Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 7:6

6 And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land, and that they should bring them into bondage, and intreat them evil four hundred years▪

As men which dwell in houses that are not their own; which seem to contradict the promise mentioned in the foregoing verse; but it is onely to make Abraham the more believe against hope, in hope, as 'tis said, Rom. 4.18. tho there were never so many difficulties more, for what God hath promised, faith would overcome them all.

This very space of four hundred yea[illegible: 2 letters], is also mentioned, Gen. 15.13, 16. Which is thus computed, from the birth of Isaac (the promised seed) to the birth of Iacob, sixty years; from Iacobs birth, to his going into Egypt, one hundred and thirty years, from thence to their deliverance out of Egypt, two hundred and ten years; this period is accounted, Exod. 12.40, 41. to be four hundred and thirty years; which also St. Paul reckons by, Gal. 3.17. but then thirty years is added unto the account, being the space of time betwixt the first promise made unto Abraham of this seed, and the birth of Isaac, in whom the promise was to be fulfilled: St. Stephen here reckoning onely from the birth of Isaac.