Greek Key Terms:
Context: "This Moses, whom they rejected... God sent as both ruler and deliverer... This is the Moses who said, 'God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers.'" Stephen's speech demonstrates the pattern of Israel rejecting their deliverers—Moses initially, Joseph before him, now Jesus. The rejection pattern is not a failure of God's plan but part of it.
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Christological Connection: Stephen's speech provides crucial interpretive insight: the rejection pattern is typological. The emphatic "THIS Moses" (οὗτος ὁ Μωϋσῆς) mirrors "THIS Jesus" whom they crucified. Joseph was rejected by his brothers, then became their savior. Moses was rejected ("Who made you ruler?"), fled, then returned as deliverer. The prophets were rejected and killed. Now Jesus, the Prophet like Moses, has been rejected and crucified—but this very rejection accomplishes salvation, and He will return as Judge. Stephen's point is devastating: Israel is not rejecting a stranger but repeating their ancestral pattern. Moses himself prophesied that a greater Prophet would come and must be heeded (Deuteronomy 18:15); rejecting this Prophet brings destruction (v. 23). The pattern of first-rejected-then-exalted is central to biblical typology: what men meant for evil, God means for good.
Connection Method(s): Typology (Providential, Backward-Looking), Redemptive-Historical Progression — Stephen identifies the rejection-then-exaltation pattern from Joseph through Moses to Christ as providential typology, demonstrating God's redemptive-historical pattern of achieving salvation through the very ones His people reject.
Trajectory: Moses
Trajectory Table: 104 - Moses (The Prophet Like Unto Me)