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司提反当众申诉

1大祭司就说：「这些事果然有吗？」

2司提反说：「诸位父兄请听！当日我们的祖宗亚伯拉罕在美索不达米亚还未住哈兰的时候，荣耀的 神向他显现，

3对他说：『你要离开本地和亲族，往我所要指示你的地方去。』

4他就离开迦勒底人之地，住在哈兰。他父亲死了以后， 神使他从那里搬到你们现在所住之地。

5在这地方， 神并没有给他产业，连立足之地也没有给他；但应许要将这地赐给他和他的后裔为业；那时他还没有儿子。

6神说：『他的后裔必寄居外邦，那里的人要叫他们作奴仆，苦待他们四百年。』

7神又说：『使他们作奴仆的那国，我要惩罚。以后他们要出来，在这地方事奉我。』

8神又赐他割礼的约。于是亚伯拉罕生了以撒，第八日给他行了割礼。以撒生雅各；雅各生十二位先祖。

9「先祖嫉妒约瑟，把他卖到埃及去； 神却与他同在，

10救他脱离一切苦难，又使他在埃及王法老面前得恩典，有智慧。法老就派他作埃及国的宰相兼管全家。

11后来埃及和迦南全地遭遇饥荒，大受艰难，我们的祖宗就绝了粮。

12雅各听见在埃及有粮，就打发我们的祖宗初次往那里去。

13第二次约瑟与弟兄们相认，他的亲族也被法老知道了。

14约瑟就打发弟兄请父亲雅各和全家七十五个人都来。

15于是雅各下了埃及，后来他和我们的祖宗都死在那里；

16又被带到示剑，葬于亚伯拉罕在示剑用银子从哈抹子孙买来的坟墓里。

17「及至 神应许亚伯拉罕的日期将到，以色列民在埃及兴盛众多，

18直到有不晓得约瑟的新王兴起。

19他用诡计待我们的宗族，苦害我们的祖宗，叫他们丢弃婴孩，使婴孩不能存活。

20那时，摩西生下来，俊美非凡，在他父亲家里抚养了三个月。

21他被丢弃的时候，法老的女儿拾了去，养为自己的儿子。

22摩西学了埃及人一切的学问，说话行事都有才能。

23「他将到四十岁，心中起意去看望他的弟兄以色列人；

24到了那里，见他们一个人受冤屈，就护庇他，为那受欺压的人报仇，打死了那埃及人。

25他以为弟兄必明白 神是借他的手搭救他们；他们却不明白。

26第二天，遇见两个以色列人争斗，就劝他们和睦，说：『你们二位是弟兄，为什么彼此欺负呢？』

27那欺负邻舍的把他推开，说：『谁立你作我们的首领和审判官呢？

28难道你要杀我，像昨天杀那埃及人吗？』

29摩西听见这话就逃走了，寄居于米甸；在那里生了两个儿子。

30「过了四十年，在西奈山的旷野，有一位天使从荆棘火焰中向摩西显现。

31摩西见了那异象，便觉希奇，正进前观看的时候，有主的声音说：

32『我是你列祖的 神，就是亚伯拉罕的 神，以撒的 神，雅各的 神。』摩西战战兢兢，不敢观看。

33主对他说：『把你脚上的鞋脱下来，因为你所站之地是圣地。

34我的百姓在埃及所受的困苦，我实在看见了，他们悲叹的声音，我也听见了。我下来要救他们。你来！我要差你往埃及去。』

35这摩西就是百姓弃绝说『谁立你作我们的首领和审判官』的； 神却借那在荆棘中显现之使者的手差派他作首领、作救赎的。

36这人领百姓出来，在埃及，在红海，在旷野，四十年间行了奇事神迹。

37那曾对以色列人说『 神要从你们弟兄中间给你们兴起一位先知像我』的，就是这位摩西。

38这人曾在旷野会中和西奈山上，与那对他说话的天使同在，又与我们的祖宗同在，并且领受活泼的圣言传给我们。

39我们的祖宗不肯听从，反弃绝他，心里归向埃及，

40对亚伦说：『你且为我们造些神像，在我们前面引路；因为领我们出埃及地的那个摩西，我们不知道他遭了什么事。』

41那时，他们造了一个牛犊，又拿祭物献给那像，欢喜自己手中的工作。

42神就转脸不顾，任凭他们事奉天上的日月星辰，正如先知书上所写的说：以色列家啊， 你们四十年间在旷野， 岂是将牺牲和祭物献给我吗？

43你们抬着摩洛的帐幕和理番神的星， 就是你们所造为要敬拜的像。 因此，我要把你们迁到巴比伦外去。

44「我们的祖宗在旷野，有法柜的帐幕，是 神吩咐摩西叫他照所看见的样式做的。

45这帐幕，我们的祖宗相继承受。当 神在他们面前赶出外邦人去的时候，他们同约书亚把帐幕搬进承受为业之地，直存到大卫的日子。

46大卫在 神面前蒙恩，祈求为雅各的 神预备居所；

47却是所罗门为 神造成殿宇。

48其实，至高者并不住人手所造的，就如先知所言：

49主说：天是我的座位，地是我的脚凳； 你们要为我造何等的殿宇？ 哪里是我安息的地方呢？

50这一切不都是我手所造的吗？

51「你们这硬着颈项、心与耳未受割礼的人，常时抗拒圣灵！你们的祖宗怎样，你们也怎样。

52哪一个先知不是你们祖宗逼迫呢？他们也把预先传说那义者要来的人杀了；如今你们又把那义者卖了，杀了。

53你们受了天使所传的律法，竟不遵守。」

众人用石头打死司提反

54众人听见这话就极其恼怒，向司提反咬牙切齿。

55但司提反被圣灵充满，定睛望天，看见 神的荣耀，又看见耶稣站在 神的右边，

56就说：「我看见天开了，人子站在 神的右边。」

57众人大声喊叫，捂着耳朵，齐心拥上前去，

58把他推到城外，用石头打他。作见证的人把衣裳放在一个少年人名叫扫罗的脚前。

59他们正用石头打的时候，司提反呼吁主说：「求主耶稣接收我的灵魂！」

60又跪下大声喊着说：「主啊，不要将这罪归于他们！」说了这话，就睡了。扫罗也喜悦他被害。

1Then the high priest said: Are these things so?

2Who said: Ye men, brethren, and fathers, hear. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charan.

3And said to him: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

4Then he went out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charan. And from thence, after his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein you now dwell.

5And he gave him no inheritance in it; no, not the pace of a foot: but he promised to give it him in possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

6And God said to him: That his seed should sojourn in a strange country, and that they should bring them under bondage, and treat them evil four hundred years.

7And the nation which they shall serve will I judge, said the Lord; and after these things they shall go out, and shall serve me in this place.

8And he gave him the covenant of circumcision, and so he begot Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begot Jacob; and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.

9And the patriarchs, through envy, sold Joseph into Egypt; and God was with him,

10And delivered him out of all his tribulations: and he gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharao, the king of Egypt; and he appointed him governor over Egypt, and over all his house.

11Now there came a famine upon all Egypt and Chanaan, and great tribulation; and our fathers found no food.

12But when Jacob had heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent our fathers first:

13And at the second time, Joseph was known by his brethren, and his kindred was made known to Pharao.

14And Joseph sending, called thither Jacob, his father, and all his kindred, seventy-five souls.

15So Jacob went down into Egypt; and he died, and our fathers.

16And they were translated into Sichem, and were laid in the sepulchre, that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Hemor, the son of Sichem.

17And when the time of the promise drew near, which God had promised to Abraham, the people increased, and were multiplied in Egypt,

18Till another king arose in Egypt, who knew not Joseph.

19This same dealing craftily with our race, afflicted our fathers, that they should expose their children, to the end they might not be kept alive.

20At the same time was Moses born, and he was acceptable to God: who was nourished three months in his father’s house.

21And when he was exposed, Pharao’s daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.

22And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians; and he was mighty in his words and in his deeds.

23And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.

24And when he had seen one of them suffer wrong, he defended him; and striking the Egyptian, he avenged him who suffered the injury.

25And he thought that his brethren understood that God by his hand would save them; but they understood it not.

26And the day following, he shewed himself to them when they were at strife; and would have reconciled them in peace, saying: Men, ye are brethren; why hurt you one another?

27But he that did the injury to his neighbour thrust him away, saying: Who hath appointed thee prince and judge over us?

28What, wilt thou kill me, as thou didst yesterday kill the Egyptian?

29And Moses fled upon this word, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begot two sons.

30And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the desert of mount Sina, an angel in a flame of fire in a bush.

31And Moses seeing it, wondered at the sight. And as he drew near to view it, the voice of the Lord came unto him, saying:

32I am the God of thy fathers; the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses being terrified, durst not behold.

33And the Lord said to him: Loose the shoes from thy feet, for the place wherein thou standest, is holy ground.

34Seeing 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, and I will send thee into Egypt.

35This Moses, whom they refused, saying: Who hath appointed thee prince and judge? him God sent to be prince and redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

36He brought them out, doing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the desert forty years.

37This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel: A prophet shall God raise up to you of your own brethren, as myself: him shall you hear.

38This is he that was in the church in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on mount Sina, and with our fathers; who received the words of life to give unto us.

39Whom our fathers would not obey; but thrust him away, and in their hearts turned back into Egypt,

40Saying to Aaron: Make us gods to go before us. For as for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.

41And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifices to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

42And God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of heaven, as it is written in the books of the prophets: Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me for forty years, in the desert, O house of Israel?

43And you took unto you the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Rempham, figures which you made to adore them. And I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

44The tabernacle of the testimony was with our fathers in the desert, as God ordained for them, speaking to Moses, that he should make it according to the form which he had seen.

45Which also our fathers receiving, brought in with Jesus, into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David.

46Who found grace before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

47But Solomon built him a house.

48Yet the most High dwelleth not in houses made by hands, as the prophet saith:

49Heaven is my throne, and the earth my footstool. What house will you build me? saith the Lord; or what is the place of my resting?

50Hath not my hand made all these things?

51You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do you also.

52Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them who foretold of the coming of the Just One; of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers:

53Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.

54Now hearing these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed with their teeth at him.

55But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looking up steadfastly to heaven, saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God. And he said: Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

56And they crying out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and with one accord ran violently upon him.

57And casting him forth without the city, they stoned him; and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man, whose name was Saul.

58And they stoned Stephen, invoking, and saying: Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

59And falling on his knees, he cried with a loud voice, saying: Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep in the Lord. And Saul was consenting to his death.

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