Acts 7:46

ὃς εὗρε χάριν, cf. Luke 1:30, Hebraistic, cf. Genesis 6:8; it may be tacitly implied that had the temple been so important as the Jew maintained, God would have allowed the man who found favour before him to build it; on the phrase ἐνώπ. Κ. or Θεοῦ see above on Acts 4:10. ἠτήσατο εὗρειν, i.e., σκήνωμα, cf. Acts 3:3; ἠρώτα λαβεῖν, and instances in Wetstein, “asked to find,” not only “desired,” LXX, 2 Samuel 7:2 ff., 1 Chronicles 22:7; Psalms 81:5. σκήνωμα : perhaps used by David (as in the Psalm quoted) in his humility (Meyer); used of the temple in 1Es 1:50. David of course desired to build not a σκηνή, which already existed. τῷ Θεῷ Ἰακώβ, see critical notes.