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To this he replied: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Harran.
Стефан ответил: — Братья и отцы! Выслушайте меня. Бог славы явился нашему праотцу Аврааму, когда он жил еще в Месопотамии — до того, как он поселился в Харране.
He gave him no inheritance here, not even enough ground to set his foot on. But God promised him that he and his descendants after him would possess the land, even though at that time Abraham had no child.
Он не дал ему здесь никакого наследия, не дал земли даже на ширину ступни.42 Но Бог обещал дать эту землю во владение ему и его потомкам, хотя в то время у Авраама не было ребенка.
God spoke to him in this way: ‘For four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated.
Then he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. And Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him eight days after his birth. Later Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.
Затем Он дал Аврааму завет обрезания.44 Авраам стал отцом Исаака и обрезал его на восьмой день после рождения, Исаак же стал отцом Иакова, а Иаков — двенадцати патриархов.45
and rescued him from all his troubles. He gave Joseph wisdom and enabled him to gain the goodwill of Pharaoh king of Egypt. So Pharaoh made him ruler over Egypt and all his palace.
и избавил его от всех бед. Он дал Иосифу мудрость и помог ему заслужить расположение фараона, царя Египта. Тот сделал Иосифа правителем всего Египта и всего своего дома.
The next day Moses came upon two Israelites who were fighting. He tried to reconcile them by saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why do you want to hurt each other?’
I have indeed seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to set them free. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’g
“This is the same Moses they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ He was sent to be their ruler and deliverer by God himself, through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
Того самого Моисея, которого они отвергли и о котором говорили: «Кто поставил тебя начальником и судьей?»51 — Бог посылал теперь как вождя и избавителя через Ангела, Который явился ему в терновом кусте.
He was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors; and he received living words to pass on to us.
Он, Моисей , — тот самый человек, который был с народом Израиля, собранным в пустыне; он был там с Ангелом, Который говорил с ним на горе Синай, и с нашими отцами. Он принял живые слова, чтобы передать их нам.
But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the sun, moon and stars. This agrees with what is written in the book of the prophets: “ ‘Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?
You have taken up the tabernacle of Molek and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile’j beyond Babylon.
Вы взяли с собой шатер Молоха,54 звезду вашего бога Ремфана и изображения, которые вы сделали для поклонения. Поэтому Я пошлю вас в плен дальше Вавилона».55
“Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the covenant law with them in the wilderness. It had been made as God directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.
After receiving the tabernacle, our ancestors under Joshua brought it with them when they took the land from the nations God drove out before them. It remained in the land until the time of David,
Получив эту скинию, наши отцы, под предводительством Иисуса Навина , внесли ее во владения народов, которых Бог изгнал перед ними. И так было до времен царствования Давида,
Was there ever a prophet your ancestors did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him —