Acts 7:45 - Exposition

In their turn for that come after , ( διαδεξάμενοι ), A.V.; Joshua (the Hebrew form) for Jesus (the Greek form of the name), A.V.; when they entered on the possession of the nations for into the possession of the Gentiles, A.V.; which God thrust for whom God drave, A.V. In their turn; more literally, having received it in succession. It only occurs here in the New Testament. Meyer quotes 4 Macc. 4:15, "On the death of Seleucus, his son Antiochus received the kingdom in succession;" and classical writers. When they entered , etc. There are three ways of construing the words ἐν τῇ κατασχέσει τῶν ἐθνῶν —