Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 7:14
Seventy — five souls — So the seventy interpreters, (whom St. Stephen follows,) one son and a grandson of Manasseh, and three children of Ephraim, being added to the seventy persons mentioned Genesis 46:27.
Seventy — five souls — So the seventy interpreters, (whom St. Stephen follows,) one son and a grandson of Manasseh, and three children of Ephraim, being added to the seventy persons mentioned Genesis 46:27.
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 7:14. _THREESCORE AND FIFTEEN SOULS._] There are several difficulties here, which it is hoped the reader will find satisfactorily removed in the note on Genesis 46:20. It is well known tha...
ALL HIS KINDRED - His father and family, Genesis 45:17; Genesis 46:1. THREESCORE AND FIFTEEN SOULS - Seventy-five persons. There has been much perplexity felt in the explanation of this passage. In...
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...
SENT. Greek. _apostello._ App-174. CALLED... TO HIM. Greek. _metakaleomai._ Here, Acts 10:32; Acts 20:17; Acts 24:25. _meta_ in composition expresses the idea of change. THREESCORE, &C. This included
_threescore and fifteen souls_ This number is taken from the LXX. In the Hebrew (Genesis 46:8-27) the number is but seventy including Jacob himself. The five additional names given in the LXX. are Mac...
ἸΑΚῺΒ ΤῸΝ ΠΑΤΈΡΑ with אABCDE. _Vulg_. ‘Jacob patrem suum.’ Omit the second αὐτοῦ with אABCHP. 14. ἘΝ ΨΥΧΑΙ͂Σ ἙΒΔΟΜΉΚΟΝΤΑ ΠΈΝΤΕ, _threescore and fifteen souls_. The form of expression is a copy of 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...
ΆΠΟΣΤΕΊΛΑΣ _aor. act. part. (сопутств.) от_ ΆΠΟΣΤΈΛΛΩ (G649) посылать, ΜΕΤΕΚΑΛΈΣΑΤΟ _aor. ind. med. от_ ΜΕΤΑΚΑΛΈΟΜΑΙ (G3333) призывать, созывать,...
THREESCORE AND FIFTEEN SOULS.— See the notes on Genesis 20:18....
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 9...
Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls. THEN SENT JOSEPH, AND CALLED HIS FATHER JACOB TO HIM, AND ALL HIS KINDRED, THREESCORE AND F...
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...
7:14 seventy-five (f-16) Quoted from the LXX....
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...
THREESCORE AND FIFTEEN SOULS] Stephen follows LXX of Genesis 46:27; Exodus 1:5. The Hebrew makes the number seventy....
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...
THREESCORE AND FIFTEEN SOULS. — Seventy is given as the number, including Jacob, Joseph, and his sons, in Genesis 46:27; Exodus 1:5; Deuteronomy 10:22. Here, however, Stephen had the authority of the...
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...
μετεκαλέσατο : four times in Acts, and nowhere else in N.T., _cf._ Acts 10:32; Acts 20:17; Acts 24:25, only once in LXX, H. and R., _cf._ Hosea 11:2, A; so εἰσκ
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...
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...
14.Whereas he saith that Jacob came into Egypt with seventy-five souls, it agreeth not with the words of Moses; for Moses maketh mention of seventy only. Jerome thinketh that Luke setteth not down, wo...
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...
THEN SENT JOSEPH,.... Gifts and presents to his father, and wagons, to fetch down him and his family into Egypt, Genesis 45:21. AND CALLED HIS FATHER JACOB TO HIM, AND ALL HIS KINDRED, THREESCORE AND...
THREESCORE AND FIFTEEN; seventy-five. The number stated in Genesis as coming with Jacob into Egypt is sixty-six. Jacob, with Joseph and his two sons who were already there, and the five grandsons of J...
THEN SENT JOSEPH AND CALLED HIS FATHER JACOB TO HIM AND ALL HIS KINDRED, THREESCORE AND FIFTEEN SOULS....
The story of Jacob and Joseph:...
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...
THEN JOSEPH SENT AND CALLED HIS FATHER JACOB AND ALL HIS RELATIVES TO _HIM,_ SEVENTY-FIVE PEOPLE. 1. All the family of Jacob - sons and a daughter, their spouses, all their children, and all the rela...
And Joseph sent, and called to him Jacob his father, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls. 'threescore and fifteen souls'-'seventy-five persons in all' (NASV). Point to Note: Critics ha...
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...
ALL HIS KINDRED; his affinity, and not consanguinity only, which may be the reason why, though in GENESIS 46:26 it is said, that all THE SOULS THAT CAME WITH JACOB INTO EGYPT WERE THREESCORE AND SIX,...
Acts 7:14 Then G1161 Joseph G2501 sent G649 (G5660) called G3333 (G5668) his G846 father G3962 Jacob...
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 Joseph sent, and called to him Jacob his father, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.' The result was that those selected of the people of Jacob responded to the call of their Deliv...
_(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...
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...
Acts 7:14. AND CALLED HIS FATHER JACOB, AND ALL HIS KINDRED, THREESCORE AND FIFTEEN SOULS. Another memory of Divine favour which Stephen knew would be very grateful to the zealous Jews who sat as judg...
THREE-SCORE AND FIFTEEN SOULS (εν ψυχαις εβδομηκοντα πεντε). Stephen follows the LXX which counts some grandchildren of Joseph and so makes it 75 whereas Genesis 46:26 has 66 and then the next vers...
KINDRED (_ See Scofield) - (Genesis 46:26). There is no real contradiction. The "house of Jacob" numbered seventy but the "kindred" would include the wives of Jacob's sons. _...
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...
SO JOSEPH SENT A MESSAGE. Joseph, the rejected brother, becomes the savior of his kinfolk! THERE WERE SEVENTY-FIVE PEOPLE IN ALL. Stephen quotes from the Septuagint [Greek translation of the Old Testa...
_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 7:14 When Stephen cites the number of Jacob’s KINDRED at SEVENTY-FIVE instead of seventy, he follows the Greek translation of the OT rather than Hebrew text 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 7:9. 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...
_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...
1 Chronicles 2:5; 1 Chronicles 2:6; Deuteronomy 10:22; Genesis 45:9;...
Threescore and fifteen. Lit., "in [ε ν] threescore and fifteen;" the idiom expressing the sum in which all the individuals were included....
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...
Why does this text say “seventy-five people” when Exodus 1:5 says there were “seventy persons”? PROBLEM: According to Exodus 1:5 there were only 70 descendants who went down into Egypt with Jacob. But...