{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2577","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":13,"chapter_to":13,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":19,"verse_to":19},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Bede</b>: And destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, He allotted their land to them by lot, as after four hundred and fifty years, and after this He gave them judges. How this number can be understood, we said in the preceding book of our exposition. But it should be known that in the Greek it is written differently: And destroying the nations in the land of Canaan, seven, He allotted their land to them by lot. And after this, about four hundred and fifty years, He gave them judges until Samuel the prophet. How this agrees with the statement which is contained in the book of Kings, that from the exodus of Israel from Egypt until the building of the temple, there were four hundred and ninety years, is not within our capacity to explain, unless perhaps he followed the popular saying in speaking, which is proven that blessed Stephen did in the discourse held with the Jews about the burial of the twelve patriarchs.<br/><i>— Retractions on Acts</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: He distributed their land to them by lot, as it were after four hundred and fifty years. God had said to Abraham that his seed would be a stranger in a foreign land for four hundred years. And again he said: \"In Isaac shall your seed be called.\" From the birth of the seed until the exodus of Israel from Egypt, there were (as Exodus writes) four hundred and five years. Add to these the forty years in the desert, and five in the land of Canaan, during which it seems that the land rested from battles, and the lot was cast, and you will find four hundred and fifty years.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Then the settlement. \"And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He divided their land to them by lot.\" And the time was long; four hundred and fifty years. \"And after that He gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.\" Here he shows that God varied His dispensations towards them at divers times.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 29</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"Seven nations:\" the Hittites, the Gergaeans, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. (see Deut. 7:1)<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"5412a8d3b49e27028a2ab82dd0c903e1b48f27bae3191c0fb16ce881fad5cb45","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2577,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"f39c43314cde6a9e014de5d93391fb68544153d9c504c832a1f2999e54a56d23","translator":null,"work":null}