George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Acts 7:19
Dealing craftily, circumventing craftily, afflicting, and endeavouring to extirpate the race of the Israelites. (Witham)
Dealing craftily, circumventing craftily, afflicting, and endeavouring to extirpate the race of the Israelites. (Witham)
ACTS 7:3-51 In addition to several direct quotations from the Septuagint, Stephen’s speech consists of a series of allusions to and summaries of Israelitish history. In these phrases drawn from the O...
ACTS 7:19 @h`mw/n# {C} On the one hand, external evidence tends to favor the reading without h`mw/n. On the other hand, the presence of h`mw/n four words earlier with to. ge,noj may well have prompte...
Verse Acts 7:19. _THE SAME DEALT SUBTILTY_] ουτος κατασοφισαμενος, A word borrowed from the Septuagint, who thus translate the Hebrew נהחכמה לו _nithchokmah lo_, _let us deal wisely with it_, i.e. wi...
DEALT SUBTILLY - He acted deceitfully; he used fraud. The cunning or deceitful attempt which is referred to, is his endeavour to weaken and destroy the Jewish people by causing their male children to...
CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The Address of Stephen (Acts 7:1)._ 2. The Martyrdom of Stephen (Acts 7:54). This is the largest chapter in this book and concludes the first section. Stephen is the chosen instrumen...
MOSES. Stephen describes the growth of the people, the change of ruler and his oppression, as in Exodus 1. ACTS 7:20. FAIR UNTO GOD (_mg._): from Exodus 2:2; Philo and Josephus speak of the beauty o...
"When the time for the fulfillment of the promise which God had told to Abraham drew near, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt, until there arose another king in Egypt who had no knowledge of...
STEPHEN'S DEFENCE (Acts 7:1-7) When Oliver Cromwell was outlining the education he thought necessary for his son Richard, he said, "I would have him know a little history." It was to the lesson of hi...
THE SAME. This one. DEALT SUBTILLY WITH. Greek. _katasophizomai._ Only here. In Septuagint "deal wisely", Exodus 1:10. CAST OUT. caused to he exposed (Greek. _ekthetos._ Only here). YOUNG CHILDREN....
_The same dealt subtilly with our kindred_[RACE] The word is from the LXX. (Exodus 1:10), "Let us deal wisely (i.e. craftily) with them" are the words of the new king. _and evil entreated our fathers_...
Acts 7:1-53. STEPHEN’S DEFENCE...
Omit ἡμῶν after ΠΑΤΈΡΑΣ with אBD. ΤᾺ ΒΡΈΦΗ ἜΚΘΕΤΑ with אABC. 19. ΚΑΤΑΣΟΦΙΣΆΜΕΝΟΣ ΤῸ ΓΈΝΟΣ ἩΜΩ͂Ν, _dealt subtilly with our race and_, &c. The expression is from the LXX. (Exodus 1:10), κατασοφισώμεθα...
_THE JEWISH NATION AND THE LAND OF EGYPT ACTS 7:9-43:_ The patriarchs sold Joseph into Egypt. Envy caused Joseph's brothers to sell him into Egypt as a slave. God was with Joseph and gave him favor wi...
ΚΑΤΑΣΟΦΙΣΆΜΕΝΟΣ _aor. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΚΑΤΑΣΟΦΊΖΟΜΑΙ (G2686) обрабатывать, мудро обращаться. Имеется в виду искусное или обманное обращение, обрабатывать, применяя хитрость и обман, получать выго...
SO THAT THEY CAST OUT THEIR YOUNG CHILDREN,— _By causing their infants to be exposed._ Heylin and Doddridge....
c. Stephen's defence. Acts 7:1-53. Acts 7:1 And the high priest said, Are these things so? Acts 7:2 And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken: The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham,...
See notes on verse 17...
The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live. THE SAME DEALT SUBTILLY (OR CUNNINGLY) WITH OUR...
18 It is probable that the lot of Israel in Egypt was pleasant under the dynasty which was acquainted with Joseph, who made these rulers absolute masters in Egypt, for he got for them all the silver a...
DEFENCE AND MARTYRDOM OF STEPHEN 1-53. Speech of Stephen. There is every reason to believe that this speech was really delivered by St. Stephen, and not composed by St. Luke; for, (1) the speech does...
SO THAT] rather, 'that they might cast out their babes,' etc....
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 7 STEPHEN’S SPEECH, PART 1: ABRAHAM’S *FAITH IN GOD, 7:1-8 V1 The *high priest asked Stephen, ‘Is this true?’ V2 Stephen replied, ‘Listen, brot...
SO THAT THEY CAST OUT THEIR YOUNG CHILDREN. — Literally, _to make their children cast out so that they should not be brought forth alive._ The latter verb is used in the LXX. narrative (Exodus 1:17)....
κατασοφισάμενος : in Exodus 1:10 we have the same verb “let us deal wisely with them” here translated “deal subtilly”; Vulgate, “circumveniens,” _cf._ Rhemish version: “circumventing our stock” (γένος...
STEPHEN'S DEFENSE: THE DELIVERER FROM BONDAGE Acts 7:14-29 Moses, we are here told, was “mighty in words;” that is, in eloquence as well as in deeds. This confirms the statement of the Jewish histori...
The charge against Stephen was that he had spoken against the Temple and the Law. His reply consisted of a masterly review of the history of the nation from the calling of Abraham to the rejection of...
Life In Egypt Abraham's great-grandson, Joseph, was sold into Egypt because of the jealousy of his own brothers. Coffman sees this incident as prefiguring the rejection of God's intended deliverer on...
The same (i) dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live. (i) He devised a subtle plan against our stoc...
MOSES TYPICAL OF CHRIST 17-40. While Joseph so beautifully and vividly emblematizes King Jesus, both in His humiliation and in His glory, Moses equally grandly emblematizes the mediatorial Christ, him...
But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, (18) Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph. (19) The same dealt subtlety w...
First of all we see man in an entirely new place man risen from among the dead and ascending to heaven. The risen ascended man, Christ Jesus, is the new starting-point of the dealings of God. The firs...
19._Dealt subtilely. _The old interpreter did not translate this amiss, to _deceive. _(406) For Stephen meaneth that the king of Egypt did craftily invent new shifts and wicked pretenses, that he migh...
Stephen, [11] as far as we are told, had not known the Lord during His life on earth. Certainly he was not appointed, like the apostles, to be a witness of that life. He was simply the instrument of t...
THE SAME DEALT SUBTILLY WITH OUR KINDRED,.... See Exodus 1:10 he took crafty, and yet cruel methods, to diminish the children of Israel, and to humble them; weakening their strength by labour, that th...
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him, 10 And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egyp...
_When the time of the promise drew nigh_ That is, the time for the accomplishment of the promise; _which God had sworn to Abraham_ Concerning the multiplication of his seed; see note on Genesis 22:16;...
THE SAME DEALT SUBTLY WITH OUR KINDRED, AND EVIL ENTREATED OUR FATHERS, SO THAT THEY CAST OUT THEIR YOUNG CHILDREN, TO THE END THEY MIGHT NOT LIVE....
The birth and youth of Moses:...
The high priest only asks the question, "Are these things so?" Then God provides room for Stephen to speak without interruption for some time. This stands in striking contrast to the way in which the...
THIS MAN DEALT TREACHEROUSLY WITH OUR PEOPLE, AND OPPRESSED OUR FOREFATHERS, MAKING THEM EXPOSE THEIR BABIES, SO THAT THEY MIGHT NOT LIVE. 1. A new king does not see the Israelites as a wonderful sav...
The same dealt craftily with our race, and ill-treated our fathers, that they should cast out their babes to the end they might not live. 'CRAFTILY'-'Lit., to employ cunning against' (Vincent p. 478)...
17-29 Let us not be discouraged at the slowness of the fulfilling of God's promises. Suffering times often are growing times with the church. God is preparing for his people's deliverance, when their...
Pharaoh resolves to _deal_ (as he thought) _wisely, _ EXODUS 1:10, and it is acknowledged that the Egyptians dealt subtilly with them, PSALMS 105:25. For they do not at once destroy them, which might...
Acts 7:19 man G3778 treacherously G2686 (G5666) our G2257 people G1085 oppressed G2559 (G5656) our G2257 forefathers...
FROM ABRAHAM TO THE PROPHET LIKE MOSES - REPLY TO THE CHARGE OF BLASPHEMY AGAINST GOD AND MOSES (7:2-43). The only way Stephen had of replying to charges of blasphemy when he had no supporting witness...
‘The same dealt craftily with our race, and ill-treated our fathers, so that they cast out their babes with the purpose that they might not live.' The result was that affliction arose and attempts wer...
Acts 7:19. THE SAME DEALT SUBTILELY WITH OUR KINDRED, AND EVIL ENTREATED OUR FATHERS, SO THAT THEY CAST OUT THEIR YOUNG CHILDREN, TO THE END THEY MIGHT NOT LIVE. Meyer and Hackett understand the langu...
_Second Division of the Speech,_ 17-36. _The Age of Moses._ The second part of the defence commences with the long-looked-for approach of the time when ‘the promise,' now centuries old, should be fulf...
DEALT SUBTILLY (κατασοφισαμενος). First aorist middle participle of κατασοφιζομα, late compound (κατα and σοφιζω, old verb, to make wise, to become wise, then to play the sophist), perfective use o...
Acts 6; Acts 7 Stephen. From the history of Stephen we learn: I. That fidelity to truth provokes antagonism; holiness and sin are mutually repellent; love and selfishness are the opposites of each o...
Acts 7:14. Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls. So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers, and were carried over...
CONTENTS: Address of Stephen before the council. Stephen martyred. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Stephen, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Pharaoh, Moses, Pharaoh's daughter, Aaron, Solomon, Sau...
The scope and design of St. Stephen's defence before the council will be better understood, if it be properly analyzed. The rulers construed his defence to import, that the glory of their temple shoul...
18-21. IT WAS AT THIS TIME THAT MOSES WAS BORN. _Exodus Chapter s 1-2_ tells about this....
_Then said the high priest, Are these things so?_ THE HIGH PRIEST AND HIS QUESTION This functionary was probably Theophilus, son-in-law of Caiaphas. The ex-officio president of the council called for...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 7:1 Stephen’s defense is the longest speech in Acts 1:1. It is a selective summary of OT history that turned the charges on his accusers: _they_ were the ones disobeying God because...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 7:1. The high priest’s question, ARE THESE THINGS SO? analogous to that put to Christ (Matthew 26:62), was equivalent to a modern “Guilty or not guilty?” Acts 7:2. Concerning...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 7:18. ANOTHER KING WHICH KNEW NOT JOSEPH.—This was Aahmes, the first monarch of the eighteenth dynasty, “a prince of great force of character, brave, active, energetic, libera...
EXPOSITION ACTS 7:1 _And the high priest said _for then _said the high priest, _A.V. The high priest spoke as president of the Sanhedrim (see Acts 9:1. Acts 9:1 and...
Let's turn tonight to Acts chapter 7. In the early church when a dispute arose among the Grecians--that is, those Jews of the Grecian culture. They were actually Jews, but they had followed the Grecia...
Exodus 1:9; Psalms 105:25; Psalms 129:1; Psalms 83:4; Psalms 83:5;...
Dealt subtilely [κ α τ α σ ο φ ι σ α μ ε ν ο ς]. Only here in New Testament. Lit., to employ cunning against. See on sofov, wise, James 3:13. So that they cast out [τ ο υ π ο ι ε ι ν ε κ θ ε τ α]. Lit...
STEPHEN'S APOLOGY Acts 7:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS After charges against Stephen had been placed, the High Priest with a show of honor, said, "Are these things so?" Stephen then stood forth and made his...
Exposed — Cast out to perish by hunger or wild beasts....