Three-score and fifteen souls (εν ψυχαις εβδομηκοντα πεντε). Stephen follows the LXX which counts some grandchildren of Joseph and…

All his kindred. His father and family, Genesis 45:17–28 and Genesis 46:1-26.

Threescore and fifteen souls. Sev…

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…

Note those words, the time of the promise, and remember that every promise has its due time of fulfillment, and that there is a time of pr…

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…

When he says that Jacob came into Egypt with seventy-five souls, it does not agree with the words of Moses, for Moses mentions seventy only. Jerome…

Then sent Joseph
Gifts and presents to his father, and wagons, to fetch down him and his family into Egypt, ([Refere…

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…