Acts 7:52 (WEB)
Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.
Catechism · 2
“Hence we cannot lay responsibility for the trial on the Jews in Jerusalem as a whole, despite the outcry of a manipulated crowd and the global reproaches contained in the apostles' calls to conversion after Pentecost.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mk 15:11; Acts 2:23, 36; 3:13-14; 4:10; 5:30; 7:52; 10:39; 13:27-28; I Th 2:14-15.
“Citing a confession of faith that he himself had "received", St. Paul professes that "Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures."” — Catechism footnote: 1 Cor 15:3; cf. also Acts 3:18; 7:52; 13:29; 26:22-23.
Fathers and councils · 5
Origen
“And they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers.”” — editor's note: Acts vii. 52.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“Let us condemn him with a shameful death, for by his own saying he shall be respected.”” — editor's note: Wisd. ii. 14, 16, 17, 20. [The argument is ad hominem. The Jews valued this book, but did not account it to be Scripture; yet this quotation is a very…
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Augustine of Hippo
“Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: who have received the Law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.”” — editor's note: Acts vii. 51–53
Read the whole comment“Which of the Prophets have not your fathers killed?”” — editor's note: Acts vii. 51, 52.
Read the whole comment“…would have them consumed at once,—but when the stones thrown from their hands reached him, with fixed knee he saith, “Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.”” — editor's note: Acts vii. 51–59.
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