Origen Against Celsus Book V
For it is related in the Acts of the Apostles regarding the Jews, that "God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to Me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness? Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which you made to worship them."[18]
ACTS 7:42 Instead of “book of the prophets” copG67 reads “Amos the prophet.” (See also the comment on ver. 48.)...
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...
Verse 42. _THEN GOD TURNED, AND GAVE THEM UP_, c.] He left them to themselves, and then they deified and worshipped the sun, moon, planets, and principal stars. _IN THE BOOK OF THE PROPHETS_] As thi...
THEN GOD TURNED - That is, turned away from them; abandoned them to their own desires. THE HOST OF HEAVEN - The stars, or heavenly bodies. The word “host” means “armies.” It is applied to the heavenly...
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...
WORSHIP. Same word as "serve" in Acts 7:7. HOST. army. Greek. _stratia._ Only here and Luke 2:13. HEAVEN. the heaven. See note on Matthew 6:9;...
_Then God turned_ Read, BUT. Cp. Joshua 24:20, "If ye forsake the Lord and serve strange gods, then he will _turn_and do you hurt." _and gave them up to worship_[serve] _the host of heaven_ God had pr...
ἜΣΤΡΕΨΕΝ ΔῈ Ὁ ΘΕΌΣ, _but God turned_, i.e. changed His treatment of the people. Cf. Isaiah 63:10, ‘but they rebelled and vexed His Holy Spirit, therefore He was turned (ἐστράφη) to be their enemy.’ Th...
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...
ΈΣΤΡΕΨΕΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Acts 7:39. ΠΑΡΈΔΩΚΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΑΡΑΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G3860) передавать, ΛΑΤΡΕΎΕΙΝ _praes. act. inf., см._ Acts 7:7, с _dat. Inf._ результата или намерения, ΤΉ ΣΤΡΑΤΙΦ...
THEN GOD TURNED,— See Romans 1:21. Psalms 81:11. There were two sorts of idolatry; namely, the worshipping the true God by idol mediators, and terminating their worship upon false Gods. Israel began w...
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 41...
Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of...
41 Idolatry is, etymologically, the offering of divine service to that which can be perceived by the senses. In this way, all objects of worship, even if they are supposed to be representations of the...
7:42 prophets, (a-23) See Amos 5:25-27 ....
THE BOOK OF THE PROPHETS] The twelve minor prophets formed one roll or book. O ye house, etc.] freely quoted from LXX of Amos 5:25; Amos 5:26. Stephen, following LXX, supposes that the worship of Molo...
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...
THE HOST OF HEAVEN. — The word includes the host or army of the firmament, sun, moon, and stars, as in 2 Chronicles 33:3; 2 Chronicles 33:5; Jeremiah 8:2. The sin of Israel was that it worshipped the...
ἔστρεψε : properly intransitive. Weiss takes it transitively: God turned them from one idol worship to another; but here probably means that God turned away from them, in the sense that He cared no lo...
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...
Then God turned, and (o) gave them up to worship the (p) host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices [by the s...
_And God turned. Turned as it were from them, punishing them, by permitting them to serve the host of heaven, the sun, moon, and stars. (Witham)_...
_“And God turned away and gave them up to worshipping the host of heaven,” i. e_., the sun, moon, and stars. I do not wonder that they worshipped the unparalleled splendor of an Egyptian sky, where cl...
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...
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...
Stephen will here declare that the Jews did never make an end of sinning, but that they wandered farther in their froward errors; so that that first fall of theirs was unto them as it were an entrance...
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...
THEN GOD TURNED,.... Away from them, withdrew his presence, and his favours from them: AND GAVE THEM UP TO WORSHIP THE HOST OF HEAVEN; not angels, but the sun, moon, and stars; for since they liked n...
Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices _by the space of_...
_Then God turned_ Upon this, God, being most righteously provoked, turned away from them in anger, and, as in many other instances, punished one sin by letting them fall into another; and at length ga...
GAVE THEM UP; PSALMS 81:12. IT IS WRITTEN; AMOS 5:25-27. HAVE YE OFFERED TO ME; that is, to me alone. The answer is, No; ye mingled with my worship that of your idols. See note to Amos 5:26....
God's rejection of His people:...
THEN GOD TURNED, AND GAVE THEM UP TO WORSHIP THE HOST OF HEAVEN; AS IT IS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE PROPHETS, 0 YE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, HAVE YE OFFERED TO ME SLAIN BEASTS AND SACRIFICES BY THE SPACE OF F...
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...
THEN GOD TURNED AND GAVE THEM UP TO WORSHIP THE HOST OF HEAVEN, AS IT IS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE PROPHETS: _‘DID YOU OFFER ME SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS AND SACRIFICES_ _DURING FORTY YEARS IN THE WILDERNE...
But God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did ye offer unto me slain beasts and sacrifices Forty years in the wilderness,. house of Is...
42-50 Stephen upbraids the Jews with the idolatry of their fathers, to which God gave them up as a punishment for their early forsaking him. It was no dishonour, but an honour to God, that the tabern...
THEN GOD TURNED, from being as a Father to them, to be a Judge over them, to punish them; whereas formerly he had blessed them. AND GAVE THEM UP; this was indeed to deliver them to Satan; God withhold...
Acts 7:42 Then G1161 God G2316 turned G4762 (G5656) and G2532 gave G3860 them G846 up G3860 ...
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...
‘But God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, “Did you offer to me slain beasts and sacrifices, Forty years in the wilderness, O house...
_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 7:42. THEN GOD TURNED. That is, changed towards them, withdrew from them His favour, laid no check upon their passions and follies (see Acts 14:16); and they, abandoned by their God and left to t...
GAVE THEM UP (παρεδωκεν). First aorist active indicative of παραδιδωμ. This same form occurs three times like clods on a coffin in a grave in Romans 1:24; Romans 1:26; Romans 1:28 where Paul speaks...
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 7:42 Stephen continues his description of Israel’s idolatry during their occupation of the Promised Land, when they worshiped stars and planets (THE HOST OF HEAVEN). To establish thi...
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 7:18. 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...
_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...
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...
2 Kings 17:16; 2 Kings 21:3; 2 Thessalonians 2:10; Amos 5:25; Amos
To worship [λ α τ ρ ε υ ε ι ν]. Rev., more correctly, serve. See on Luke 1:74. The host of heaven. Star - worship, or Sabaeanism, the remnant of the ancient heathenism of Western Asia, which consisted...
God turned — From them in anger; and gave them up — Frequently from the time of the golden calf, to the time of Amos, and afterward. The host of heaven — The stars are called an army or host, because...