7:36. He brought them out, doing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt
and in the Red Sea and in the desert, forty years.
7:37. This 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.
7:38. This 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.
7:39. Whom our fathers would not obey: but thrust him away and in their
hearts turned back into Egypt,
7:40. Saying 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.
7:41. And they made a calf in those days and offered sacrifices to the
idol and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
7:42. And 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?
7:43. And 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.
7:44. The 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.
7:45. Which 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,
Jesus. . .That is Josue, so called in Greek.
7:46. Who found grace before God and desired to find a tabernacle for
the God of Jacob.
7:47. But Solomon built him a house,
7:48. Yet the most High dwelleth not in houses made by hands, as the
prophet saith:
Dwelleth not in houses, etc. . .That is, so as to stand in need of
earthly dwellings, or to be contained, or circumscribed by them.
Though, otherwise by his immense divinity, he is in our houses; and
every where else; and Christ in his humanity dwelt in houses; and is
now on our altars.
7:49. Heaven 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?
7:50. Hath not my hand made all these things?
7:51. You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always
resist the Holy Ghost. As your fathers did, so do you also.
7:52. Which 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.
7:53. Who have received the law by the disposition of angels and have
not kept it.
7:54. Now hearing these things, they were cut to the heart: and they
gnashed with their teeth at him.
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