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Act 7:2. Ἀδελφοὶ καὶ πατέρες, brethren and fathers) Stephen, being a young man, addresses them according to their different ages.-ὁ Θεὸς τῆς δόξης, the God of glory) The sum of the Divine praise. Glory is the Divinity manifest. This magnificent, appellation implies that Abraham was indebted to GOD for both himself wholly, and his posterity, and the land and all the blessings promised and performed to himself and his posterity, and this without anything on the credit side of the account.-ὤφθη, appeared) as the GOD of glory exhibited Himself to be seen.-τῷ πατρὶ ἡμῶν, to our father) Thence it was that this benefit appertained also to the offspring of Abraham.-πρὶν ἢ, before that) comp. Act 7:4, at the end.