“This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.”
'However, the Most High does not live in houses built by human hands. As it is written in the book of the prophet Isaiah: 'Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me? says the Lord. Or where will my resting place be?' - Stephen quotes Isaiah 66:1-2, the definitive statement: God does not dwell in human-made temples. 'Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool' establishes cosmic transcendence; God cannot be contained in a building. The rhetorical question 'What kind of house will you build for me?' deconstructs the entire temple theology. The 'Most High' (ho Hypsistos) emphasizes God's transcendence beyond institutional religion.
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