Reference Notes

[1] church

Israel in the land is never called a church. In the wilderness Israel was a true church (G. ecclesia = called-out assembly), but in striking contrast with the N.T. ecclesia

See Scofield Note: "Mt 16:18".

Margin angel

See Scofield Note: "Heb 1:4".


People's New Testament

7:38 This is he. Moses.

That was in the church in the wilderness. The congregation of Israel, the typical church. Moses as its mediator.

With the angel. The angel of the Covenant, who communicated the law to Moses in Sinai. See Ac 7:53 Ex 23:20,23.

Lively oracles. The Word of life.

Acts 7:38 Parallel Commentaries
Angel Assembly Church Congregation Desert Ever-Living Fathers Forefathers Hand Lively Messenger Mount Oracles Receive Received Sina Sinai Speaking Talking Together Utterances Waste Wilderness Words
Angel Assembly Church Congregation Desert Ever-Living Fathers Forefathers Hand Lively Messenger Mount Oracles Receive Received Sina Sinai Speaking Talking Together Utterances Waste Wilderness Words
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Exodus 19:17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
Deuteronomy 32:47 For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
Acts 7:53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
Romans 3:2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Hebrews 5:12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
1 Peter 4:11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.