Acts 7:38 (WEB)
This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,
Fathers and councils · 7
Irenaeus of Lyons
“And ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of the god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them;” pointing out plainly, that the law being such, was not given to them by another God, but that, adapted to their condition of servitude, [it originated] from the very same [God as we worship].” — editor's note: Acts vii. 38, etc.
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Tertullian
“And when the gold out of the necklaces of the women and the rings of the men had been wholly smelted by fire, and there had come forth a calf-like head, to this figment Israel with one consent (abandoning God) gave honour, saying, “These are the gods who brought us from the land of Egypt.”” — editor's note: Ex. xxxii. 4: comp. Acts vii. 38–41; 1 Cor. x. 7; Ps. cvi. 19–22.
Read the whole comment“It was proper that the Word should there appear in body, where He had aforetime, wrought in a cloud.” — editor's note: Sermonem. [Nota Bene, Acts vii. 38.]
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Ambrose of Milan
“Now the oracles of the prophets bear witness what close unity holy Scripture declares to subsist between the Father and the Son as regards their Godhead.” — editor's note: Rom. iii. 2; Acts vii. 38. The Hebrew word translated “burden” in the A.V.—e.g. Isa. xiii. 1—may be rendered “oracle.” The “oracles” of the Hebrew prophets…
Read the whole comment“It was of this Moses that Stephen said, “This is He Who was in the church, in the wilderness, with the Angel.”” — editor's note: Acts vii. 38.
Read the whole comment“Herein is the quickening word that we read as our help, for we have heard the passage read where the Lord saith: “Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to all creation.”” — editor's note: præsens. Cf. Acts vii. 38—“lively oracles.”
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Leo the Great
“…of the Holy Scriptures, those opponents of the Truth of which we speak have rejected the law that was given through Moses and the divinely inspired utterances of the prophets, and have tampered with the very pages of the gospels and apostles, by removing or inserting certain things: forging for themselves under the…” — editor's note: Oracula representing the λόγια of the New Testament (viz. Acts vii. 38, Rom. iii. 2, &c.).
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Cross-references · 15
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 34.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.14.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.14.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.14.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.14.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.14.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 34.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 34.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.14.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 34.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 34.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.14.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.14.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.14.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.14.