Acts 7:39 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Their glory being in their fathers, St. Stephen reminds them that many of them rebelled against God and his servant Moses; as they (their posterity) now were rebellions against Christ, who came to save them, as Moses before had done; but from a greater bondage, and by more valuable means. In their hearts turned back again into Egypt; not so much towards that country, or food they had there, (garlick and onions), as towards their idolatry and superstition; as in the following verse appears.

Acts 7:39

39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,