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Acts 7:11
Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Canaan and great affliction, and our fathers found no sustenance.
Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Canaan and great affliction, and our fathers found no sustenance.
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...
NOW THERE CAME A DEARTH - A famine, Genesis 41:54. AND CHANAAN - Jacob was living at that time in Canaan. FOUND NO SUSTENANCE - No food; no means of living....
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...
ABRAHAM AND THE PATRIARCHS. The High Priest invites Stephen to plead to the charge. Addressing his audience in the style used by Paul (Acts 22:1), Stephen speaks of the theophany to Abraham, placing i...
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...
"So he gave him the covenant of which circumcision was the sign. So he begat Isaac and he circumcised him on the eighth day. And Isaac begat Jacob and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs. The patriarchs...
THE LAND OF. Omit. SUSTENANCE. Greek. _chortasma._ Only here. Compare the verb _chortazo_. to fill. First occurance Matthew 5:6....
_Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Canaan_, &c. The oldest MSS. omit "the land of." _our fathers found no sustenance_ The noun in Greek is generally used of food for cattle rather...
ΤῊΝ ΑἼΓΥΠΤΟΝ with אABC. _Vulg_. ‘in universam Ægyptum.’ 11. ἘΦ' ὍΛΗΝ ΤῊΝ ΑἼΓΥΠΤΟΝ, _over all Egypt_. ΧΟΡΤΆΣΜΑΤΑ, _sustenance_. The word is generally used of food for cattle rather than men. See LXX....
Acts 7:1-53. STEPHEN’S DEFENCE...
_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...
ΗΫΡΙΣΚΟΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΕΥΡΊΣΚΩ (G2147) находить, ΧΌΡΤΑΣΜΑ (G5527) пища. Изначально корм животных, позже стало употребляться и для обозначения человеческой пищи (Bruce)....
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,...
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Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance. NOW THERE CAME A DEARTH OVER ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT AND CHANAAN, AND GREAT AF...
13 These synagogues were doubtless very lax in their adherence to the Jewish law and customs, yet they are not ashamed to charge Stephen with this, in order to inflame the Sanhedrin against him. The f...
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...
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...
(11-14) NOW THERE CAME A DEARTH... — So far as we can trace the sequence of thought, there seems the suggested inference that as those who, in the history of Joseph, had persecuted him, came afterward...
CHAPTER 15 ST. STEPHEN'S DEFENCE AND THE DOCTRINE OF INSPIRATION. Acts 6:12; Acts 7:1 ST. STEPHEN and St. Philip are the two prominent names among the primitive deacons. Stephen, however, much surp...
λιμὸς, _cf._ Luke 4:25, where ἐπί follows. χορτάσματα : sustenance, R.V., fodder, provender for their cattle, _cf._ Genesis 24:25; Genesis 24:32; Genes
STEPHEN'S DEFENSE: GOD'S FIRST CALLED ONES Acts 7:1-13 There are several touches in this eloquent apology which deserve notice. Acts 7:2: “The God of glory.” This chapter begins and ends with glory....
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...
JOSEPH TYPICAL OF CHRIST 9-16. The symbolism of Joseph is entirely in the royal line of Jesus. In his deep disgrace and humiliation, slavery and imprisonment, he emblematizes Christ in His first adven...
And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran, (3) And said unto him, Get thee out of thy co...
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...
11._There came a famine. _Hereby it appeareth that the deliverance of Joseph was such a benefit as was common to all the family of Jacob. For, seeing the famine drew on, (396) Joseph was sent before i...
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...
NOW THERE CAME A DEARTH OVER ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT, AND CANAAN,.... This dearth, or famine, is said to be in all lands, Genesis 41:54 though only Egypt and Canaan are mentioned here, because the histo...
_Now there came a dearth_ According to the prediction of Joseph, when the seven preceding years of extraordinary plenty were past, which he had also predicted; _over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan_...
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...
NOW A FAMINE AND GREAT TROUBLE CAME OVER ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT AND CANAAN, AND OUR FATHERS FOUND NO SUSTENANCE. 1. And then came a famine. Not only in Egypt but over Canaan as well. Nothing was growi...
Now there came. famine over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance. 'NOW THERE CAME'-Just as Joseph had predicted. 'OUR FATHERS'-Jacob and the remaining 11 s...
1-16 Stephen was charged as a blasphemer of God, and an apostate from the church; therefore he shows that he is a son of Abraham, and values himself on it. The slow steps by which the promise made to...
A DEARTH; this is mentioned, GENESIS 41:54, &c. AND GREAT AFFLICTION; as seldom any mischief comes alone, rapine and many diseases follow famine. FOUND NO SUSTENANCE; any coarse diet, grass or herbs....
Acts 7:11 Now G1161 famine G3042 and G2532 great G3173 trouble G2347 came G2064 (G5627) over G1909 all...
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...
‘Now there came a famine over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance, and when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent forth our fathers the first t...
EXCURSUS. On certain alleged Discrepancies in Stephen's Speech. A great deal has been written upon certain supposed inaccuracies which occur in the speech of Stephen, as given in the seventh chapter...
_First Division of the Speech,_ 2-16. _The Age of the Patriarchs Abraham and Joseph._ (a) Acts 7:2-8. _ABRAHAM THE FATHER OF THE FAITHFUL._ Stephen relates the well-known incident, fraught with such m...
_(b) Acts 7:9-16_. _Joseph._ Passing from the first appearance of the visible glory to the great ancestor, and the promise made by the Eternal to him, a wanderer without land and without a home, after...
FOUND NO SUSTENANCE (ουχ ηυρισκον χορτασματα). Imperfect active, kept on not finding.CHORTASMATA is fromCHORTAZO , originally to feed with grass (χορτος) or herbs. Old word, but only here in the...
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...
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...
THEN THERE WAS A FAMINE. _Genesis Chapter s 39-50_ tell about Joseph....
_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...
_And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt; but God was with him._ THE PATRIARCHS AND THEIR YOUNGER BROTHER This picture of patriarchal life is not a flattering one, and was “writte...
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 7:9. MOVED WITH ENVY, or _jealousy_, they, the patriarchs, sold Joseph INTO EGYPT—_i.e._, to be carried thither. Stephen condenses the Genesis narrative. Acts 7:10. The PHARAO...
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...
Genesis 41:54; Genesis 43:1; Genesis 45:11; Genesis 45:5; Genesis 45:6
Sustenance [χ ο ρ τ α σ μ α τ α]. For their cattle : fodder. See on shall be filled, Matthew 5:6....
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...