Teks -- Acts 7:12 (NET)

7:12 So when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there the first time.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Robertson: Act 7:12 - That there was corn

That there was corn ( onta sitia ).

Participle (present active of eimi ) in indirect discourse, after akousas , "heard of corn being in Egypt."Sitia is diminutive of sitos and means grain (wheat, barley, not our maize or Indian corn), old word also for provisions, victuals, here only in the N.T.

Robertson: Act 7:12 - The first time

The first time ( prōton ).

While Jacob himself remained in Canaan before he went down to Egypt and died there (Act 7:15.).

Vincent: Act 7:12 - In Egypt

In Egypt ( ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ )

But the best texts read εἰς Αἴγυπτον , into Egypt, and construe with sent forth: " he sent forth our fathers into Egypt. "

Wesley: Act 7:12 - Sent our fathers first

Without Benjamin.

JFB: Act 7:9-16 - the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt, but God was with him

Here Stephen gives his first example of Israel's opposition to God's purposes, in spite of which and by means of which those purposes were accomplished.

TSK: Act 7:12

Gen. 42:1-24, Gen 43:2

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Act 7:12

The history is known, Gen 42:1-38 . Our fathers our progenitors, Jacob’ s sons, from whom we are descended.

Gill: Act 7:12 - But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt // he sent out our fathers first

But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt,.... Not then growing, or gathering in there, or that was of that year's produce; for the famine was strong in the land of Egypt, as well as in Canaan; but was what had been laid up, and preserved in the seven years of plenty, by the order and care of Joseph; which by some means or another, Jacob had heard of; see Gen 42:1 the Jews suggest ^u, that it was by divine revelation:

he sent out our fathers first; the first time, or the first year of the famine; or he sent them first, he laid his commands on them, or they had not gone; these were the ten sons of Jacob, and brethren of Joseph, who were sent the first time, for Benjamin stayed with his father: see Gen 42:3.