“Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?”
'That was the time they made an idol in the form of a calf. They brought sacrifices to the idol and reveled in what their own hands had made - the golden calf (Exodus 32:4) becomes the symbol of idolatry: making a god in your own image, offering to it, and celebrating human achievement. The 'reveled in what their own hands had made' (euphrainonto en tois ergois tōn cheirōn) shows the spiritual inversion: humans worship their own creations. This is the essence of idolatry and the core sin of the Jewish establishment.
Church Fathers on Acts 7:28
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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