Acts 7:54

No charge could have been more hateful to such an audience, cf. our Lord's words, John 7:19; see Schürer, Jewish People, vol ii., div. ii., p. 90 ff., E.T. Schürer twice quotes St. Paul's words, pp. 96, 124, ζῆλον Θεοῦ ἔχουσιν ἀλλʼ οὐ κατʼ ἐπίγνωσιν : no words could better characterise the entire tendency of the Judaism of the period. διεπρίοντο, cf. Acts 5:33. ἔβρυχον : not elsewhere in N.T., in LXX, Job 16:10 (9), Psalms 34 (5):16, 36(7):12, cf. 111(12):10; Lamentations 2:16, cf. Plutarch, Pericles, 33 (without ὀδόντας, intransitive). The noun βρύχη is found in the same sense, Ap. Rh., ii., 83, of brute passion, not the despair so often associated with the cognate noun; cf. Matthew 8:12; Matthew 13:42, etc.