Bede : And you took up the tabernacle of Moloch. Although, he says, you appeared to bring victims and sacrifices to the tabernacle of the Lord, yet in your whole intention of heart, you embraced the shrine of Moloch. But Moloch, or Melchom, as it is often read, is the idol of the Ammonites, which is interpreted as your king. — Commentary on Acts Bede : And the star of your god Remphan. You have forsaken (he says) the true and living God, and you have taken the star of Remphan, that is, your own creation, as God. But it signifies Lucifer, to whose worship the Saracen people were enslaved in honor of Venus. And because Remphan (as I said) means either your creation or your rest, the prophet subsequently added, and said: — Commentary on Acts Bede : The figures which you have made to worship them. It is understood, you have adopted them conjointly. — Commentary on Acts Bede : And I will carry you beyond Babylon. Because of these (he says) sacrileges, you will be taken captive not only into Babylon but also beyond Babylon. Nor is the first martyr to be thought erring because he said beyond Babylon instead of beyond Damascus, as written in the prophet (Amos V). He considered the understanding more than the word, because they were led into Babylon beyond Damascus, just as beyond Babylon. — Commentary on Acts John Chrysostom : "Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan: images which ye made to worship them." The cause of sacrifices! "And I will carry you away beyond Babylon." Even the captivity, an impeachment of their wickedness! — Homily on Acts 17 Oecumenius : Moloch, or Molchom. This is an idol of the Moabites, a stone having a transparent and extraordinary appearance in the form of the morning star [ἑωσφόρου] on the tip of the forehead. Rephan is a form of darkness. For when Moses had ascended the mountain, they fashioned a calf and bowed down to the worship of the stars, and having made a shrine they set up the image which they called Moloch. Moloch, if one interprets it, is their king; Rephan, however, is darkness or blindness. "You have taken up the tabernacle of Moloch," that is, of your king; but who is that? The star of your god, Rephan, which also was for you to your blindness. For your hearts have been darkened. [CYRIL: ON THE PROPHET AMOS] — Commentary on Acts Oecumenius : And because you filled up the madness of the Moabites, which is the region near Damascus, therefore you depart beyond Damascus, that is, into Babylon. [CYRIL] — Commentary on Acts Oecumenius : And although the prophet says "beyond Damascus" (for so the Septuagint translation has it), yet blessed Stephen says "beyond Babylon," following the Hebrew edition, or because Damascus is the boundary of the Syrians' region, namely Babylon. — Commentary on Acts