Acts 7:12

Act 7:12. Ἰακὼβ, Jacob) Even believers experience the common miseries of life, but to their own good.

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Act 7:12 . σῖτα , but σιτία in R.V. (Blass follows T.R.), cf. LXX, Pro 30:22 = properly food made of corn opposed to χόρτος ( σῖτα not elsewhere in N.T., but in LXX τὰ σῖτα , corn, frumenta ). In Gen 42:2 we have σῖτος . But as Wendt points out, in the words which follow: πρίασθε ἡμῖν μικρὰ βρώματα we have what may well correspond to σιτία . ὄντα : on the participle after verbs of sense, e.g. , ὁρῶ , ἀκούω , οἶδα , in classical Greek, construction same as here especially in Luke and Paul in N.T., cf. Viteau, Le Grec du N. T. , p. 196 (1893). πρῶτον = “the first time,” R.V. = τὸ πρότερον to opposed to ἐν τῷ δευτέρῳ , Act 7:13 , which is only found here in N.T.: generally δεύτερον ( cf. ἐκ δευτέρου , 1Ma 9:1 and Dan 2:7 (LXX)).

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12. he sent out our fathers first] i.e. before he himself went away from Canaan into Egypt.

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But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt,.... Not then growing, or gathering in there, or that was of that year's produce; for the famine was strong in the land of Egypt, as well as in Canaan; but was what had been laid up, and preserved in the seven years of plenty, by the order and care of Joseph; which by some means or another, Jacob had heard of; see Gen 42:1 the Jews suggest (u), that it was by divine revelation:

he sent out our fathers first; the first time, or the first year of the famine; or he sent them first, he laid his commands on them, or they had not gone; these were the ten sons of Jacob, and brethren of Joseph, who were sent the first time, for Benjamin stayed with his father: see Gen 42:3.

(u) Bereshit Rabba, sect. 91. fol. 78. 1, 2.

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Was corn in Egypt - The word “corn” here rather denotes “wheat.” See the notes on Mat 12:1.

Our fathers - His ten sons; all his sons except Joseph and Benjamin, Gen. 42: Stephen here “refers” only to the history, without entering into details. By this general reference he sufficiently showed that he believed what Moses had spoken, and did not intend to show him disrespect.

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The history is known, Gen 42:1-38. Our fathers; our progenitors, Jacob’s sons, from whom we are descended.

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12. Believed Philip—But so total a desertion of Simon as to compel him to surrender, indicates the manifestation of an entire superiority of the deacon’s manifestations over the magician’s.

They were baptized—Their faith in the miracles of Philip deepened into an experience of the truth and power of the Gospel he preached.

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Sent forth for sent out, A.V.; the first time for first, A.V.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Sent our fathers first - Without Benjamin.

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See notes on verse 9

J. W. McGarvey (with Philip Y. Pendleton), Commentaries on the New Testament (The Fourfold Gospel, 1914; Acts; and the epistles) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

12. σιτία εἰς Αἴγυπτον with אABCE.

12. ὄντα σιτία εἰς Αἴγυπτον, that there was corn in Egypt. The force of the preposition implies ‘to be had by going down into Egypt.’ See above on Act 7:4.

σιτία is found in the LXX. Pro 30:22 ἐὰν ἄφρων πλησθῇ σιτίων, ‘if a fool be filled with meat.’ But it is not a common word, which will account for σῖτα taking its place in later MSS.

πρῶτον, first, i.e. before he himself went away from Canaan into Egypt.

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In Egypt [εν αιγυπτω] . But the best texts read eijv Aigupton, into Egypt, and construe with sent forth : "he sent forth our fathers into Egypt."

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