Kisah Para Rasul 2:35

2:35 until I make your enemies a footstool ¹  for your feet.”’ ² 

Kisah Para Rasul 7:49

7:49 ‘Heaven is my throne,

and earth is the footstool for my feet.

What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord,

or what is my resting place? ³ 

Kisah Para Rasul 7:48

7:48 Yet the Most High ⁴  does not live in houses made by human hands, ⁵  as the prophet says,

[2:35]  ¹ sn The metaphor make your enemies a footstool portrays the complete subjugation of the enemies.

[2:35]  ² sn A quotation from Ps 110:1, one of the most often-cited OT passages in the NT, pointing to the exaltation of Jesus.

[7:49]  ³ sn What kind…resting place? The rhetorical questions suggest mere human beings cannot build a house to contain God.

[7:48]  ⁴ sn The title the Most High points to God’s majesty (Heb 7:1; Luke 1:32, 35; Acts 16:7).

[7:48]  ⁵ sn The phrase made by human hands is negative in the NT: Mark 14:58; Acts 17:24; Eph 2:11; Heb 9:11, 24. It suggests “man-made” or “impermanent.” The rebuke is like parts of the Hebrew scripture where the rebuke is not of the temple, but for making too much of it (1 Kgs 8:27; Isa 57:15; 1 Chr 6:8; Jer 7:1-34).