cannot believe that they were the only ones who did so; we are rather led to suppose from the whole circumstances that the persecution, which was occasioned by the actions of the Hellenist Stephen, was directed chiefly against the Hellenistic part of the Church, which, with Stephen, had placed itself in open opposition to the existing Temple worship. But the Hebraistic part, which, with the Apostles, adhered to that worship even more closely than before (Luke 24:53; Acts 2:46; 3:1, 11; 4:1; 5:25),