Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

Acts 7:10

ἧν ὁ Θεὸς μετʼ αὐτοῦ, cf. Genesis 39:2; Genesis 39:21; Genesis 39:23 (cf. Luke 1:28; Luke 1:66). ἐξείλετο … ἐκ : the same construction in Genesis 32:11; Exodus 3:8, and in N.T., Acts 12:11; Acts 26:17; Galatians 1:4; so in classical Greek. The middle force of the verb in the sense of causing to be saved is lost. χάρις, cf. Acts 2:41. The word means primarily, as the context shows, favour with man, cf. Genesis 39:21; but this χάρις was also a divine gift: ἔδωκεν. It is significant also that Pharaoh speaks of Joseph, Genesis 41:38, as a man in whom the spirit of God is, although no doubt the expression refers primarily to Joseph's skill in foretelling and providing against the famine. σοφίαν : in interpreting the king's decree, Genesis 41:25 ff. ἐναντίον, so in Genesis 39:21. βασ. Αἰγ.: without the article as in Hebrew (Blass), cf. Genesis 41:46; see also Winer-Schmiedel, p. 185. καὶ κατέστησεν, sc., Pharaoh, cf. change of subject as in Acts 7:4, in which Weiss also sees the hand of a reviser, but see above. The same word is used in Genesis 41:43, and cf. for ἡγούμενον the same chap., Acts 7:41, where the sense of the title is shown the exact word is used of Joseph in Sir 49:15 (ἡγούμενος ἀδελφῶν); in N.T. four times in Luke, see Luke 22:26; Acts 7:10; Acts 14:12; Acts 15:22; elsewhere only in Hebrews, cf. Hebrews 13:7; Hebrews 13:17; Hebrews 13:24.

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