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Acts 7:6
And God spake on this wise, that his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.
And God spake on this wise, that his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.
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...
Verse Acts 7:6. _THAT HIS SEED SHOULD SOJOURN IN A STRANGE LAND_] See Genesis 15:13, Genesis 15:14. _FOUR HUNDRED YEARS._] MOSES says,...
AND GOD SPAKE ON THIS WISE - In this manner, Genesis 15:13. HIS SEED - His posterity; his descendants. SHOULD SOJOURN - This means that they would have a “temporary residence there.” The word is used...
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...
The high priest said, "Is this so?" And Stephen said, "Men, brothers and fathers, listen to what I have to say. The God of glory appeared to Abraham our father when he was in Mesopotamia, before he li...
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...
SPAKE. Greek. _laleo._ App-121. Quoted from Genesis 15:13; Genesis 15:14. SOJOURN. be. stranger. Greek. _paroikos._ Here, Acts 7:29;...
_And God spake on this wise_ The words are substantially those which we find in Genesis 15:13-14. _four hundred years_ This number agrees with the number stated in Genesis; but in Exodus 12:40, and al...
ἘΛΆΛΗΣΕΝ ΔΈ. The words are in substance taken from Genesis 15:13-14, though here turned into an indirect narration. ἜΤΗ ΤΕΤΡΑΚΌΣΙΑ, _four hundred years_. This number agrees with that stated in Genesis...
Acts 7:1-53. STEPHEN’S DEFENCE...
_THE CALL OF ABRAHAM ACTS 7:1-8:_ The High Priest wanted to know if the things said about Stephen were true. Stephen's faith in Hebrew history was strong because he knew it was God at work. Stephen be...
ΈΛΆΛΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΛΑΛΈΩ говорить. ΈΣΤΑΙ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΕΙΜΊ, _см._ Acts 7:2. ΠΆΡΟΙΚΟΣ (G245) чужак, иноземец, временно живущий в стране. Перевод_евр._ 3ר, ger, тот, кто живет в...
SOJOURN IN A STRANGE LAND;— Some think that this is said in opposition to their sojourning as strangers in the land of Canaan, Hebrews 11:9 which was not _a strange land,_ but theirs by divine promise...
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 5...
And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years. AND GOD SPAKE ON THIS WISE. THAT...
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...
7:6 thus. (c-4) See Genesis 15:13-16 . them (d-19) Lit. 'it,' the seed....
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...
See Genesis 15:13; Genesis 15:16. FOUR HUNDRED YEARS] so Genesis 15:18 more precisely 430 years, Exodus 12:40. But there was another tradition w
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...
AND THAT THEY SHOULD BRING THEM INTO BONDAGE... — Here again there is another apparent discrepancy of detail. Taking the common computation, the interval between the covenant with Abraham and that wit...
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...
δέ : not in contrast to the fact just mentioned that Abraham had no child, but introducing a fuller account of God's promise. The quotation is from LXX, Genesis 15:13, with a few alterations; in LXX a...
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...
A Face Like an Angel Perhaps Paul reported to Luke the remarkable appearance of the face of Stephen. Luke told Theophilus that those in the council saw Stephen's face "as the face of an angel." The cl...
And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat [them] evil (e) four hundred years. (e) Four hundred years are cou...
For four hundred years, counting from the birth of Isaac, which was twenty-five years after the call and promises made to Abraham. It is certainly the Israelites were not four hundred years in Egypt....
EXPATRIATION 1-7. Despite the awful doom of the antediluvians, the people after the flood soon became terribly wicked. While they constantly ploughed up the bones of their antediluvian predecessors, f...
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...
6._Thy seed shall be a stranger. _Stephen putteth the Jews in mind in how miserable and reproachful an estate their fathers were in Egypt; and showeth that this their servitude, wherewith they were op...
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...
AND GOD SPAKE ON THIS WISE,.... The Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions read, "and God spake to him", and so does one of Beza's copies; and the Ethiopic version reads it both ways, God "said thus to Abr...
And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat _them_ evil four hundred years. Ver. 6. _Four hundred years_] Beg...
_And God spake, that his seed should sojourn in a strange land_ When God had brought Abraham into this country, he did not keep him and his posterity here till the time when they were to enter upon th...
SOJOURN IN A STRANGE LAND; Egypt. Genesis 15:13-16....
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...
BUT GOD SPOKE IN THIS WAY: THAT HIS DESCENDANTS WOULD DWELL IN A FOREIGN LAND, AND THAT THEY WOULD BRING THEM INTO BONDAGE AND OPPRESS _THEM_ FOUR HUNDRED YEARS. 1. God chose His words carefully. The...
And God spake on this wise, that his seed should sojourn in. strange land, and that they should bring them into bondage, and treat them ill, four hundred years. 'SOJOURN IN. STRANGE LAND..'- Genesis...
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...
SHOULD SOJOURN IN A STRANGE LAND, as men which dwell in houses that are not their own; which seem to contradict the promise mentioned in the foregoing verse; but it is only to make Abraham the more be...
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews if, before the priesthood of the Levitical law, there were not levites who were wont to offer sacrifices to God? For thus, after the above-mentioned patriarchs, was t...
Acts 7:6 But G1161 God G2316 spoke G2980 (G5656) way G3779 that G3754 his G846 descendants G4690 would...
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...
‘And God spoke in this vein, that his seed would sojourn in a strange land, and that they would bring them into bondage, and treat them ill, four hundred years.' Nor did God promise immediate possessi...
_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...
Acts 7:6. AND GOD SPAKE ON THIS WISE. Stephen here quotes the passage to which he had been previously alluding, with a very slight variation, from the LXX. of Genesis 15:14-15, the very words spoken b...
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...
ON THIS WISE (ουτως). A free quotation from Genesis 15:13.SHOULD SOJOURN (εστα παροικον). Shall be a sojourner, Παροικος (παρα, beside, οικος, home), one dwelling near one's home, but not of it, s...
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...
WILL LIVE IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY. Egypt. See Genesis 15:13-16. FOUR HUNDRED years. From the birth of Isaac to the Exodus. It was four hundred and thirty years from the calling of Abraham (Galatians 3:16...
_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...
_When his father was dead He removed him into this land._ THE DIFFICULTY AS TO THE DATE OF ABRAHAM’S MIGRATION Terah died at Haran at the age of two hundred and five (Genesis 11:32.). From Genesis 11...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 7:6 FOUR HUNDRED YEARS. That is, the time Israel spent in Egypt. ⇐ ⇔
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 7:2. Concerning what Stephen SAID in reply, Luke’s information may have been derived either from Paul, who probably was present on the occasion (Acts 26:10), and afterwards in...
_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...
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 12:40; Exodus 12:41; Galatians 3:17; Genesis 15:13; Genesis 1
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...
Genesis 15:13....
Observe here, The great trial which God put Abraham's faith unto; The Lord promised to give him the land of Canaan for. possession, but he gave him not. foot's breadth: He promised to give it unto his...