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Acts 7:18
till another king arose, which knew not Joseph The oldest authorities have, till there arose another king over Egypt, &c.
till another king arose, which knew not Joseph The oldest authorities have, till there arose another king over Egypt, &c.
ACTS 7:18 @evpV Ai;gupton# {C} On the one hand, if the shorter reading be regarded as original, it is easy to see how Exodus 1:8 in the Septuagint (avne,sth de. basileu.j e[teroj evpV Ai;gupton( o]j...
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 7:18. _WHICH KNEW NOT JOSEPH._] That is, did not approve of him, of his mode of governing the kingdom, nor of his people, nor of his God. Exodus 1:8, Exodus 1:8....
TILL ANOTHER KING AROSE - This is quoted from Exodus 1:8. What was the “name” of this king is not certainly known. The “common” name of all the kings of Egypt was “Pharaoh,” as “Caesar” became the com...
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...
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...
"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...
ANOTHER. Greek. _heteros._ App-124. KING. See App-188. AROSE. Greek. _anistemi._ App-178. KNEW. Greek. _oida._ App-132....
ἘΠ' ΑἼΓΥΠΤΟΝ added after ἝΤΕΡΟΣ with אABC. _Vulg_. ‘in Ægypto.’ 18. ΒΑΣΙΛΕῪΣ ἝΤΕΡΟΣ ἘΠ' ΑἼΓΥΠΤΟΝ, _another king over Egypt_....
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...
ΑΝΈΣΤΗ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΝΊΣΤΗΜΙ (G450) подниматься, ΉΔΕΙ _plperf. ind. act. от_ ΟΪ́ΔΑ (G1492) знать, def. perf. со _знач. praes._ Plperf. — _impf._...
ANOTHER KING— Probably of another family....
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...
Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph. TILL ANOTHER KING AROSE, [ heteros (G2087), not allos (G243)] - q.d., 'a king of a different sort,' pointing to another dynasty (as Lechler notes)....
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...
KNEW NOT JOSEPH] i.e. knew not the history of Joseph and of his great services to his adopted country....
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...
WHICH KNEW NOT JOSEPH. — The idiom was originally a Hebrew one, for “not remembering, not caring for;” but as the words are quoted from the LXX. they do not affect the question as to the language in w...
_Cf._ Exodus 1:8, and Jos., _Ant._, ii., 9, 1. After ἕτερος add ἐπʼ Αἰγ., see above. ἕτερος not ἄλλος, probably meaning the native sovereign after the expulsion of the Shepherd Kings, “Joseph,” B.D. 2...
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...
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...
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...
TILL ANOTHER KING AROSE,.... In, or over Egypt, as the Alexandrian copy, and others, and the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions read; in Exodus 1:8 it is a new king; the Jewish writers are d...
_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 birth and youth of Moses:...
TILL ANOTHER KING AROSE WHICH KNEW NOT 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...
TILL ANOTHER KING AROSE WHO DID NOT KNOW JOSEPH. 1. Memories fade rapidly. The heroics of Joseph in saving the nation of Egypt from starvation are now just a paragraph in a history book. 2. His fami...
till there arose another king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph. 'ANOTHER KING'-'"Another" is heteros, "different" rather than allos, "another of the same kind"' (Reese p. 280). This appears to be not...
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...
These words are taken from the Septuagint, EXODUS 1:8....
Acts 7:18 till G891 G3739 another G2087 king G935 arose G450 (G5627) who G3739 not G3756 know...
‘But as the time of the promise drew near which God had vouchsafed to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, until there arose another king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.' As a result...
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...
_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...
Acts 7:18. TILL ANOTHER KING AROSE, WHICH KNEW NOT JOSEPH. This new king was Amasis or Ahmes, the first of the eighteenth dynasty, or that of the Diospolitans from Thebes. It is probable that this opp...
ANOTHER KING (βασιλευς ετερος). A different kind of king also, probably a king of the new dynasty after the shepherd kings had been expelled from Egypt.WHO KNEW NOT JOSEPH (ος ουκ ηιδε τον Ιωσηφ)...
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 7:18. 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...
_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 1:8...
Another [ε τ ε ρ ο ς]. Not merely a successor, but a monarch of a different character. Knew not. As sixty years had elapsed since Joseph's death, and a new dynasty was coming to the throne, this may...
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...
Another king — Probably of another family....