Acts 7:39

To whom our fathers would not obey,.... But often murmured against him, and were disobedient to him, and to the oracles he delivered to them, and so to God, whose oracles they were:

but thrust him…

Would not obey ... - This refers to what they said of him when he was in the mount, Exo 32:1, Exo 32:23. In their hearts turned ... - They wished to return to Egypt. They regretted that they had come…

In their hearts turned back again into Egypt - Became idolaters, and preferred their Egyptian bondage and their idolatry to the promised land and the pure worship of God. See the whole of these…

Stephen here proceeds in his story of Moses; and let any one judge whether these are the words of one that was a blasphemer of Moses or no; nothing could be spoken more honourably of him. Here is,

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to whom our fathers would not obey[be obedient], but thrust him from them For they said (Num 14:4), "Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt." This was after the return of the spies, when…