Acts 7:39

to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him from them, and turned back in their hearts unto Egypt,

'TO WHOM'-i.e. to Moses.

'BUT THRUST HIM FROM THEM'-'spurned his authority' (Wey); 'pushed him aside' (Mof)

'TURNED BACK IN THEIR HEARTS'-While not wanting to be slaves again, they did inwardly yearn for various aspects of the Egyptian lifestyle.

Bruce notes, 'What more could the people of God want?--and it was all theirs in the wilderness, far from the promised land and the holy city. But even so, they were not content; they disobeyed Moses...Was Stephen charged with speaking "blasphemous words against Moses"--with propagating doctrines which threatened the abiding validity of "the customs which Moses delivered unto us?" Such. charge came well from the descendants of those who had refused Moses' authority in his very lifetime, from people whose attitude to the greater Prophet than Moses had shown them to be such worthy children of their fathers!' (pp. 152-153)