Found no sustenance (ουχ ηυρισκον χορτασματα). Imperfect active, kept on not finding.

Chortasmata is from<…

Now there came a dearth. A famine (Genesis 41:54).

And Chanaan. Jacob was living at that time in Canaan.

Now there came a famine . . .—As far as we can trace the sequence of thought, the suggested inference appears to be that just as t…

Stephen’s address next turns to the sons of Jacob, or “the twelve patriarchs” as they were known more popularly. Here Stephen’s point is that God w…

There came a famine. This shows that the deliverance of Joseph was a benefit common to all the family of Jacob. For, as the famine approac…

Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt, and
Canaan
This dearth, or famine…

Stephen was charged as a blasphemer of God and an apostate from the church; therefore, he shows that he is a son of Abraham and takes pride in this…