Acts 7:19 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

The same. This one.

dealt subtilly with. Greek. katasophizomai. Only here. In Septuagint "deal wisely", Exodus 1:10.

cast out. caused to he exposed (Greek. ekthetos. Only here).

young children. babes. Greek. brephos. App-108.

to the end. Greek. eis.

live. be born alive, or preserved alive. Greek. zoogoneo. Only here and Luke 17:33. See also 1 Timothy 6:13. In Septuagint in Exodus 1:17; Exodus 1:18; Exodus 1:22, &c.

Acts 7:19

19 The same 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.