Acts 7:53 (WEB)
You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”
Catechism · 1
“…hand; communicated the law by their ministry; led the People of God; announced births and callings; and assisted the prophets, just to cite a few examples.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Job 38:7 (where angels are called "sons of God"); Gen 3:24; 19; 21: 17; 22:11; Acts 7:53; Ex 23:20-23; Judg 13; 6:11-24; Is 6:6; 1 Kings 19:5.
Fathers and councils · 4
John Chrysostom
“And again, “Ye received a law by the disposition of Angels, and have not kept it.” ( Acts vii. 53.)” — the author cites it
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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“And so it has pleased Divine Providence, as I have said, and as we read in the Acts of the Apostles, that the law enjoining the worship of one God should be given by the disposition of angels.” — editor's note: Acts vii. 53.
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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