Acts 7 verses 27, 28 & 29

Acts 7 verses 27, 28 & 29

Acts 7 verse 27

But the one wrongdoing the neighbor thrust him away, saying, Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us?    (IB)

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Retranslation:  But the unjust one, offending The-One-Nearest to him, rejected Him, saying, Who made you First, over me?!  Who made you the Decider of What Is Right to me? I will be judge and ruler of what is self-evident to me!!

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NOTE:  In the above-translation, the wrongdoer is mortal ego. The Neighbor, or the One nearest to Moses, is Divine Consciousness, the true self, or Ego. The word epo (“saying” ) means to “say” in words or in writing. Thus, the words of rejection of the divine rule may have come Egypt’s learned textbooks. 

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wrongdoing 91 adikeo, from 94; to be unjust, i.e. (active) do wrong (morally, socially or physically):-----hurt, injure, be an offender, be unjust, (do, suffer, take) wrong.

94 adikos, from G1 (as a negative particle) and 1349; unjust; by extension wicked; by implication treacherous; specifically heathen:------unjust, unrighteous.

neighbor 4139 plesion, neuter of a derivative of pleas (near); (adverbially) close by; as noun, a neighbor, i.e. fellow (as man, countryman, Christian or friend):----near, neighbor.

thrust away 683 apotheomai or apothomai, from 575 and the middle of otheo or otho (to shove); to push off, figuratively to reject:----cast away, put away (from), thrust away (from).

him 846

saying 2036 epo, a primary verb; to speak or say (by word or writing):----answer, bid, bring word, call, command, grant, say (on), speak, tell. Compare 3004.

Who 5101

appointed 2525 kathistemi, from 2596 and 2476; to place down (permanent), i.e. (figuratively) to designate, constitute, convoy:-----appoint, be, conduct, make, ordain, set. 

you 4571

ruler 758 archon, present participle of 757; a first (in rank or power):----chief (ruler), magistrate, prince, ruler.

judge 1348 dikastes, from a derivative of 1349; a judger:----judge.

1349 dike, probably from 1166; right (as self-evident), i.e. justice (the principle, a decision, or its execution):-----judgement, punish, vengeance.

over 1909 epi, a primary preposition properly meaning superimposition (of time, place, order, etc.); as a relation of distribution [with the genitive], i.e. over, upon, etc.; of rest (with the dative) at, on, etc.; of direction (with the accusative) towards, upon, etc. In compounds it retains essentially the same import, at upon, etc. (literally or figuratively):----about (the times), above, after, against, among, as long as (touching), at, beside, have charge of, fore, before, wherefore, in (a place, as much as, the time of), into, (because) of, on (behalf of), upon, over, (by, for) the space of, through, throughout, to, unto, toward, with.

us 2248

Acts 7 verse 28

Do you not want to do away with me in the way you did away with the Egyptian yesterday?   (IB)

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Retranslation: Are You not determined to do away with me (false ego), my precious thoughts and favorite beliefs about the Land of Confinement, in the same manner that way You did away with thoughts of the Land of Confinement yesterday?

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not 3361

desire 2309 theleo or ethelo, apparently strengthened from the alternate form of 138; to determine (as an active option from subjective impulse; whereas 1014 properly denotes rather a passive acquiescence in objective considerations), i.e. choose or prefer (lit. or fig.); by implication to wish, i.e. be inclined to (sometimes adverbially gladly); impersonally for the future tense, to be about to; by Hebrew to delight in:-----desire, be disposed (forward), intend, list, love, mean, please, have rather, will (have), (be) willing, willingly. 

138 haireomai, probably akin to 142; to take for oneself, i.e. to prefer:-----choose. Some of the forms are borrowed from a cognate hellomai which is otherwise obsolete.

take away 337 anaireo, from 303 and (the active of) 138; to take up, i.e. adopt; by implication to take away (violently), i.e. abolish, murder:-----put to death, kill, slay, take away, take up.

me 3165

you 4771

(in) what 3739

way 5158 tropos, from the same as 5157; a turn, i.e. (by implication) mode or style (especially with preposition or relative prefixed as adverb like); figuratively deportment or character:----(even) as, conversation, [+ like] manner, (+ by any) means, way.

you

took away 337 (See above.)

Egyptian 124

yesterday 5504 chthes, of uncertain derivation; “yesterday”; by extension in time past or hitherto:------yesterday.

Acts 7 verse 29

And Moses fled at this word. And he became a sojourner in Midian land, where he fathered two sons.    (IB)

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Retranslation: And Moses shunned this subject of discourse and fled from the divine premise and its subsequent conclusions.  And he behaved himself as a stranger to God, living in contention, discord and strife with Her, as a resident-alien not subject to Her laws, and he conceived of two sons.

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NOTE: (two sons) Gershom [“For I am a stranger in a strange land];” and  Eliezer  [the “God of my father was mine help.”] (Ex. 18:4)

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NOTE: Realizing how far I am getting behind, I read ahead. I thought about what Stephen is saying and who he is talking to.  This passage above (Acts 7:29) is a rebuke to the high priest, et al, who are learned men. Like Moses, they resist reasoning on this point [God’s Allness]. Moses runs away from it. The high priests would rather kill the messenger.

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Moses 3475

fled 5343 pheugo, apparently a primary verb; to run away (lit. or fig.); by implication to shun; by analogy to vanish:----escape, flee (away).

at 1722

this 5129

word 3056 logos, from 3004; something said (including the thought); by implication a topic (subject of discourse); also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension a computation; specifically (with the art. in John) the Divine Expression (i.e. Christ):-----account, cause, communication, doctrine, fame, have to do, intent, matter, mouth, preaching, question, reason, reckon, remove, say, saying, shew, speaker, speech, talk, thing, none of these things move me, tidings, treatise, utterance, word, work.

3004 lego, a primary verb; properly to “lay” forth, i.e. (figuratively) relate (in words [usually of systematic or set discourse; whereas 2036 and 5346 generally refer to an individual expression or speech respectively; while 4483 is properly to break silence merely; and 2980 means an extended or random harangue]); by implication to mean:----ask, bid, boast, call, describe, give out, name, put forth, say (on), saying, shew, speak, tell, utter.

discourse n.(1828 Dict. def.): [L. discurro, dis + curro, to run.]

1. The act of understanding, by which it passes from premises to consequences; the act which connects propositions, and deduces conclusions from them.

discourse v.i. (ibid.)

1. To talk; to converse; but it expresses rather more formality than talk. He discourses with us an hour on the events of the war.
2. To communicate thoughts or ideas in a formal manner.
3. To reason; to pass from premises to consequences.

reasoning (ibid.): arguing; deducing inferences from premises; debating; discussing/

became 1096 ginomai, a prolonged and middle form of a primary verb; to cause to be (“gen” -erate). i.e. (reflexive) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literally, figuratively, intensively, etc.):-----arise, be assembled, be, become, befall, behave self, be brought (to pass), (be) come (to pass), continue, be divided, draw, be ended, fall, be finished, follow, be found, be fulfilled, God forbid, grow happen, have, be kept, be made, be married, be ordained to be, partake, pass, be performed, be published, require, seem, be showed, soon as it was, sound, be taken, be turned, use, wax, will, would, be wrought.

sojourner 3941 paroikos, from 3488 and 3624; having a home near, i.e. (as noun) a by-dweller (alien resident):----foreigner, sojourn, stranger.

in 1722

Midian 3099 Madian, of Hebrew origin [H4080], a region in Arabia:-----Madian

H4080 midyan, the same as H4079; Midjan, a son of Abraham; also his country and (collectively) his descendants:-----Midian, Midianite.

H4079 midyan, a variation for H4066; brawling, contention, contentious.

H4066 madon, from H1777; a contest or quarrel:-----brawling, contention, contentious, discord, strife. Compare H4079, H4090.

land 1093 ge, contracted from a primary word; soil; by extension a region, or the solid part or the whole of the terrene globe (including the occupants in each application):-----country, earth, earthly, ground, land, world.

where 3757 hou, genitive of 3739 as adverb; at which place, i.e. where:----where, wherein, whither, whithersoever.

fathered 1080 gennao, from a variation of 1085; to procreate (properly of the father, but by extension of the mother); figuratively to regenerate:-----bear, beget, be born, bring forth, conceive, be delivered of, gender, make, spring.

two 5207

sons 1417 

Ex. 2:21: And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter. Ex. 2:22: And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

E. 18:4: And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh: