Acts:7
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Then (
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Steven is allowed to plead his cause ,
but for this reason and purpose ,
that under a disguise and pretence of the Law he might be condemned .(:
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said the high priest ,
Are these things so ?
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And said vnto him ,
Come out of thy countrey ,
and from thy kindred ,
and come into the land ,
which I shall shewe thee .
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Then came he out of the land of the Chaldeans ,
and dwelt in Charran ;
after that his father was dead ,
God brought him from thence into this land ,
wherein ye now dwell ,
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And he gave him none inheritance in it ,
no ,
not [
so much as ]
to (
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Not enough ground to even set his foot upon .(:
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set his foot on :
yet he The promise of the possession was certain ,
and belonged to Abraham ,
though it was his posterity that enjoyed it a great while after his death :
and this is the figure of speech synecdoche .
promised that he would give it to him for a possession ,
and to his seed after him ,
when [
as yet ]
he had no child .
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And God spake on this wise ,
That his seed should sojourn in a strange land ;
and that they should bring them into bondage ,
and entreat [
them ]
evil (
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Four hundred years are counted from the beginning of Abraham '
s progeny ,
which was at the birth of Isaac :
and four hundred and thirty years which are spoken of by Paul in (
Gal_3
:17 ),
from the time that Abraham and his father departed together out of Ur of the Chaldeans .(:
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four hundred years .
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But the nation to whome they shall be in bondage ,
will I iudge ,
sayth God :
and after that ,
they shall come forth and serue me in this place .
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Hee gaue him also the couenant of circumcision :
and so Abraham begate Isaac ,
and circumcised him the eight day :
and Isaac begate Iacob ,
and Iacob the twelue Patriarkes .
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And delivered him out of all his afflictions ,
and gave him (
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Gave him favour in Pharaoh '
s sight because of his wisdom .(:
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favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt ;
and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house .
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Then came there a famine ouer all the land of Egypt and Chanaan ,
and great affliction ,
that our fathers found no sustenance .
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But when Iacob heard that there was corne in Egypt ,
he sent our fathers first :
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And at the second time ,
Ioseph was knowen of his brethren ,
and Iosephs kindred was made knowen vnto Pharao .
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Then sent Ioseph and caused his father to be brought ,
and all his kindred ,
euen threescore and fifteene soules .
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So Iacob went downe into Egypt ,
and he dyed ,
and our fathers ,
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And were (
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The patriarchs who were the sons of Jacob ,
though only Joseph is mentioned ; (
Jos_24
:32 ).(:
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carried over into Sychem ,
and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor [
the father ]
of Sychem .
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But when the time of the promes drewe neere ,
which God had sworne to Abraham ,
the people grewe and multiplied in Egypt ,
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Till another King arose ,
which knewe not Ioseph .
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The same (
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He devised a subtle plan against our stock ,
in that he commanded all the males to be cast out .(:
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dealt subtilly with our kindred ,
and evil entreated our fathers ,
so that they cast out their young children ,
to the end they might not live .
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In which time Moses was born ,
and was (
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This child was born through God '
s merciful goodness and favour ,
to be of a lovely and fair countenance .(:
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exceeding fair ,
and nourished up in his father '
s house three months :
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And when he was cast out ,
Pharaos daughter tooke him vp ,
and nourished him for her owne sonne .
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And Moses was learned in all the wisdome of the Egyptians ,
and was mightie in wordes and in deedes .
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Nowe when he was full fourtie yeere olde ,
it came into his heart to visite his brethren ,
the children of Israel .
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And whe he saw one of them suffer wrong ,
he defended him , &
amp ;
auenged his quarell that had the harme done to him ,
and smote the Egyptian .
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For hee supposed his brethren would haue vnderstand ,
that God by his hande should giue them deliuerance :
but they vnderstoode it not .
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And the next day ,
he shewed himselfe vnto them as they stroue ,
and woulde haue set them at one againe ,
saying ,
Syrs ,
ye are brethren :
why doe ye wrong one to another ?
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But he that did his neighbour wrong ,
thrust him away ,
saying ,
Who made thee a prince ,
and a iudge ouer vs ?
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Wilt thou kill mee ,
as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday ?
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Then fled Moses at that saying ,
and was a stranger in the land of Madian ,
where he begate two sonnes .
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And when forty years were expired ,
there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an (
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Now ,
he calls the Son of God an angel ,
for he is the angel of great counsel ,
and therefore immediately after he describes him as saying to Moses , «
I am the God of thy fathers ,
etc .»(:
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angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush .
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And when Moses sawe it ,
hee wondred at the sight :
and as he drew neere to consider it ,
the voyce of the Lord came vnto him ,
saying ,
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I am the God of thy fathers ,
the God of Abraham ,
and the God of Isaac ,
and the God of Iacob .
Then Moses trembled , &
amp ;
durst not behold it .
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Then the Lord said to him ,
Put off thy shoes from thy feete :
for the place where thou standest ,
is holy ground .
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I haue seene ,
I haue seene the affliction of my people ,
which is in Egypt , &
amp ;
I haue heard their groning ,
and am come downe to deliuer them :
and nowe come ,
and I will sende thee into Egypt .
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This Moses whom they refused ,
saying ,
Who made thee a ruler and a judge ?
the same did God send [
to be ]
a ruler and a deliverer by the (
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By the power .(:
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hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush .
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Hee brought them out ,
doing wonders ,
and miracles in the land of Egypt ,
and in the red sea ,
and in the wildernes fourtie yeeres .
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This is he that was in the Congregation ,
in the wildernes with the Angell ,
which spake to him in mount Sina ,
and with our fathers ,
who receiued the liuely oracles to giue vnto vs .
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To whom our fathers would not obey ,
but refused ,
and in their hearts turned backe againe into Egypt :
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Saying vnto Aaron ,
Make vs gods that may goe before vs :
for we knowe not what is become of this Moses that brought vs out of the land of Egypt .
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And they made a (
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This was the superstition of the Egyptian '
s idolatry :
for they worshipped Apis ,
a strange and marvellous looking calf ,
and made beautiful images of cows .(:
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calf in those days ,
and offered sacrifice unto the idol ,
and rejoiced in the works of their own hands .
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Then God turned ,
and (
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Being destitute and void of his Spirit ,
he gave them up to Satan ,
and wicked lusts ,
to worship stars .(:
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gave them up to worship the By «
the host of heaven »
here he does not mean the angels ,
but the moon ,
and sun ,
and other stars .
host of heaven ;
as it is written in the book of the prophets ,
O ye house of Israel ,
have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices [
by the space of ]
forty years in the wilderness ?
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Yea ,
ye (
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You took it upon your shoulders and carried it .(:
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took up the tabernacle of Moloch ,
and the star of your god Remphan ,
figures which ye made to worship them :
and I will carry you away beyond Babylon .
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Which also our fathers that came after (
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Delivered from hand to hand .(:
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brought in with Jesus into the This is said using the figure of speech metonymy ,
and refers to the countries which the Gentiles possessed .
possession of the Gentiles ,
whom God drave out God drove them out that they should yield up the possession of those countries to our fathers when they entered into the land .
before the face of our fathers ,
unto the days of David ;
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Who found fauour before God ,
and desired that hee might finde a tabernacle for the God of Iacob .
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Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with handes ,
as saith the Prophet ,
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Heauen is my throne ,
and earth is my footestoole :
what house wil ye build for me ,
saith the Lord ?
or what place is it that I should rest in ?
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Hath not mine hand made all these things ?
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Which of the Prophets haue not your fathers persecuted ? &
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they haue slaine them ,
which shewed before of the comming of that Iust ,
of whome ye are now the betrayers and murtherers ,
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Who have received the law by the (
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By the ministry of angels .(:
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disposition of angels ,
and have not kept [
it ].
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And said ,
Beholde ,
I see the heauens open ,
and the Sonne of man standing at the right hand of God .
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And cast [
him ]
out of the city ,
and stoned [
him ]:
and the (
note :)
It was appointed by the Law that the witnesses should cast the first stones ; (
Deu_17
:7 ).(:
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witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man '
s feet ,
whose name was Saul .
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And they stoned Steuen ,
who called on God ,
and said ,
Lord Iesus ,
receiue my spirit .
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