Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 7:44

44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed speaking unto Moses that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.

Called also the Tabernacle of the congregation, Exod. 33.7. because about it on all solemn occasions the people assembled. Here 'tis called the Tabernacle of witness, because God here testified, or witnessed his glorious presence; and especially, because in it the Ark of the Covenant, the Law, and the Testimony were kept.

Exod. 25.40. Heb. 8.5. Moses was charged not to vary from the prescript; God being jealous of his own appointments: Now this is the rather spoken of by St. Stephen, that he might prove that the place where God was worshipped in, had varied, and therefore might also now be changed.

Marginal references: Or, Who spake.