“But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?”
'They told Aaron, 'Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who led us out of Egypt - we don't know what has happened to him - the refrain 'this fellow Moses' (ho Mōysēs houtos, this Moses) expresses contempt and alienation. The demand for gods reflects Exodus 32:1, the golden calf incident. The 'gods who will go before us' (theous hoi proporefountai hēmōn) suggests desire for a tangible, controllable deity, not the transcendent God who demands obedience.
Church Fathers on Acts 7:27
they understood not. And the next day he showed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, you are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another? Acts 7:26-28 Do you mark with what mildness he addresses them? He who had shown his wrath in the case of the other, shows his gentleness in his own case. But he that did his neighbor wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Will you kill me, as you did the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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