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Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.
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Commentators suggest Stephen is drawing a powerful parallel. Just as the patriarchs, facing a famine, had to turn for physical sustenance to Joseph—the brother they had rejected—Stephen implies his audience must turn for spiritual sustenance to Jesus, the Messiah they had rejected and crucified.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Now there came a dearth. A famine (Genesis 41:54).
And Chanaan. Jacob was living at that time in Canaan.
Found no sustenance (ουχ ηυρισκον χορτασματα). Imperfect active, kept on not finding.
Chortasmata is from<…
19th Century
Anglican
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…
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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…
16th Century
Protestant
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt, and Canaan This dearth, or famine…
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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…
