Acts 13:18 - Exposition

For about for about, A.V. Suffered he their manners ( ἐτροποφόρησεν ) . This word τροποφορέω , to bear or put up with any one's (perverse) manners, is found nowhere else in the New Testament. But in the Cod. Alex. of the LXX . it is the rendering of Deuteronomy 1:31 , instead of ἐτροφόρησεν he bare or carried, as a nursing father carries his child, which is the read of the Cod. Vat. and of the margin of the R.T. here. The Hebrew אשָׂןָ is capable of either sense. From this quotation from Deuteronomy it is conjectured that the Parashah on this occasion was from Deuteronomy 1:1-46 ., and if the ὕψωσεν of Deuteronomy 1:17 is taken from Isaiah 1:1-31 , that would seem to have been the Haphtorah, and it is curious that Deuteronomy 1:1-46 and Isaiah 1:1-31 are read in the synagogues now on the same sabbath (but see note on Isaiah 1:17 ). Forty years is invariably the time assigned to the dwelling in the wilderness ( Exodus 16:35 ; Numbers 14:33 , Numbers 14:34 ; Numbers 32:13 ; Numbers 33:38 ; Deuteronomy 1:3 ; Psalms 95:10 , etc.).