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* And (note :)When Satan has assailed the Church on the outside , and with little result and in vain , he assails it on the inside , with civil dissension and strife between themselves : but the apostles take occasion by this to set order in the Church .(:note ) in those days , when the number of the disciples was multiplied , there arose a murmuring of the From among their own members , who became religious Jews from among the Greeks . Grecians against the Hebrews , because their widows were neglected in the In the bestowing of alms according to their need . daily ministration . * * * And we will giue our selues continually to prayer , and to the ministration of the worde . * And the saying pleased the whole multitude : and they chose Steuen a man full of fayth and of the holy Ghost , and Philippe , and Prochorus , and Nicanor , and Timon , and Parmenas , and Nicolas a Proselyte of Antiochia , * * * * * * Then they suborned men , which saide , We haue heard him speake blasphemous wordes against Moses , and God . * * * For we haue heard him say , that this Iesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place , and shall change the ordinances , which Moses gaue vs . * And all that sat in the council , looking stedfastly on him , (note :)By this it appears that Steven had an excellent and wholesome countenance , having a quiet and settled mind , a good conscience , and certain conviction that his cause was just : for seeing as he was to speak before the people , God beautified his countenance , so that by the very beholding of him the Jews ' minds might be penetrated and amazed .(:note ) saw his face as it had been the face of an angel .

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