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On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph`s race was revealed to Pharaoh.
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A Pattern of Rejection & Salvation
Commentators explain that Stephen is drawing a powerful parallel. Just as Joseph's brothers, who had persecuted him, later had to depend on him for salvation from famine, Stephen implies his audience, who rejected Jesus, must ultimately turn to Him for spiritual salvation.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Joseph was not known. Genesis 14:4.
Joseph's kindred, that is, his relatives, his family.[Reference Genesis 14:1…
At the second time (εν τω δευτερω). This expression only here in the N.T. This second visit is recorded in Ge 45:1f..
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren That is, when the brethr…
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…
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