ACTS 13:20 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.”
All this took about four hundred and fifty years — Paul collapses the period from Joshua through the judges into a summary figure (cf. 1 Kings 6:1), using numerical symbolism common in Jewish homiletics. The round number emphasizes the vastness of God's patience and provision rather than precise chronology.
Church Fathers on Acts 13:20
And after that He gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet. Acts 13:20 Here he shows that God varied His dispensations towards them (at various times). And afterward they desired a king: and (still) not a word of their ingratitude, but throughout he speaks of the kindness of God.
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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