“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.”
They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile, the young men laid their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul - the 'stoning' (lithobolein) fulfills the penalty for blasphemy (Leviticus 24:16), though the execution is extrajudicial and violent. The detail 'laid their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul' introduces Saul of Tarsus, who will become Paul. His role as holder of the executioners' garments implicates him in the murder; he is 'consenting to his death' (Acts 8:1).
Church Fathers on Acts 7:43
To whom, he says, our fathers would not obey: Acts 7:39 after the wonders done in those forty years. And not only so, but just the contrary: but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt. 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 know not what has become of him. And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own…
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