ACC ~ Acts 7 v44

THEY HAVE GOD FOR A WITNESS. CHRYSOSTOM: But “there was,” he says, “a tent of witness.” Yes, it was there so that they might have God as witness. This was all. “According to the pattern,” he says, “that was shown to you on the mount.” Thus on the mount was the original. And this, while in the wilderness, was carried about and not fixed in place. He calls it a tent of witness, that is, a witness of the wonders and of the statutes. That is why both it and they had no temple. Again it was he himself, the angel, who gave the type. HOMILIES ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 17.

A TENT OF TESTIMONY. BEDE: Since they were saying that he [Stephen] was acting against the holy place, he showed from this [Old Testament parallel] that the Lord does not place a high value on dressed stone but rather desires the splendor of heavenly souls. From this he wanted them to understand that just as the tent was forsaken when the temple was built, so also they should understand that the temple itself would have to be destroyed when a better dispensation came to take its place, as Jeremiah long before had prophesied saying, “Do not trust in words of falsehood that say, ’This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.” And a little later he says, “I will treat this house in which my name is invoked, and in which you put your trust, just as I treated Shiloh, where my name had its dwelling from the beginning, and I will drive you from my sight.”COMMENTARY ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 7.44.

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