Act 7:1Dīxit autem prīnceps sacerdōtum: Sī haec ita sē habent?And the chief of the priests said: "Are these things so?" Act 7:2Quī ait: Virī frātrēs et patrēs, audīte: Deus glōriae appāruit patrī nostrō Abrahae cum esset in Mesopotamiā, priusquam morārētur in Charan, et dīxit ad illum: Exī dē terrā tuā, et dē cognātiōne tuā, et vēnī in terram quam mōnstrāverō tibi.And he said: "Men, brothers and fathers, hear: the God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he stayed in Haran, and said to him: 'Go out from your land, and from your kindred, and come into the land which I shall show you.' Act 7:4Tunc exiit dē terrā Chaldaeōrum, et habitāvit in Charan.Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans, and lived in Haran. Act 7:4Et inde, postquam mortuus est pater ejus, trānstulit illum in terram istam, in quā nunc vōs habitātis.And from there, after his father had died, he moved him into this land, in which you now live. Act 7:5Et nōn dedit illī haereditātem in eā, nec passum pedis: sed reprōmīsit dare illī eam in possessiōnem, et sēminī ejus post ipsum, cum nōn habēret fīlium.And he did not give him an inheritance in it, not even the step of a foot: but he promised to give it to him into possession, and to his seed after him, though he did not have a son.
Act 7:6Locūtus est autem eī Deus: Quia erit sēmen ejus accola in terrā aliēnā, et servitūtī eōs subjicient, et male trāctābunt eōs annīs quadringentīs: et gentem cui servierint, jūdicābō ego, dīxit Dominus: et post haec exībunt, et servient mihi in locō istō.And God spoke to him: 'His seed will be a sojourner in a foreign land, and they will subject them to slavery, and will treat them badly for four hundred years: and the nation which they serve, I will judge,' said the Lord: 'and after these things they will go out, and will serve me in this place.' Act 7:8Et dedit illī testāmentum circumcīsiōnis: et sīc genuit Isaac, et circumcīdit eum diē octāvō: et Isaac, Jacob: et Jacob, duodecim patriarchās.And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so he begot Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day: and Isaac begot Jacob: and Jacob the twelve patriarchs. Act 7:9Et patriarchae aemulantēs, Jōsēph vēndidērunt in Aegyptum: et erat Deus cum eō, et ēripuit eum ex omnibus trībulātiōnibus ejus, et dedit eī grātiam et sapientiam in cōnspectū pharaōnis rēgis Aegyptī: et cōnstituit eum praepositum super Aegyptum, et super omnem domum suam.And the patriarchs, being jealous, sold Joseph into Egypt: and God was with him, and snatched him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt: and he appointed him governor over Egypt, and over all his house.
Act 7:11Vēnit autem famēs in ūniversam Aegyptum et Chanaan, et trībulātiō magna: et nōn inveniēbant cibōs patrēs nostrī.And there came a famine upon all Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation: and our fathers were not finding food. Act 7:12Cum audīsset autem Jacob esse frūmentum in Aegyptō, mīsit patrēs nostrōs prīmum: et in secundō cognitus est Jōsēph ā frātribus suīs, et manifestātum est Pharaōnī genus ejus.But when Jacob had heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers first: and the second time Joseph was recognized by his brothers, and his family was made manifest to Pharaoh. Act 7:14Mittēns autem Jōsēph, accersīvit Jacob patrem suum et omnem cognātiōnem suam, in animābus septuāgintā quīnque.And Joseph, sending, summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five souls. Act 7:15Et dēscendit Jacob in Aegyptum: et dēfūnctus est ipse, et patrēs nostrī.And Jacob went down into Egypt: and he himself died, and our fathers. Act 7:16Et trānslātī sunt in Sichem, et positī sunt in sepulchrō, quod ēmit Abraham pretiō argentī ā fīliīs Hemor fīliī Sichem.And they were carried over to Shechem, and were placed in the tomb which Abraham bought for a price of silver from the sons of Hamor, son of Shechem. Act 7:17Cum autem appropinquāret tempus prōmissiōnis quam cōnfessus erat Deus Abrahae, crēvit populus, et multiplicātus est in Aegyptō, quoadusque surrēxit alius rēx in Aegyptō, quī nōn sciēbat Jōsēph.But when the time of the promise which God had declared to Abraham was drawing near, the people grew, and was multiplied in Egypt, until another king arose in Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
Act 7:19Hic circumveniēns genus nostrum, afflīxit patrēs nostrōs ut expōnerent īnfantēs suōs, nē vīvificārentur.This man, dealing craftily with our race, afflicted our fathers, so that they would expose their infants, so that they might not be kept alive. Act 7:20Eōdem tempore nātus est Mōysēs, et fuit grātus Deō: quī nūtrītus est tribus mēnsibus in domō patris suī.At the same time Moses was born, and he was pleasing to God: who was nourished for three months in the house of his father. Act 7:21Expositō autem illō, sustulit eum fīlia Pharaōnis, et nūtrīvit eum sibi in fīlium.And when he had been exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and nourished him for herself as a son. Act 7:22Et ērudītus est Mōysēs omnī sapientiā Aegyptiōrum, et erat potēns in verbīs et in operibus suīs.And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and in his deeds. Act 7:23Cum autem implērētur eī quadrāgintā annōrum tempus, ascendit in cor ejus ut vīsitāret frātrēs suōs fīliōs Isrāël.But when the time of forty years was being completed for him, it came up into his heart to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel.
Act 7:24Et cum vīdisset quemdam injūriam patientem, vindicāvit illum, et fēcit ultiōnem eī quī injūriam sustinēbat, percussō Aegyptiō.And when he had seen a certain man suffering injury, he defended him, and took vengeance for him who was enduring the injury, the Egyptian having been struck down. Act 7:25Exīstimābat autem intelligere frātrēs, quoniam Deus per manum ipsīus daret salūtem illīs: at illī nōn intellēxērunt.And he supposed that his brothers understood that God through his hand was giving salvation to them: but they did not understand. Act 7:26Sequentī vērō diē appāruit illīs lītigantibus: et reconciliābat eōs in pāce, dīcēns: Virī, frātrēs estis: ut quid nocētis alterutrum?And on the following day he appeared to them as they were quarrelling: and he was reconciling them in peace, saying: 'Men, you are brothers: why do you harm one another?' Act 7:27Quī autem injūriam faciēbat proximō, repulit eum, dīcēns: Quis tē cōnstituit prīncipem et jūdicem super nōs?But he who was doing injury to his neighbour pushed him away, saying: 'Who appointed you ruler and judge over us? Act 7:28Numquid interficere mē tū vīs, quemadmodum interfēcistī herī Aegyptium?Surely you do not want to kill me, in the way that you killed the Egyptian yesterday?' Act 7:29Fūgit autem Mōysēs in verbō istō: et factus est advena in terrā Madian, ubi generāvit fīliōs duōs.And Moses fled at this word: and he became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he begot two sons.
Act 7:30Et explētīs annīs quadrāgintā, appāruit illī in dēsertō montis Sina angelus in igne flammae rubī.And forty years having been completed, there appeared to him in the desert of mount Sinai an angel in the fire of a flame of a bush. Act 7:31Mōysēs autem vidēns, admīrātus est vīsum.And Moses, seeing it, wondered at the sight. Act 7:31Et accēdente illō ut cōnsīderāret, facta est ad eum vōx Dominī, dīcēns: Ego sum Deus patrum tuōrum, Deus Abraham, Deus Isaac, et Deus Jacob.And as he approached to consider it, there came to him the voice of the Lord, saying: 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' Act 7:32Tremefactus autem Mōysēs, nōn audēbat cōnsīderāre.And Moses, made to tremble, did not dare to consider it. Act 7:33Dīxit autem illī Dominus: Solve calceāmentum pedum tuōrum: locus enim in quō stās, terra sāncta est.And the Lord said to him: 'Loosen the shoe of your feet: for the place in which you stand is holy ground. Act 7:34Vidēns vīdī afflīctiōnem populī meī quī est in Aegyptō, et gemitum eōrum audīvī, et dēscendī līberāre eōs.Seeing, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and I have come down to free them.
Act 7:34Et nunc venī, et mittam tē in Aegyptum.And now come, and I will send you into Egypt.' Act 7:35Hunc Moysēn, quem negāvērunt, dīcentēs: Quis tē cōnstituit prīncipem et jūdicem?This Moses, whom they denied, saying: 'Who appointed you ruler and judge?' Act 7:35Hunc Deus prīncipem et redēmptōrem mīsit, cum manū angelī quī appāruit illī in rubō.this man God sent as ruler and redeemer, with the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush. Act 7:36Hic ēdūxit illōs faciēns prōdigia et signa in terrā Aegyptī, et in rubrō marī, et in dēsertō annīs quadrāgintā.This man led them out, doing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the desert for forty years. Act 7:37Hic est Mōysēs, quī dīxit fīliīs Isrāël: Prophētam suscitābit vōbīs Deus dē frātribus vestrīs, tamquam mē: ipsum audiētis.This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel: 'A prophet will God raise up for you from your brothers, like me: him you will hear.' Act 7:38Hic est quī fuit in ecclēsiā in sōlitūdine cum angelō, quī loquēbātur eī in monte Sinā, et cum patribus nostrīs: quī accēpit verba vītae dare nōbīs.This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel, who was speaking to him on mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received words of life to give to us.
Act 7:39Cui nōluērunt Obēdīre patrēs nostrī: sed repulērunt, et āversī sunt cordibus suīs in Aegyptum, dīcentēs ad Aarōn: Fac nōbīs deōs quī praecēdant nōs: Mōysēs enim hic, quī ēdūxit nōs dē terrā Aegyptī, nescīmus quid factum sit eī.To whom our fathers were unwilling to be obedient: but they pushed him away, and in their hearts they turned back to Egypt, saying to Aaron: 'Make us gods who may go before us: for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.' Act 7:41Et vitulum fēcērunt in diēbus illīs, et obtulērunt hostiam simulācrō, et laetābantur in operibus manuum suārum.And they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their hands. Act 7:42Convertit autem Deus, et trādidit eōs servīre mīlitiae caelī, sīcut scrīptum est in librō prophētārum: [Numquid victimās et hostiās obtulistis mihi annīs quadrāgintā in dēsertō, domus Isrāël?But God turned, and handed them over to serve the army of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'Surely you did not offer victims and sacrifices to me for forty years in the desert, house of Israel?
Act 7:43Et suscēpistis tabernāculum Moloch, et sīdus deī vestrī Rempham, figūrās quās fēcistis adōrāre eās: et trānsferam vōs trāns Babylōnem.] Tabernāculum testimōniī fuit cum patribus nostrīs in dēsertō, sīcut disposuit illīs Deus loquēns ad Moysēn, ut faceret illud secundum fōrmam quam vīderat.And you took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of your god Rephan, figures which you made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.' The tent of testimony was with our fathers in the desert, as God arranged for them, speaking to Moses, that he should make it according to the form which he had seen. Act 7:45Quod et indūxērunt, suscipientēs patrēs nostrī cum Jēsū in possessiōnem gentium quās expulit Deus ā faciē patrum nostrōrum, ūsque in diēbus David, quī invēnit grātiam ante Deum, et petiit ut invenīret tabernāculum Deō Jacob.Which also our fathers, receiving it, brought in with Joshua into the possession of the nations which God drove out from the face of our fathers, until the days of David, who found favour before God, and asked that he might find a tent for the God of Jacob.
Act 7:47Salomōn autem aedificāvit illī domum.But Solomon built him a house. Act 7:48Sed nōn Excelsus in manūfactīs habitat, sīcut prophēta dīcit: [Caelum mihi sēdēs est: terra autem scabellum pedum meōrum.But the Most High does not dwell in things made by hand, as the prophet says: 'Heaven is my seat: and earth the footstool of my feet. Act 7:49Quam domum aedificābitis mihi?What house will you build for me? Act 7:49Dīcit Dominus: aut Quis locus requiētiōnis meae est?says the Lord: or what is the place of my rest? Act 7:50Nōnne manus mea fēcit haec omnia?] Dūrā cervīce, et incircumcīsīs cordibus et auribus, vōs semper Spīrituī Sānctō resistitis: sīcut patrēs vestrī, ita et vōs.Did not my hand make all these things?' Stiff of neck, and uncircumcised in hearts and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so also do you. Act 7:52Quem prophētārum nōn sunt persecūtī patrēs vestrī?Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? Act 7:52Et occīdērunt eōs quī praenūntiābant dē adventū Jūstī, cujus vōs nunc prōditōrēs et homicīdae fuistis: quī accēpistis lēgem in dispositiōne angelōrum, et nōn custōdīstis.And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now been the betrayers and murderers: you who received the law by the arrangement of angels, and have not kept it."
Act 7:54Audientēs autem haec, dissecābantur cordibus suīs, et strīdēbant dentibus in eum.And hearing these things, they were cut to their hearts, and they were gnashing their teeth at him. Act 7:55Cum autem esset plēnus Spīritū Sānctō, intendēns in caelum, vīdit glōriam Deī, et Jēsum stantem ā dextrīs Deī.But since he was full of the Holy Spirit, gazing into heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. Act 7:55Et ait: Ecce videō caelōs apertōs, et Fīlium hominis stantem ā dextrīs Deī.And he said: "Look, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God." Act 7:56Exclāmantēs autem vōce magnā continuērunt aurēs suās, et impetum fēcērunt ūnanimiter in eum.And crying out with a great voice they stopped their ears, and made a rush with one mind at him. Act 7:57Et ējicientēs eum extrā cīvitātem, lapidābant: et testēs dēposuērunt vestīmenta sua secus pedēs adolēscentis quī vocābātur Saulus.And throwing him out of the city, they were stoning him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes beside the feet of a young man who was called Saul.
Act 7:58Et lapidābant Stephanum invocantem, et dīcentem: Domine Jēsū, suscipe spīritum meum.And they were stoning Stephen as he was calling on him, and saying: "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." Act 7:59Positīs autem genibus, clāmāvit vōce magnā, dīcēns: Domine, nē statuās illīs hoc peccātum.And his knees having been placed on the ground, he shouted with a great voice, saying: "Lord, do not set this sin against them." Act 7:59Et cum hoc dīxisset, obdormīvit in Dominō.And when he had said this, he fell asleep in the Lord. Act 7:59Saulus autem erat cōnsentiēns necī ejus.And Saul was consenting to his death.