George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Acts 7:40
Saying to Aaron, make us gods: forcing him, in a manner, to make them the golden calf, while Moses was receiving the law from God. (Witham)
Saying to Aaron, make us gods: forcing him, in a manner, to make them the golden calf, while Moses was receiving the law from God. (Witham)
ACTS 7:3-51 In addition to several direct quotations from the Septuagint, Stephen’s speech consists of a series of allusions to and summaries of Israelitish history. In these phrases drawn from the O...
SAYING UNTO AARON - Exodus 32:1. MAKE US GODS - That is, idols....
CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The Address of Stephen (Acts 7:1)._ 2. The Martyrdom of Stephen (Acts 7:54). This is the largest chapter in this book and concludes the first section. Stephen is the chosen instrumen...
MOSES. Stephen describes the growth of the people, the change of ruler and his oppression, as in Exodus 1. ACTS 7:20. FAIR UNTO GOD (_mg._): from Exodus 2:2; Philo and Josephus speak of the beauty o...
STEPHEN'S DEFENCE (Acts 7:1-7) When Oliver Cromwell was outlining the education he thought necessary for his son Richard, he said, "I would have him know a little history." It was to the lesson of hi...
"It was this man who said to the sons of Israel, 'God will raise up a prophet from among your brothers, like me.' It was this Moses who was in the gathering of the people in the wilderness, with the a...
GODS. App-98. TO GO BEFORE. Greek. _proporeuomai._ Only here and Luke 1:76. WOT. know. App-132. IS BECOME OF. has come (to)....
_saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us_ Lit. _which shall go before us_. The passage is almost word for word the report given in Exodus 32:1....
40 ἘΓΈΝΕΤΟ for γέγονεν with אABC. 40. ΘΕΟῪΣ ΟἻ ΠΡΟΠΟΡΕΎΣΟΝΤΑΙ, _gods which shall go before us_. The verse is almost exactly in the words of the LXX. of Exodus 32:1....
Acts 7:1-53. STEPHEN’S DEFENCE...
_THE JEWISH NATION AND THE LAND OF EGYPT ACTS 7:9-43:_ The patriarchs sold Joseph into Egypt. Envy caused Joseph's brothers to sell him into Egypt as a slave. God was with Joseph and gave him favor wi...
ΠΟΊΗΣΟΝ _aor. imper. act., см._ Acts 7:19. ΠΡΟΠΟΡΕΎΣΟΝΤΑΙ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΠΡΟΠΟΡΕΎΟΜΑΙ (G4313) предшествовать, идти впереди. Иегова предшествовал им в образе облачного столпа, подобно тому...
FOR AS FOR THIS MOSES—WE WOT NOT, &C.— _We know not._ This is the phraseology both of the LXX and of the Hebrew; (Exodus 32:1.) and has been called putting the nominative case absolute; accordingly Da...
c. Stephen's defence. Acts 7:1-53. Acts 7:1 And the high priest said, Are these things so? Acts 7:2 And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken: The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham,...
See notes on verse 38...
Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. SAYING UNTO AARON, MAKE US GODS TO GO BEFORE US....
18 It is probable that the lot of Israel in Egypt was pleasant under the dynasty which was acquainted with Joseph, who made these rulers absolute masters in Egypt, for he got for them all the silver a...
7:40 Aaron, (h-3) See Exodus 32:1 ....
DEFENCE AND MARTYRDOM OF STEPHEN 1-53. Speech of Stephen. There is every reason to believe that this speech was really delivered by St. Stephen, and not composed by St. Luke; for, (1) the speech does...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 7 STEPHEN’S SPEECH, PART 1: ABRAHAM’S *FAITH IN GOD, 7:1-8 V1 The *high priest asked Stephen, ‘Is this true?’ V2 Stephen replied, ‘Listen, brot...
MAKE US GODS. — The speech follows the LXX. and the English version of Exodus 32:4 in giving the plural, but it is probable that the Hebrew, E_lohim,_ was used in its ordinary sense as singular _in_ m...
προπορεύσονται (Exodus 16:3; Numbers 11:4-5), only elsewhere in N.T., in Luke 1:76, with which _cf._ Deuteronomy 31:3. The words in Acts are taken fr
STEPHEN'S DEFENSE: DISOBEDIENCE IN THE WILDERNESS Acts 7:30-46 The angel who appeared in the bush that burned with fire was the angel of God's presence, who saved the Israelites and bare them and car...
The charge against Stephen was that he had spoken against the Temple and the Law. His reply consisted of a masterly review of the history of the nation from the calling of Abraham to the rejection of...
Israel's Rebellion That very deliverer was the one who foresaw the day God would raise up another prophet like him. Moses faithfully worked with those Jews who had been called out of bondage. Through...
IDOLATRY IN THE WILDERNESS 40-43. While Moses tarries forty days on the summit of Sinai, complimented as no other man with the very audience of Jehovah, revealing to him the wonderful truth which he w...
MOSES TYPICAL OF CHRIST 17-40. While Joseph so beautifully and vividly emblematizes King Jesus, both in His humiliation and in His glory, Moses equally grandly emblematizes the mediatorial Christ, him...
And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush. (31) When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he...
First of all we see man in an entirely new place man risen from among the dead and ascending to heaven. The risen ascended man, Christ Jesus, is the new starting-point of the dealings of God. The firs...
40._Make us. _Though the Jews be turned back divers ways, yet Stephen maketh _choice _of one notable example above all the rest, of their filthy and detestable treachery, to wit, when they made themse...
Stephen, [11] as far as we are told, had not known the Lord during His life on earth. Certainly he was not appointed, like the apostles, to be a witness of that life. He was simply the instrument of t...
SAYING UNTO AARON, MAKE US GODS TO GO BEFORE US,.... This is a proof of their disobedience to the law of Moses, and of their rejection of him, and of the inclination of their hearts to the idolatry of...
Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for _as for_ this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. Ver. 40. _Make us gods_] That is, an image, or r...
_Whom our fathers would not obey_ Even after all the proofs of his miraculous powers given in Egypt, and at the Red sea; _but thrust him from them_ Acting a part more stupid and ungrateful than that b...
The disobedience of the Jews:...
SAYING UNTO AARON, MAKE US GODS TO GO BEFORE US; FOR AS FOR THIS MOSES WHICH BROUGHT US OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT WE WOT NOT WHAT IS BECOME OF HIM....
The high priest only asks the question, "Are these things so?" Then God provides room for Stephen to speak without interruption for some time. This stands in striking contrast to the way in which the...
SAYING TO AARON, _‘MAKE US GODS TO GO BEFORE US;_ _AS FOR THIS MOSES WHO BROUGHT US OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT HAS BECOME OF HIM._ ' 1. The desire for idols was learned in Egypt. I...
saying unto Aaron, Make us gods that shall go before us: for as for this Moses, who led us forth out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him. 'GO BEFORE US'-'seems to reflect the paga...
30-41 Men deceive themselves, if they think God cannot do what he sees to be good any where; he can bring his people into a wilderness, and there speak comfortably to them. He appeared to Moses in a...
MAKE US GODS; according to the Egyptians, who held that there were many gods, and divers degrees of gods; they therefore speak in the plural number. THIS MOSES: though they confess the great deliveran...
Acts 7:40 saying G2036 (G5631) Aaron G2 Make G4160 (G5657) us G2254 gods G2316 to G3739 before...
FROM ABRAHAM TO THE PROPHET LIKE MOSES - REPLY TO THE CHARGE OF BLASPHEMY AGAINST GOD AND MOSES (7:2-43). The only way Stephen had of replying to charges of blasphemy when he had no supporting witness...
‘Saying to Aaron, “Make us gods who will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us forth out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what is become of him.” ' Rather than responding to the living o...
_Third Division of Stephens Speech._ Acts 7:37-53. _Moses and the Prophets._ Moses is again the central figure of the history, but now he stands forward as the great deliverer of the people. Stephen h...
Acts 7:40. GODS TO GO BEFORE US. As the glory of Jehovah had done in the pillar of cloud and fire, and had guided them and led them up through the Red Sea, out of the land of Egypt. AS FOR THIS MOSE...
GODS WHICH SHALL GO BEFORE US (θεους ο προπορευσοντα ημων). Exodus 32:1. As guides and protectors, perhaps with some allusion to the pillar of fire and of cloud that had gone before them (Exodus 13...
Acts 6; Acts 7 Stephen. From the history of Stephen we learn: I. That fidelity to truth provokes antagonism; holiness and sin are mutually repellent; love and selfishness are the opposites of each o...
Acts 7:14. Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls. So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers, and were carried over...
CONTENTS: Address of Stephen before the council. Stephen martyred. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Stephen, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Pharaoh, Moses, Pharaoh's daughter, Aaron, Solomon, Sau...
The scope and design of St. Stephen's defence before the council will be better understood, if it be properly analyzed. The rulers construed his defence to import, that the glory of their temple shoul...
BUT OUR ANCESTORS REFUSED TO OBEY HIM. These verses sum up the disobedience of Israel. Stephen shows that the rejection of Jesus has roots deep in their own past. Compare Exodus 16:3; Exodus 17:4; Exo...
_Then said the high priest, Are these things so?_ THE HIGH PRIEST AND HIS QUESTION This functionary was probably Theophilus, son-in-law of Caiaphas. The ex-officio president of the council called for...
_In which time Moses was born._ MOSES, A MAN OF GOD AND A MAN OF THE PEOPLE I. From the people, according to flesh and blood. II. Above the people, according to spirit and character. III. For the...
_To whom our fathers would not obey._ THE SIN OF ISRAEL I. Its manifold nature. 1. Disobedience (Acts 7:39). There is hardly a phase of Jewish history in which this sin does not appear. It was manif...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 7:40 The golden CALF incident illustrates the Israelites’ continuing rejection of Moses’ leadership and their idolatry. ⇐...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 7:1 Stephen’s defense is the longest speech in Acts 1:1. It is a selective summary of OT history that turned the charges on his accusers: _they_ were the ones disobeying God because...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 7:1. The high priest’s question, ARE THESE THINGS SO? analogous to that put to Christ (Matthew 26:62), was equivalent to a modern “Guilty or not guilty?” Acts 7:2. Concerning...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 7:18. ANOTHER KING WHICH KNEW NOT JOSEPH.—This was Aahmes, the first monarch of the eighteenth dynasty, “a prince of great force of character, brave, active, energetic, libera...
EXPOSITION ACTS 7:1 _And the high priest said _for then _said the high priest, _A.V. The high priest spoke as president of the Sanhedrim (see Acts 9:1. Acts 9:1 and...
Let's turn tonight to Acts chapter 7. In the early church when a dispute arose among the Grecians--that is, those Jews of the Grecian culture. They were actually Jews, but they had followed the Grecia...
Exodus 32:1...
Shall go before us. As symbols to be born before them on the march. Compare Nehemiah 9:18....
STEPHEN'S APOLOGY Acts 7:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS After charges against Stephen had been placed, the High Priest with a show of honor, said, "Are these things so?" Stephen then stood forth and made his...
Make us gods to go before us — Back into Egypt. Exodus 32:1....