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The third of IVP’s critically acclaimed series of dictionaries of the New Testament provides focused study on the often-neglected portions of the New Testament: Acts, Hebrews, the General Epistles and Revelation. Furthermore, its scope goes beyond the life of the New Testament church to include the work of the apostolic fathers and early Christianity up through the middle of the second century. ...

taking ownership of the land (1QapGen 21:15–19), Stephen instead magnifies Abraham’s trust in God (cf. Rom 4:16–22). By including references to the prophecy to Abraham about his descendants’ four-hundred-year (Acts 7:6; cf. Ex 12:40; Gal 3:17) bondage in Egypt (Gen 15:13–14; cf. Ex 2:22) Luke emphasizes God’s faithfulness (see Faith) to his people in the midst of crisis. In an expansion of Exodus 3:12 (Acts 7:7) Luke modifies the term mountain (horos), used for Sinai in the Septuagint, using instead
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