1 Then said the high priest, Are these things so? 2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, 3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee. 4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldæans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell. 5 And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child. 6 And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years. 7 And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place. 8 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs. 9 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him, 10 And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house. 11 Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance. 12 But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first. 13 And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph’s kindred was made known unto Pharaoh. 14 Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him , and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls. 15 So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers, 16 And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem. 17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, 18 Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph. 19 The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live. 20 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father’s house three months: 21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son. 22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds. 23 And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel. 24 And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him , and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian: 25 For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not. 26 And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another? 27 But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? 28 Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday? 29 Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons. 30 And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush. 31 When Moses saw it , he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it , the voice of the Lord came unto him, 32 Saying , I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold. 33 Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground. 34 I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt. 35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush. 36 He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
37 ¶ This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear. 38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us: 39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt, 40 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 wot not what is become of him. 41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. 42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness? 43 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. 44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen. 45 Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David; 46 Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. 47 But Solomon built him an house. 48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, 49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest? 50 Hath not my hand made all these things?
51 ¶ Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did , so do ye. 52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: 53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
54 ¶ When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. 55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, 56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. 57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, 58 And cast him out of the city, and stoned him : and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul. 59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God , and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. 60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
1 dixit autem princeps sacerdotum
si haec ita se habent
2 qui ait viri fratres et patres audite
Deus gloriae apparuit patri nostro Abraham
cum esset in Mesopotamiam
priusquam moraretur in Charram
3 et dixit ad illum
exi de terra tua et de cognatione tua
et veni in terram quam tibi monstravero
4 tunc exiit de terra Chaldeorum et habitavit in Charram
et inde postquam mortuus est pater eius
transtulit illum in terram istam in qua nunc vos habitatis
5 et non dedit illi hereditatem in ea nec passum pedis
et repromisit dare illi eam in possessionem
et semini eius post ipsum
cum non haberet filium
6 locutus est autem Deus
quia erit semen eius accola in terra aliena
et servituti eos subicient
et male tractabunt eos annis quadringentis
7 et gentem cui servierint iudicabo ego dixit Deus
et post haec exibunt et deservient mihi in loco isto
8 et dedit illi testamentum circumcisionis
et sic genuit Isaac et circumcidit eum die octava
et Isaac Iacob et Iacob duodecim patriarchas
9 et patriarchae aemulantes Ioseph vendiderunt in Aegyptum
et erat Deus cum eo
10 et eripuit eum ex omnibus tribulationibus eius
et dedit ei gratiam et sapientiam
in conspectu Pharaonis regis Aegypti
et constituit eum praepositum super Aegyptum
et super omnem domum suam
11 venit autem fames
in universam Aegyptum et Chanaan
et tribulatio magna
et non inveniebant cibos patres nostri
12 cum audisset autem Iacob esse frumentum in Aegypto
misit patres nostros primum
13 et in secundo cognitus est Ioseph a fratribus suis
et manifestatum est Pharaoni genus eius
14 mittens autem Ioseph accersivit Iacob patrem suum
et omnem cognationem
in animabus septuaginta quinque
15 et descendit Iacob in Aegyptum
et defunctus est ipse et patres nostri
16 et translati sunt in Sychem et positi sunt in sepulchro
quod emit Abraham pretio argenti a filiis Emmor filii Sychem
17 cum adpropinquaret autem tempus repromissionis
quam confessus erat Deus Abrahae
crevit populus et multiplicatus est in Aegypto
18 quoadusque surrexit rex alius in Aegypto
qui non sciebat Ioseph
19 hic circumveniens genus nostrum adflixit patres
ut exponerent infantes suos ne vivificarentur
20 eodem tempore natus est Moses et fuit gratus Deo
qui nutritus est tribus mensibus in domo patris sui
21 exposito autem illo sustulit eum filia Pharaonis
et enutrivit eum sibi in filium
22 et eruditus est Moses omni sapientia Aegyptiorum
et erat potens in verbis et in operibus suis
23 cum autem impleretur ei quadraginta annorum tempus
ascendit in cor eius ut visitaret fratres suos filios Israhel
24 et cum vidisset quendam iniuriam patientem vindicavit illum
et fecit ultionem ei qui iniuriam sustinebat percusso Aegyptio
25 existimabat autem intellegere fratres
quoniam Deus per manum ipsius daret salutem illis
at illi non intellexerunt
26 sequenti vero die apparuit illis litigantibus
et reconciliabat eos in pacem dicens
viri fratres estis ut quid nocetis alterutrum
27 qui autem iniuriam faciebat proximo reppulit eum dicens
quis te constituit principem et iudicem super nos
28 numquid interficere me tu vis
quemadmodum interfecisti heri Aegyptium
29 fugit autem Moses in verbo isto
et factus est advena in terra Madiam ubi generavit filios duos
30 et expletis annis quadraginta
apparuit illi in deserto montis Sina angelus in igne flammae rubi
31 Moses autem videns admiratus est visum
et accedente illo ut consideraret
facta est vox Domini
32 ego Deus patrum tuorum
Deus Abraham et Deus Isaac et Deus Iacob
tremefactus autem Moses non audebat considerare
33 dixit autem illi Dominus solve calciamentum pedum tuorum
locus enim in quo stas terra sancta est
34 videns vidi adflictionem populi mei qui est in Aegypto
et gemitum eorum audivi et descendi liberare eos
et nunc veni et mittam te in Aegyptum
35 hunc Mosen quem negaverunt dicentes
quis te constituit principem et iudicem
hunc Deus principem et redemptorem misit cum manu angeli
qui apparuit illi in rubo
36 hic eduxit illos faciens prodigia et signa
in terra Aegypti et in Rubro mari et in deserto annis quadraginta
37 hic est Moses qui dixit filiis Israhel
prophetam vobis suscitabit Deus de fratribus vestris
tamquam me
38 hic est qui fuit in ecclesia in solitudine cum angelo
qui loquebatur ei in monte Sina
et cum patribus nostris
qui accepit verba vitae dare nobis
39 cui noluerunt oboedire patres nostri
sed reppulerunt et aversi sunt cordibus suis in Aegyptum
40 dicentes ad Aaron fac nobis deos qui praecedant nos
Moses enim hic qui eduxit nos de terra Aegypti
nescimus quid factum sit ei
41 et vitulum fecerunt in illis diebus
et obtulerunt hostiam simulacro
et laetabantur in operibus manuum suarum
42 convertit autem Deus et tradidit eos servire militiae caeli
sicut scriptum est in libro Prophetarum
numquid victimas aut hostias obtulistis mihi
annis quadraginta in deserto domus Israhel
43 et suscepistis tabernaculum Moloch et sidus dei vestri Rempham
figuras quas fecistis adorare eas
et transferam vos trans Babylonem
44 tabernaculum testimonii fuit patribus nostris in deserto
sicut disposuit loquens ad Mosen
ut faceret illud secundum formam quam viderat
45 quod et induxerunt suscipientes patres nostri cum Iesu
in possessionem gentium
quas expulit Deus a facie patrum nostrorum
usque in diebus David
46 qui invenit gratiam ante Deum
et petiit ut inveniret tabernaculum Deo Iacob
47 Salomon autem aedificavit illi domum
48 sed non Excelsus in manufactis habitat sicut propheta dicit
49 caelum mihi sedis est terra autem scabillum pedum meorum
quam domum aedificabitis mihi dicit Dominus
aut quis locus requietionis meae est
50 nonne manus mea fecit haec omnia
51 dura cervice et incircumcisi cordibus et auribus
vos semper Spiritui Sancto resistitis
sicut patres vestri et vos
52 quem prophetarum non sunt persecuti patres vestri
et occiderunt eos qui praenuntiabant de adventu Iusti
cuius vos nunc proditores et homicidae fuistis
53 qui accepistis legem in dispositionem angelorum
et non custodistis
54 audientes autem haec dissecabantur cordibus suis
et stridebant dentibus in eum
55 cum autem esset plenus Spiritu Sancto
intendens in caelum vidit gloriam Dei
et Iesum stantem a dextris Dei et ait
ecce video caelos apertos
et Filium hominis a dextris stantem Dei
56 exclamantes autem voce magna continuerunt aures suas
et impetum fecerunt unianimiter in eum
57 et eicientes eum extra civitatem lapidabant
et testes deposuerunt vestimenta sua secus pedes adulescentis
qui vocabatur Saulus
58 et lapidabant Stephanum invocantem et dicentem
Domine Iesu suscipe spiritum meum
59 positis autem genibus clamavit voce magna
Domine ne statuas illis hoc peccatum
et cum hoc dixisset obdormivit
Saulus autem erat consentiens neci eius