Actuum Apostolorum 7
1 Dixit autem princeps sacerdotum: Si hæc ita se habent?
And the high priest said, "Are these things so?"
2 Qui ait: Viri fratres et patres, audite: Deus gloriæ apparuit patri nostro Abrahæ cum esset in Mesopotamia, priusquam moraretur in Charan,
Stephen answered. "Listen, brothers and fathers. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,
3 et dixit ad illum: Exi de terra tua, et de cognatione tua, et veni in terram quam monstravero tibi.
and said to him, "Leave your country and your kindred, and come to whatever land I will show you.
4 Tunc exiit de terra Chaldæorum, et habitavit in Charan. Et inde, postquam mortuus est pater ejus, transtulit illum in terram istam, in qua nunc vos habitatis.
"So he left Chaldea and settled in Haran, and from there, after his father’s death, God moved him to this land which you inhabit.
5 Et non dedit illi hæreditatem in ea, nec passum pedis: sed repromisit dare illi eam in possessionem, et semini ejus post ipsum, cum non haberet filium.
"But he gave him no inheritance in it, no, not a single square yard of ground; yet he promised to bestow the land as a permanent possession on him and his posterity - he at that time being childless.
6 Locutus est autem ei Deus: Quia erit semen ejus accola in terra aliena, et servituti eos subjicient, et male tractabunt eos annis quadringentis:
"What God said was this. "‘His offspring will sojourn in a foreign land where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.
7 et gentem cui servierint, judicabo ego, dixit Dominus: et post hæc exibunt, et servient mihi in loco isto.
"‘And the nation, whichever it is, that enslaves them I will judge, said God, ‘and after ward they shall come out, and they shall worship me in this place.
8 Et dedit illi testamentum circumcisionis: et sic genuit Isaac, et circumcidit eum die octavo: et Isaac, Jacob: et Jacob, duodecim patriarchas.
"Then he gave him a covenant of circumcision, and under this covenant he became the father of Isaac, whom he circumcised on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve Patriarchs.
9 Et patriarchæ æmulantes, Joseph vendiderunt in Ægyptum: et erat Deus cum eo,
"The patriarchs out of jealousy sold Joseph into Egypt.
10 et eripuit eum ex omnibus tribulationibus ejus, et dedit ei gratiam et sapientiam in conspectu pharaonis regis Ægypti: et constituit eum præpositum super Ægyptum, et super omnem domum suam.
"But God was with him, and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him grace and wisdom, when he stood before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who appointed him Governor over Egypt, and over all the royal household.
11 Venit autem fames in universam Ægyptum et Chanaan, et tribulatio magna: et non inveniebant cibos patres nostri.
"Then there came a famine over the whole of Egypt and Canaan, and great distress, so that our ancestors could not find food.
12 Cum audisset autem Jacob esse frumentum in Ægypto, misit patres nostros primum:
"But Jacob heard that there was food in Egypt, and sent our ancestors there on their first visit.
13 et in secundo cognitus est Joseph a fratribus suis, et manifestatum est Pharaoni genus ejus.
"On their second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Pharaoh was informed of Joseph’s parentage.
14 Mittens autem Joseph, accersivit Jacob patrem suum et omnem cognationem suam, in animabus septuaginta quinque.
"Then Joseph sent and invited Jacob his father and all his family, numbering seventy-five souls, to come to him;
15 Et descendit Jacob in Ægyptum: et defunctus est ipse, et patres nostri.
"and Jacob went down into Egypt.
16 Et translati sunt in Sichem, et positi sunt in sepulchro, quod emit Abraham pretio argenti a filiis Hemor filii Sichem.
"There he died, and our ancestors also, and they were carried across to Shechem, and laid in the tomb which Abraham had purchased for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
17 Cum autem appropinquaret tempus promissionis quam confessus erat Deus Abrahæ, crevit populus, et multiplicatus est in Ægypto,
"but as the time drew near for the fulfilment of the promise which God made to Abraham, the people multiplied and increased in Egypt;
18 quoadusque surrexit alius rex in Ægypto, qui non sciebat Joseph.
"until there arose a king who knew not Joseph.
19 Hic circumveniens genus nostrum, afflixit patres nostros ut exponerent infantes suos, ne vivificarentur.
"He dealt craftily with our race, and oppressed our forefathers, by making them expose their infants so that they should not live.
20 Eodem tempore natus est Moyses, et fuit gratus Deo: qui nutritus est tribus mensibus in domo patris sui.
"In this time Moses was born, a divinely beautiful child, who was brought up for three months in his father’s house.
21 Exposito autem illo, sustulit eum filia Pharaonis, et nutrivit eum sibi in filium.
"When he was exposed, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and brought him up as her own son.
22 Et eruditus est Moyses omni sapientia Ægyptiorum, et erat potens in verbis et in operibus suis.
"So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in his words and works.
23 Cum autem impleretur ei quadraginta annorum tempus, ascendit in cor ejus ut visitaret fratres suos filios Israël.
"And when he was forty years old it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel;
24 Et cum vidisset quemdam injuriam patientem, vindicavit illum, et fecit ultionem ei qui injuriam sustinebat, percusso Ægyptio.
"and when he saw one of them wronged he wrought redress for the one overpowered, by striking down the Egyptian.
25 Existimabat autem intelligere fratres, quoniam Deus per manum ipsius daret salutem illis: at illi non intellexerunt.
"(Now he supposed that his brothers would understand how God by his hand was bringing them deliverance; but they did not.)
26 Sequenti vero die apparuit illis litigantibus: et reconciliabat eos in pace, dicens: Viri, fratres estis: ut quid nocetis alterutrum?
"Next day he came upon two of them fighting, and tried to make peace between them. "‘Sirs,’ he said, ‘you are brothers. Why are you wronging each other?’
27 Qui autem injuriam faciebat proximo, repulit eum, dicens: Quis te constituit principem et judicem super nos?
"But the man who was ill-treating his neighbor thrust him aside, saying, "‘Who made you a magistrate and ruler over us?
28 Numquid interficere me tu vis, quemadmodum interfecisti heri Ægyptium?
"‘Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’
29 Fugit autem Moyses in verbo isto: et factus est advena in terra Madian, ubi generavit filios duos.
"Alarmed at this question, Moses fled from the land, and went to live in the land of Midian. There he became the father of two sons.
30 Et expletis annis quadraginta, apparuit illi in deserto montis Sina angelus in igne flammæ rubi.
"But at the end of forty years there appeared to him, in the desert of Mt. Sinai, an angel in a flame of fire, in a bush.
31 Moyses autem videns, admiratus est visum. Et accedente illo ut consideraret, facta est ad eum vox Domini, dicens:
"When Moses saw it he was astonished at the sight. But when he drew near to look, the voice of the Lord said,
32 Ego sum Deus patrum tuorum, Deus Abraham, Deus Isaac, et Deus Jacob. Tremefactus autem Moyses, non audebat considerare.
"I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. "And Moses trembled and dared not gaze.
33 Dixit autem illi Dominus: Solve calceamentum pedum tuorum: locus enim in quo stas, terra sancta est.
"And the Lord said. "Take off your sandals, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.
34 Videns vidi afflictionem populi mei qui est in Ægypto, et gemitum eorum audivi, et descendi liberare eos. Et nunc veni, et mittam te in Ægyptum.
"Truly I have seen the oppression of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their groans, and am come down to rescue them; and now, come, I will send you into Egypt.
35 Hunc Moysen, quem negaverunt, dicentes: Quis te constituit principem et judicem? hunc Deus principem et redemptorem misit, cum manu angeli qui apparuit illi in rubo.
"This Moses whom they refused when they said, Who made you to be a ruler and a judge? that same Moses we find God sending as a ruler and a redeemer by the hand in the bush.
36 Hic eduxit illos faciens prodigia et signa in terra Ægypti, et in rubro mari, et in deserto annis quadraginta.
"This was he who brought them out, after he had shown signs and wonders in the wilderness, for forty years.
37 Hic est Moyses, qui dixit filiis Israël: Prophetam suscitabit vobis Deus de fratribus vestris, tamquam me: ipsum audietis.
"It was this Moses who said to the Children of Israel, "God will raise up a Prophet for you from among your brothers, as he did 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 vitæ dare nobis.
"This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness along with the angel who spoke to him in Mt. Sinai, and with our ancestors to whom he gave living words to hand down to us.
39 Cui noluerunt obedire patres nostri: sed repulerunt, et aversi sunt cordibus suis in Ægyptum,
"To him our ancestors would not be obedient, but thrust him aside, and in their hearts turned back into Egypt.
40 dicentes ad Aaron: Fac nobis deos qui præcedant nos: Moyses enim hic, qui eduxit nos de terra Ægypti, nescimus quid factum sit ei.
"Said they to Aaron. "Make Gods for us who shall march in front of us! As for this Moses who led us forth out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has happened to him.
41 Et vitulum fecerunt in diebus illis, et obtulerunt hostiam simulacro, et lætabantur in operibus manuum suarum.
"And they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to this idol, and began to rejoice over what they had made with their hands.
42 Convertit autem Deus, et tradidit eos servire militiæ cæli, sicut scriptum est in libro prophetarum: Numquid victimas et hostias obtulistis mihi annis quadraginta in deserto, domus Israël?
"So God turned from them, and gave them up to the worship of the heavenly host, as it is written in the book of the Prophets. "Did you offer unto me slain beasts as sacrifices during the forty years in the wilderness, O House of Israel?
43 Et suscepistis tabernaculum Moloch, et sidus dei vestri Rempham, figuras quas fecistis adorare eas: et transferam vos trans Babylonem.
No, it was the Tabernacle of Moloch and the star-symbol of the god Rempha that you lifted up - the images which you made in order to worship them; so I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
44 Tabernaculum testimonii fuit cum patribus nostris in deserto, sicut disposuit illis Deus loquens ad Moysen, ut faceret illud secundum formam quam viderat.
"In the wilderness our ancestors had the Tabernacle of Testimony built, as he appointed who told Moses to make it according to the pattern he had seen.
45 Quod et induxerunt, suscipientes patres nostri cum Jesu in possessionem gentium quas expulit Deus a facie patrum nostrorum, usque in diebus David,
"That tabernacle was brought in by our ancestors, in their turn, when they under Joshua entered on the possession of the nations whom God thrust out before them, until the days of David.
46 qui invenit gratiam ante Deum, et petiit ut inveniret tabernaculum Deo Jacob.
"David obtained favor with God, and asked permission to find a dwelling-place for the God of Jacob.
47 Salomon autem ædificavit illi domum.
"But it was Solomon who built him a house.
48 Sed non Excelsus in manufactis habitat, sicut propheta dicit:
"Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made with hands; as said the prophet.
49 Cælum mihi sedes est: terra autem scabellum pedum meorum. Quam domum ædificabitis mihi? dicit Dominus: aut quis locus requietionis meæ est?
"The heaven is my throne, And the earth the footstool of my feet; What kind of house will you build for me? saith the Lord. Or what resting-place shall I have?
50 Nonne manus mea fecit hæc omnia?
Did not my hand make this universe?
51 Dura cervice, et incircumcisis cordibus et auribus, vos semper Spiritui Sancto resistitis: sicut patres vestri, ita et vos.
"Stiff-necked, uncircumcised in heart and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Ghost! As your fathers did, so do you.
52 Quem prophetarum non sunt persecuti patres vestri? et occiderunt eos qui prænuntiabant de adventu Justi, cujus vos nunc proditores et homicidæ fuistis:
"Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become -
53 qui accepistis legem in dispositione angelorum, et non custodistis.
"you who received the law, given through angels, and obeyed it not."
54 Audientes autem hæc, dissecabantur cordibus suis, et stridebant dentibus in eum.
As they heard these words they became furious and gnashed their teeth at him.
55 Cum autem esset plenus Spiritu Sancto, intendens in cælum, vidit gloriam Dei, et Jesum stantem a dextris Dei.
But he, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.
56 Et ait: Ecce video cælos apertos, et Filium hominis stantem a dextris Dei.
"Look, I see heaven open," he said, "And the Son of man standing at the right hand of God."
57 Exclamantes autem voce magna continuerunt aures suas, et impetum fecerunt unanimiter in eum.
With a loud outcry they stopped their ears, and rushed upon Stephen in a body,
58 Et ejicientes eum extra civitatem, lapidabant: et testes deposuerunt vestimenta sua secus pedes adolescentis qui vocabatur Saulus.
dragged him outside the city, and stoned him, the witnesses throwing off their outer garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
59 Et lapidabant Stephanum invocantem, et dicentem: Domine Jesu, suscipe spiritum meum.
So they stoned Stephen while he prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."
60 Positis autem genibus, clamavit voce magna, dicens: Domine, ne statuas illis hoc peccatum. Et cum hoc dixisset, obdormivit in Domino.
Then he knelt down and cried aloud, "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge."
