| Acts 7:56
| And they crying out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and with one accord rushed violently upon him.
| Stopped their ears, crying out, blasphemy: and they stoned him to death. He praying for them, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit, in imitation of his Lord and Master, our Saviour Christ. And{ Ver. 56. [Ver. 60.] Obdormivit in Domino, ekoimethe.|} reposed in the Lord. Literally, slept. In most Greek copies, are now wanting, in the Lord; but it is no doubt the sense. (Witham) --- Rushed in violently upon him. This proceeding, without any sentence, or form of law, was altogether irregular; and never used in the better times of the Jewish government. This was called, judgment of zeal, and only allowed in one instance, viz. when any one came to draw the people to idolatry. Afterwards, this kind of proceeding was extended to other crimes. See Deuteronomy 13:6; Numbers 24; Numbers 25; 1 Machabees 11:24; etc.
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