...standing on the right hand of God, and he cried out, in the words of my text, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God. Thus was holy Stephen almost in heaven before he left the earth. Then his furious enemies, mad with...

...before he was * 1 John iii. 2. finally removed from this world ? St. Stephen beheld the heavens open, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God ; and Saul, in the transaction before us, was permitted to see that Just One, and to hear the words...

...yet more strong and decisive: for when he was " full of the Holy Ghost," he said, " I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God :" upon which his hearers, filled with indignation, stoned him, calling upon God, and saying, " Lord...

...the holy saint and martyr Stephen, was more blessed, when upon his declaring that he saw the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God, his enemies stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, and dragged him out of the city,...

...rejoice in the Lord, when favoured like the protomartyr Stephen, to behold the opening of the heavens, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God : it will, therefore, be our design to point out the foundation of the christian's exultation, or,...

...I now feel prepared to say whether such is the case or not. When Stephen said, " I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God," and when St. John said (Rev. i. 13), " I saw one like unto the Son of Man," they were describing things...

...Jews to betoken God's more immediate presence ; and he saw Jesus standing at the side of it : " and he said, Behold I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God." Again we know it from St Paul, who, as he was journeying to Damascus before his conversion, in the way saw...

...things were at once laid open to his view, as to St. Stephen in his last favoured moments, when he said, " Behold I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God." He then heard, as ihe Jirst of the many voices which afterwards met his ear, the voice of the angel,...

...he who enabled St. Stephen to say, when the stones were falling on him, " Behold, I see heaven open, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God;" he who made the apostles exult in the midst of the greatest tribulations, saying, " Thanks be to God...

...was. St Stephen and Isaiah contradicted not one another, yet spake of the same thing, when the one said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man STANDING at the right hand of God; and the other said, I saw the Lord SITTING upon a throne, high and lifted up. Him whom the prophet...