SEV Biblia, Chapter 7:59
Y apedrearon a Esteban, invocando l y diciendo: Seor Jesus, recibe mi espíritu.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Acts 7:59
Verse 59. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God] The word God is not found in any MS. or version, nor in any of the primitive fathers except Chrysostom. It is not genuine, and should not be inserted here: the whole sentence literally reads thus: And they stoned Stephen, invoking and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit! Here is a most manifest proof that prayer is offered to Jesus Christ; and that in the most solemn circumstances in which it could be offered, viz., when a man was breathing his last. This is, properly speaking, one of the highest acts of worship which can be offered to God; and, if Stephen had not conceived Jesus Christ to be GOD, could he have committed his soul into his hands? We may farther observe that this place affords a full proof of the immateriality of the soul; for he could not have commended his spirit to Christ, had he believed that he had no spirit, or, in other words, that his body and soul were one and the same thing. Allowing this most eminent saint to have had a correct notion of theology, and that, being full of the Holy Ghost, as he was at this time, he could make no mistake in matters of such vast weight and importance, then these two points are satisfactorily stated in this verse: 1. That Jesus Christ is GOD; for Stephen died praying to him. 2. That the soul is immaterial; for Stephen, in dying, commends his departing spirit into the hand of Christ.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 59. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God , etc.] As he was praying, and putting up the following petition; and saying, Lord Jesus receive my Spirit ; from whence we learn, that the spirit or soul of man sleeps not, nor dies with the body, but remains after death; that Jesus Christ is a fit person to commit and commend the care of the soul unto immediately upon its separation; and that he must be truly and properly God; not only because he is equal to such a charge, which none but God is, but because divine worship and adoration are here given him. This is so glaring a proof of prayer being made unto him, that some Socinians, perceiving the force of it, would read the word Jesus in the genitive case, thus; Lord of Jesus receive my Spirit: as if the prayer was made to the Father of Christ, when it is Jesus he saw standing at the right hand of God, whom he invokes, and who is so frequently called Lord Jesus; whereas the Father is never called the Lord of Jesus; and besides, these words are used in like manner in the vocative case, in ( Revelation 22:20) to which may be added, that the Syriac version reads, our Lord Jesus; and the Ethiopic version, my Lord Jesus.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 54-60 - Nothing is so comfortable to dying saints, or so encouraging to suffering saints, as to see Jesus at the right hand of God: blessed be God, by faith we may see him there. Stephen offered up two shor prayers in his dying moments. Our Lord Jesus is God, to whom we are to seek, and in whom we are to trust and comfort ourselves, living an dying. And if this has been our care while we live, it will be ou comfort when we die. Here is a prayer for his persecutors. Though the sin was very great, yet if they would lay it to their hearts, God woul not lay it to their charge. Stephen died as much in a hurry as ever an man did, yet, when he died, the words used are, he fell asleep; he applied himself to his dying work with as much composure as if he ha been going to sleep. He shall awake again in the morning of the resurrection, to be received into the presence of the Lord, where i fulness of joy, and to share the pleasures that are at his right hand for evermore __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
και 2532 CONJ ελιθοβολουν 3036 5707 V-IAI-3P τον 3588 T-ASM στεφανον 4736 N-ASM επικαλουμενον 1941 5734 V-PMP-ASM και 2532 CONJ λεγοντα 3004 5723 V-PAP-ASM κυριε 2962 N-VSM ιησου 2424 N-VSM δεξαι 1209 5663 V-ADM-2S το 3588 T-ASN πνευμα 4151 N-ASN μου 3450 P-1GS
Vincent's NT Word Studies
59. Calling upon God. God is not in the Greek. From the vision just described, and from the prayer which follows, it is evident that Jesus is meant. So Rev., the Lord.Jesus. An unquestionable prayer to Christ.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
7:59 {They stoned} (eliqoboloun). Same verb and tense repeated, they kept on stoning, they kept it up as he was calling upon the Lord Jesus and making direct prayer to him as "Lord Jesus" (kurie iesou). {Receive my spirit} (dexai to pneuma mou). Aorist middle imperative, urgency, receive it now. Many have followed Stephen into death with these words upon their dying liy. See, #9:14,21; 22:16.
