7:1
dixit autem princeps sacerdotum si haec ita se habent

7:2
qui ait viri fratres et patres audite Deus gloriae apparuitpatri nostro Abraham cum esset in Mesopotamiam priusquammoraretur in Charram

7:3
et dixit ad illum exi de terra tua et de cognatione tua etveni in terram quam tibi monstravero

7:4
tunc exiit de terra Chaldeorum et habitavit in Charram etinde postquam mortuus est pater eius transtulit illum in terramistam in qua nunc vos habitatis

7:5
et non dedit illi hereditatem in ea nec passum pedis etrepromisit dare illi eam in possessionem et semini eius postipsum cum non haberet filium

7:6
locutus est autem Deus quia erit semen eius accola in terraaliena et servituti eos subicient et male tractabunt eos annisquadringentis

7:7
et gentem cui servierint iudicabo ego dixit Deus et posthaec exibunt et deservient mihi in loco isto

7:8
et dedit illi testamentum circumcisionis et sic genuit Isaacet circumcidit eum die octava et Isaac Iacob et Iacob duodecimpatriarchas

7:9
et patriarchae aemulantes Ioseph vendiderunt in Aegyptum eterat Deus cum eo

7:10
et eripuit eum ex omnibus tribulationibus eius et dedit eigratiam et sapientiam in conspectu Pharaonis regis Aegypti etconstituit eum praepositum super Aegyptum et super omnem domumsuam

7:11
venit autem fames in universam Aegyptum et Chanaan ettribulatio magna et non inveniebant cibos patres nostri

7:12
cum audisset autem Iacob esse frumentum in Aegypto misitpatres nostros primum

7:13
et in secundo cognitus est Ioseph a fratribus suis etmanifestatum est Pharaoni genus eius

7:14
mittens autem Ioseph accersivit Iacob patrem suum et omnemcognationem in animabus septuaginta quinque

7:15
et descendit Iacob in Aegyptum et defunctus est ipse etpatres nostri

7:16
et translati sunt in Sychem et positi sunt in sepulchroquod emit Abraham pretio argenti a filiis Emmor filii Sychem

7:17
cum adpropinquaret autem tempus repromissionis quamconfessus erat Deus Abrahae crevit populus et multiplicatus estin Aegypto

7:18
quoadusque surrexit rex alius in Aegypto qui non sciebatIoseph

7:19
hic circumveniens genus nostrum adflixit patres utexponerent infantes suos ne vivificarentur

7:20
eodem tempore natus est Moses et fuit gratus Deo quinutritus est tribus mensibus in domo patris sui

7:21
exposito autem illo sustulit eum filia Pharaonis etenutrivit eum sibi in filium

7:22
et eruditus est Moses omni sapientia Aegyptiorum et eratpotens in verbis et in operibus suis

7:23
cum autem impleretur ei quadraginta annorum tempus ascenditin cor eius ut visitaret fratres suos filios Israhel

7:24
et cum vidisset quendam iniuriam patientem vindicavit illumet fecit ultionem ei qui iniuriam sustinebat percusso Aegyptio

7:25
existimabat autem intellegere fratres quoniam Deus permanum ipsius daret salutem illis at illi non intellexerunt

7:26
sequenti vero die apparuit illis litigantibus etreconciliabat eos in pacem dicens viri fratres estis ut quidnocetis alterutrum

7:27
qui autem iniuriam faciebat proximo reppulit eum dicensquis te constituit principem et iudicem super nos

7:28
numquid interficere me tu vis quemadmodum interfecisti heriAegyptium

7:29
fugit autem Moses in verbo isto et factus est advena interra Madiam ubi generavit filios duos

7:30
et expletis annis quadraginta apparuit illi in desertomontis Sina angelus in igne flammae rubi

7:31
Moses autem videns admiratus est visum et accedente illo utconsideraret facta est vox Domini

7:32
ego Deus patrum tuorum Deus Abraham et Deus Isaac et DeusIacob tremefactus autem Moses non audebat considerare

7:33
dixit autem illi Dominus solve calciamentum pedum tuorumlocus enim in quo stas terra sancta est

7:34
videns vidi adflictionem populi mei qui est in Aegypto etgemitum eorum audivi et descendi liberare eos et nunc veni etmittam te in Aegyptum

7:35
hunc Mosen quem negaverunt dicentes quis te constituitprincipem et iudicem hunc Deus principem et redemptorem misitcum manu angeli qui apparuit illi in rubo

7:36
hic eduxit illos faciens prodigia et signa in terra Aegyptiet in Rubro mari et in deserto annis quadraginta

7:37
hic est Moses qui dixit filiis Israhel prophetam vobissuscitabit Deus de fratribus vestris tamquam me

7:38
hic est qui fuit in ecclesia in solitudine cum angelo quiloquebatur ei in monte Sina et cum patribus nostris qui accepitverba vitae dare nobis

7:39
cui noluerunt oboedire patres nostri sed reppulerunt etaversi sunt cordibus suis in Aegyptum

7:40
dicentes ad Aaron fac nobis deos qui praecedant nos Mosesenim hic qui eduxit nos de terra Aegypti nescimus quid factumsit ei

7:41
et vitulum fecerunt in illis diebus et obtulerunt hostiamsimulacro et laetabantur in operibus manuum suarum

7:42
convertit autem Deus et tradidit eos servire militiae caelisicut scriptum est in libro Prophetarum numquid victimas authostias obtulistis mihi annis quadraginta in deserto domusIsrahel

7:43
et suscepistis tabernaculum Moloch et sidus dei vestriRempham figuras quas fecistis adorare eas et transferam vostrans Babylonem

7:44
tabernaculum testimonii fuit patribus nostris in desertosicut disposuit loquens ad Mosen ut faceret illud secundumformam quam viderat

7:45
quod et induxerunt suscipientes patres nostri cum Iesu inpossessionem gentium quas expulit Deus a facie patrum nostrorumusque in diebus David

7:46
qui invenit gratiam ante Deum et petiit ut invenirettabernaculum Deo Iacob

7:47
Salomon autem aedificavit illi domum

7:48
sed non Excelsus in manufactis habitat sicut propheta dicit

7:49
caelum mihi sedis est terra autem scabillum pedum meorumquam domum aedificabitis mihi dicit Dominus aut quis locusrequietionis meae est

7:50
nonne manus mea fecit haec omnia

7:51
dura cervice et incircumcisi cordibus et auribus vos semperSpiritui Sancto resistitis sicut patres vestri et vos

7:52
quem prophetarum non sunt persecuti patres vestri etocciderunt eos qui praenuntiabant de adventu Iusti cuius vosnunc proditores et homicidae fuistis

7:53
qui accepistis legem in dispositionem angelorum et noncustodistis

7:54
audientes autem haec dissecabantur cordibus suis etstridebant dentibus in eum

7:55
cum autem esset plenus Spiritu Sancto intendens in caelumvidit gloriam Dei et Iesum stantem a dextris Dei et ait eccevideo caelos apertos et Filium hominis a dextris stantem Dei

7:56
exclamantes autem voce magna continuerunt aures suas etimpetum fecerunt unianimiter in eum

7:57
et eicientes eum extra civitatem lapidabant et testesdeposuerunt vestimenta sua secus pedes adulescentis quivocabatur Saulus

7:58
et lapidabant Stephanum invocantem et dicentem Domine Iesususcipe spiritum meum

7:59
positis autem genibus clamavit voce magna Domine ne statuasillis hoc peccatum et cum hoc dixisset obdormivit Saulus autemerat consentiens neci eius

Continued...

007:001
Then said the high priest, Are these things so?

007:002
And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,

007:003
And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

007:004
Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.

007:005
And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

007:006
And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.

007:007
And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.

007:008
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.

007:009
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

007:010
And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

007:011
Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

007:012
But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.

007:013
And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.

007:014
Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.

007:015
So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,

007:016
And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.

007:017
But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

007:018
Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.

007:019
The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.

007:020
In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:

007:021
And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.

007:022
And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.

007:023
And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

007:024
And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:

007:025
For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.

007:026
And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?

007:027
But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

007:028
Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?

007:029
Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.

007:030
And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.

007:031
When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the LORD came unto him,

007:032
Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.

007:033
Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.

007:034
I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.

007:035
This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.

007:036
He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

007:037
This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.

007:038
This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:

007:039
To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

007:040
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.

007:041
And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

007:042
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 forty years in the wilderness?

007:043
Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

007:044
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.

007:045
Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;

007:046
Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

007:047
But Solomon built him an house.

007:048
Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,

007:049
Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?

007:050
Hath not my hand made all these things?

007:051
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

007:052
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:

007:053
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.

007:054
When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.

007:055
But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

007:056
And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

007:057
Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,

007:058
And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.

007:059
And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

007:060
And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

Back to Top