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to whom our fathers wouldn`t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
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A Pattern of Rejection
Commentators unanimously agree that Stephen is drawing a direct parallel. Just as the Israelites rejected Moses, their God-sent deliverer from bondage, Stephen's audience was rejecting Jesus, their deliverer from sin. This historical account serves as a powerful illustration of a recurring pattern of rejecting God's chosen saviors.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Would not obey, etc. This refers to what they said of him when he was in the mount, Exodus 32:1, 23.
In their hearts…
To whom (ω). That is Moses, this Moses.
Would not be (ουκ ηθελησαν γενεσθα). Aorist active, negative aoris…
19th Century
Anglican
To whom our fathers would not obey.—The historical parallelism is continued. The people rejected Moses then (the same wor…
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Baptist
Though Moses had brought them out of Egypt, they were not obedient to him, and they wanted to go back to the land of bondage.
And, ah! brothe…
But while Peter and Stephen agree in seeing Christological significance in Dt 18:15–18 and in considering it an important testimonium passage for a…
16th Century
Protestant
They refused, and were turned away. He says that the fathers rejected Moses; he also shows the cause, namely, that they gave themselves ov…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
To whom our fathers would not obey
But often murmured against him, and were disobedient to him, and to the oracles…
People deceive themselves if they think God cannot do what He sees to be good anywhere; He can bring His people into a wilderness and there speak c…
