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~ - Φ ~ lal - α τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν, ὃς ἐδέξατο λόγια ζῶντα δοῦναι ἡμῖν. 39. ᾧ οὐκ ἠθέλησαν ὑπήκοοι γενέσθαι οἱ πατέρες ἡμῶν, ἀλλ᾽ ἀπώσαντο, καὶ > , 3 a , SE > ” ney", - ἐστράφησαν ” ταῖς καρδίαις αὐτῶν εἰς Αἴγυπτον, 40. εἰπόντες τῷ > , «ες , (ML x a , ~ c 4 Ααρών, ''Ποίησον ἡμῖν θεοὺς ot προπορεύσονται ἡμῶν: ὁ γὰρ a“ 2 2 i - ~ Μωσῆς οὗτος, ὃς ἐξήγαγεν ἡμᾶς ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου, οὐκ οἴδαμεν τί a» ” γέγονεν * αὐτῷ. 41. καὶ ἐμοσχοποίησαν ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις, καὶ ἀνήγαγον θυσίαν τῷ εἰδώλ i εὖφραί ἐν τοῖς € ῶ νήγαγ ίαν τῷ εἰδώλω, καὶ εὐφραίνοντο ἐν τοῖς ἔργοις τῶν Χειρῶν αὐτῶν. 42. Ἕστρεψε δὲ 6 Θεός, καὶ παρέδωκεν αὐτοὺς λατρεύειν τῇ στρατιᾷ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ: καθὼς γέγραπται ἐν βίβλῳ τῶν
προφητῶν, “Mi σφάγια καὶ θυσίας προσηνέγκατέ µοι Erm τεσσαρά-
1 nu; but SB read υμιν, so W.H. text, Weiss. αλλ): but αλλα in ΝΑΒΟΡΕΗ, so Tisch., W.H., Weiss, Hilg.
> εστραφησαν, D reads απεστραφησαν, so Hilg. ταις κορδιαις DE, Vulg., Arm., Syr. Pesh., Chrys., Irenint.; so Meyer; ev pref. in S8ABC, so W.H., R.V., Weiss.
* eyevero ΝΑΒΟ, 5ο W.H., R.V., Blass (cf. Exod. xxxii. 1, pr. R.V.).
of the words of God, cf. Numb. xxiv. 4, 16, and chiefly for any utterance of God whether precept or promise, only once of human words (Ps. xviii. (xix.) 14); so Philo speaks of the decalogue as τὰ δέκα λόγια, and Jos., B. F., vi., 5, 4, of the prophecies of God in the O.T., and Philo writes τὸ λόγιον τοῦ προφήτου (1.ε., Moses), Vit. Moys., iii., 35, see Grimm- Thayer, sub v., λόγιον, lit., a little word, irom the brevity of oracular responses.— ζῶντα: ‘vim vitalem habentia,’’ Blass, ο Περ αν: απο, hy Pets in) 23) ef uDent: xxxii. 47. The words again show how far St. Stephen was from despising the Law of Moses, cf. Heb. iv. 12, ‘‘ living,” ΕΝ. \(SSiquick,t), A.V.) 5) eb. 1. 3, απά ii. 5, where R.V. has “living” instead of “lively”; in Ps, xxxviii. 19 ‘lively ” is retained in R.V. (see also in Exod. i. Ig, in contrast to feeble, languid), cf. Spenser, Faérie Queene, iii., 8,5. Here the word has the sense of living, {.6., enduring, abiding, cf. ‘thy true and lively [living] word” in prayer for the Church Militant, cf. 1 Pet. i. 23, R.V.
Ver. 39. ἐστράφησαν, i.c., in their desires after the Egyptian gods, cf. ver. 40, not ‘turned back again,” but simply “turned ” (Rendall, zm loco). The words cannot be taken literally (as Corn. 4 Lap. and others), or we should have to render ‘‘ who may go before us 7m our return to Egypt,” which not only is un- supported by the Greek, but cf. Exod. XXxli. 4, I Kings xii. 28 ; see also on this verse, Exod. xvi. 3, Num. xi. 4, 5, but the desires there expressed marked a later date.
Ver. 40. προπορεύσονται (Exod. xvi. 3, Num. xi. 4, 5), only elsewhere in N.T., in Luke i. 76, with which cf. Deut. xxxi. 3. The words in Acts are taken from Exod. xxxii. 1, 23; frequent in LXX, 1 Macc. ix. 11 (but see H. and R.), and also in Xen. and Polyb.—oitos, iste, cf. vi. 14, the same anacoluthon as in LXX, Exod. xxxii. 23, so in the Heb., “‘ who brought us up”: no mention of God— they ascribed all to Moses (Chrysostom) ; see Viteau, Le Grec du N. T., p. 135 (1896).
Ver. 41. ἐμοσχοποίησαν: not in LXX or in classical Greek; in Exod. xxxii. 2, ἐποίησαν µόσχον.- ἀνήγαγον θυσίαν, cf. 1 Kings tii. 15 (and 2 Sam. vi. 17, A.), for similar use of the word, ‘ quia victima in aram tollitur,” ἀτίπητη.---εὐφραίνοντο, cf. Exod. xxxii. 6 and 18; the word is very frequent in LXX, and several times with ἐν, cf., e.g., 2 Chron. vi. 41, Ecclesiast. xiv. 5, 1 Macc. iii. 7; χαίρειν év, Luke x. 20; used only by St. Luke amongst the Evangelists, six times in his Gospel, twice in Acts (but Π. 26 is a quotation). Bengel points out that God rejoices in the works of His own hands, and men in the work of God’s hands, but not as here—half irony in the words.