Discovery BoxActs 7:17 
Context7:17 “But as the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise he had declared to Abraham, 1 the people increased greatly in number 2 in Egypt,
Acts 16:27
Context16:27 When the jailer woke up 3 and saw the doors of the prison standing open, 4 he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, 5 because he assumed 6 the prisoners had escaped.
1 tn Grk “But as the time for the fulfillment of the promise drew near that God had declared to Abraham.” The order of the clauses has been rearranged to improve English style. See vv. 6-7 above.
2 tn Grk “the people increased and multiplied.”
3 tn L&N 23.75 has “had awakened” here. It is more in keeping with contemporary English style, however, to keep the two verbal ideas parallel in terms of tense (“when the jailer woke up and saw”) although logically the second action is subsequent to the first.
4 tn The additional semantic component “standing” is supplied (“standing open”) to convey a stative nuance in English.
5 sn Was about to kill himself. The jailer’s penalty for failing to guard the prisoners would have been death, so he contemplated saving the leaders the trouble (see Acts 12:19; 27:42).
6 tn Or “thought.”
