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Commentaries on Acts 7:18

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

Till another king arose,.... In, or over Egypt, as the Alexandrian copy, and others, and the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions read; in Exodus 1:8 it is a new king; the Jewish writers are divided about him, whether he was a different king from the former; or only so called, because he made new edicts (d): "Rab and Samuel, one says a new one absolutely: and the other says, because his...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

When our Lord Jesus called his apostles out to be employed in services and sufferings for him, he told them that yet the last should be first, and the first last, which was remarkably fulfilled in St. Stephen and St. Paul, who were both of them late converts, in comparison of the apostles, and yet got the start of them both in services and sufferings; for God, in conferring honours and favours,...

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph. The same dealt subtly with our kindred, and evil entreated our father, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live. In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father’s house three months: In the darkest night of Israel’s bondage in Egypt, her star of hope arose: “Moses was born, and...