Acts 7:6

7:6 But God spoke as follows: ‘Your 1  descendants will be foreigners 2  in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years. 3 

Acts 17:21

17:21 (All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there used to spend their time 4  in nothing else than telling 5  or listening to something new.) 6 

1 tn Grk “that his”; the discourse switches from indirect to direct with the following verbs. For consistency the entire quotation is treated as second person direct discourse in the translation.

2 tn Or “will be strangers,” that is, one who lives as a noncitizen of a foreign country.

3 sn A quotation from Gen 15:13. Exod 12:40 specifies the sojourn as 430 years.

4 tn The imperfect verb ηὐκαίρουν (hukairoun) has been translated as a customary or habitual imperfect.

5 tn BDAG 406-7 s.v. εὐκαιρέω has “used to spend their time in nothing else than telling Ac 17:21.”

6 sn This is a parenthetical note by the author. The reference to newness may be pejorative.