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ACTS 7:19 @h`mw/n# {C}
On the one hand, external evidence tends to favor the reading without
h`mw/n. On the other hand, the presence of h`mw/n four words earlier
with to. ge,noj may well have prompte...
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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...
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Verse Acts 7:19. _THE SAME DEALT SUBTILTY_] ουτος
κατασοφισαμενος, A word borrowed from the Septuagint,
who thus translate the Hebrew נהחכמה לו _nithchokmah lo_, _let
us deal wisely with it_, i.e. wi...
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DEALT SUBTILLY - He acted deceitfully; he used fraud. The cunning or
deceitful attempt which is referred to, is his endeavour to weaken and
destroy the Jewish people by causing their male children to...
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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...
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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THE SAME. This one.
DEALT SUBTILLY WITH. Greek. _katasophizomai._ Only here. In Septuagint
"deal wisely", Exodus 1:10.
CAST OUT. caused to he exposed (Greek. _ekthetos._ Only here).
YOUNG CHILDREN....
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_The same dealt subtilly with our kindred_[RACE] The word is from the
LXX. (Exodus 1:10), "Let us deal wisely (i.e. craftily) with them" are
the words of the new king.
_and evil entreated our fathers_...
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Omit ἡμῶν after ΠΑΤΈΡΑΣ with אBD.
ΤᾺ ΒΡΈΦΗ ἜΚΘΕΤΑ with אABC.
19. ΚΑΤΑΣΟΦΙΣΆΜΕΝΟΣ ΤῸ ΓΈΝΟΣ ἩΜΩ͂Ν,
_dealt subtilly with our race and_, &c. The expression is from the
LXX. (Exodus 1:10), κατασοφισώμεθα...
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Acts 7:1-53. STEPHEN’S DEFENCE...
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_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...
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ΚΑΤΑΣΟΦΙΣΆΜΕΝΟΣ _aor. med. (dep.) part. от_
ΚΑΤΑΣΟΦΊΖΟΜΑΙ (G2686) обрабатывать,
мудро обращаться. Имеется в виду
искусное или обманное обращение,
обрабатывать, применяя хитрость и
обман, получать выго...
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SO THAT THEY CAST OUT THEIR YOUNG CHILDREN,— _By causing their
infants to be exposed._ Heylin and Doddridge....
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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,...
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See notes on verse 17...
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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...
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SO THAT] rather, 'that they might cast out their babes,' etc....
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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...
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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...
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SO THAT THEY CAST OUT THEIR YOUNG CHILDREN. — Literally, _to make
their children cast out so that they should not be brought forth
alive._ The latter verb is used in the LXX. narrative (Exodus 1:17)....
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κατασοφισάμενος : in Exodus 1:10 we have the same verb
“let us deal wisely with them” here translated “deal
subtilly”; Vulgate, “circumveniens,” _cf._ Rhemish version:
“circumventing our stock” (γένος...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The same (i) dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our
fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they
might not live.
(i) He devised a subtle plan against our stoc...
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_Dealing craftily, circumventing craftily, afflicting, and
endeavouring to extirpate the race of the Israelites. (Witham)_...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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19._Dealt subtilely. _The old interpreter did not translate this
amiss, to _deceive. _(406) For Stephen meaneth that the king of Egypt
did craftily invent new shifts and wicked pretenses, that he migh...
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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...
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THE SAME DEALT SUBTILLY WITH OUR KINDRED,.... See Exodus 1:10 he took
crafty, and yet cruel methods, to diminish the children of Israel, and
to humble them; weakening their strength by labour, that th...
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And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God
was with him,
10 And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour
and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egyp...
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_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;...
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The birth and youth of Moses:...
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THE SAME DEALT SUBTLY WITH OUR KINDRED, AND EVIL ENTREATED OUR
FATHERS, SO THAT THEY CAST OUT THEIR YOUNG CHILDREN, TO THE END THEY
MIGHT NOT LIVE....
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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...
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THIS MAN DEALT TREACHEROUSLY WITH OUR PEOPLE, AND OPPRESSED OUR
FOREFATHERS, MAKING THEM EXPOSE THEIR BABIES, SO THAT THEY MIGHT NOT
LIVE.
1. A new king does not see the Israelites as a wonderful sav...
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The same dealt craftily with our race, and ill-treated our fathers,
that they should cast out their babes to the end they might not live.
'CRAFTILY'-'Lit., to employ cunning against' (Vincent p. 478)...
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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...
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Pharaoh resolves to _deal_ (as he thought) _wisely, _ EXODUS 1:10, and
it is acknowledged that the Egyptians dealt subtilly with them, PSALMS
105:25. For they do not at once destroy them, which might...
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Acts 7:19 man G3778 treacherously G2686 (G5666) our G2257 people G1085
oppressed G2559 (G5656) our G2257 forefathers...
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‘The same dealt craftily with our race, and ill-treated our fathers,
so that they cast out their babes with the purpose that they might not
live.'
The result was that affliction arose and attempts wer...
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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...
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Acts 7:19. THE SAME DEALT SUBTILELY WITH OUR KINDRED, AND EVIL
ENTREATED OUR FATHERS, SO THAT THEY CAST OUT THEIR YOUNG CHILDREN, TO
THE END THEY MIGHT NOT LIVE. Meyer and Hackett understand the langu...
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_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...
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DEALT SUBTILLY
(κατασοφισαμενος). First aorist middle participle of
κατασοφιζομα, late compound (κατα and σοφιζω,
old verb, to make wise, to become wise, then to play the sophist),
perfective use o...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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18-21. IT WAS AT THIS TIME THAT MOSES WAS BORN. _Exodus Chapter s 1-2_
tells about this....
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_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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Exodus 1:9; Psalms 105:25; Psalms 129:1; Psalms 83:4; Psalms 83:5;...
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Dealt subtilely [κ α τ α σ ο φ ι σ α μ ε ν ο ς]. Only
here in New Testament. Lit., to employ cunning against. See on sofov,
wise, James 3:13.
So that they cast out [τ ο υ π ο ι ε ι ν ε κ θ ε τ α].
Lit...
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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...
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Exposed — Cast out to perish by hunger or wild beasts....