“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.”
'You have taken up the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. And so I will send you into exile beyond Babylon - Stephen continues quoting Amos 5:26-27, moving from the golden calf to the later worship of false gods (Moloch, Rephan). The 'exile beyond Babylon' (hyperan Babulōnos) predicts the deportation of Israel as divine punishment for idolatry. The implication: Israel's pattern of rejecting God's true way leads to exile, and this pattern continues in Stephen's time.
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