Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Acts: Chapter 7]
scholars take the Hebrew _Kiyyoon_ to mean statues and not a
proper name at all, "statues of your gods" carried in procession,
making "figures" (\tupous\) with both "tabernacle" and "star"
which they carried in procession. {I will carry} (\metoiki•\).
Attic future of \metoikis•\ from \metoikiz•\. {Beyond Babylon}
(\epekeina Babul•nos\). The Hebrew and the LXX have "beyond
Damascus." An adverbial preposition (\ep' ekeina\ with \mer•\
understood) used in the old Greek and the LXX with the ablative
case and meaning "beyond." Here only in the N.T. in quotation
from Am 5:27.
7:44 {The tabernacle of the testimony} (\h• sk•n• tou
marturiou\). Probably suggested by the mention of "the tabernacle
of Moloch" (verse 43). See on ¯Mt 17:4 for discussion of
\sk•n•\ (from \skia\, shadow, root \ska\, to cover). This first
sanctuary was not the temple, but the tent in the wilderness.
"Stephen passes on from the conduct of the Israelites to his
other argument that God is not necessarily worshipped in a
particular spot" (Page). {According to the figure} (\kata ton
tupon\). According to the type or pattern. \Tupos\ is from
\tupt•\, to strike, to smite, and is the print of the blow (Joh
20:25), then the figure formed by a blow or impression like our
type, a model or example. Quoted from Ex 25:40. Common word in
the old Greek. {That he had seen} (\hon he•rakei\). Past perfect
active of \hora•\, to see (double reduplication).
7:45 {Which} (\h•n\). Agreeing with \sk•n•n\, not with \tupon\.
{In their turn} (\diadexamenoi\). First aorist middle participle
of \diadechomai\, to receive through another, to receive in
sucession or in turn. Late Greek, only here in N.T. Deissmann
(_Bible Studies_, p. 115) argues from a second century B.C.
papyrus that \diadochos\ means rather deputy or court official
than successor. {With Joshua} (\meta I•sou\). With Jesus, the
Greek form of Joshua (contracted from Jehoshua, Mt 1:21), as in
Heb 4:8. {When they entered on the possession of the nations}
(\en t•i kataschesei t•n ethn•n\). Literally "in (or at the time
of) the possession of the nations." See on ¯7:5 for the only
other N.T. instance of \kataschesis\. {Which} (\h•n\). The
nations, genitive by attraction to case of \ethn•n\. {Thrust out}
(\ex•sen\). First aorist active indicative of \ex•the•\, to push
out, common verb, here, only in N.T. save some MSS. in Ac
27:39.
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