Acts 7:17

καθὼς : not “when” as in A.V., but “as” R.V., prout, quemadmodum, cf. Mark 4:33 : “in the degree that”: Felten thinks that it is temporal, as in 2Ma 1:31. τῆς ἐπαγγελίας, cf. Acts 2:33. ἧς : Attic attraction. ὤμοσεν : but if we read with R.V., etc., ὡμολόγησεν “vouchsafed,” so in classical Greek, cf. Jeremiah 51:25 (LXX), Matthew 14:7 (ὤμοσεν, a gloss from the LXX according to Wendt). ηὔξησεν ὁ λ. καὶ ἐπληθύνθη, cf. Exodus 1:7, so in a strange land the blessing was continued (Weiss).