...heart, and gnashed upon him with their teeth." But he, " full of the Holy Ghost, looked up etedfastly to heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing...hand of God," and what he saw, he openly confessed. Their patience was exhausted, and they stoned him to death, while he was calling upon his Divine Master,...

...malefactor ? That this was the blessed protomartyr's crime, the conclusion of the account will show. " He looked up steadfastly to heaven, and saw the glory...God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God." He saw the man Jesus in the midst of the Divine light. His declaring what he saw infuriated the Jews...

...of his death, being full of the Holy Ghost, and looking up stedfastly into heaven, while he beheld the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, saw no cross: Paul, the great apostle, who was caught up into the third heaven, where he beheld unutterable...

...,». 53. by St. Stephen, He " being full of the Holy Ghost, looked stedfastly into heaven, and saw the Glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God ;" the object of his sight was surely real ; not a mere vision in the air ; for " he saw the heavens...

...confirm your faith in Him, that looking upwards through faith, you may behold, as it were in a vision, the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. Time to the longest survivor is but a span ; and after death cometh the judgment. Calculate not then...

...degree of human endurance, " looked up stedfastly unto heaven, being full of the Holy Ghost, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God."f Paul, though his bitterest enemy, was favoured by a similar vision, which altered the character...

...delivered his defence be* fore the Sanhedrim, we are told " he looked up •leadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God ; and said, Behold I see the hoavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of (.;•»(."...

...his ascension. Whilst Stephen, the proto-martyr, was suffering, looking steadfastly to heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God; and at the same time declared to the Jews that he saw the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at...

...specimen of the change of which a glorified body is susceptible. Saint Stephen, at his martyrdom, saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. Saint Paul, at his conversion, saw a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round...

...make. However, regardless of their resentment, he fixed his eyes and thoughts upon heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God;p the affirming of which made his adversaries now take it for granted that he was a blasphemer...