What a scene that is of Stephen before the Sanhedrin! Perfect calm; "heaven opened the history of man, who always resists the Holy Ghost, and trusts in a temple deserted of God; man filled with the Holy Ghost-himself the temple-bearing testimony which they resist. See him, while they are killing him, quietly kneeling down to pray for them, a perfect reflection down here of Jesus, while beholding Him on high. The whole judgment of man turns upon the testimony of this chapter; and his whole position in Christ is there depicted. 314