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17. ὁ θεὸς … τοὺς πατέρας ἡμῶν, the God of this people of Israel chose our fathers. He commends his words to their hearing by dwelling on the historic facts of their national life as God’s chosen people. In that history the LXX. continually represents God’s choice of Israel by this word ἐξελέξατο. Cf. Deu 7:7; Deu 14:2; Ps. 33:12, 77:70, &c.
ἐν τῇ παροικίᾳ, when they dwelt as strangers. The expression occurs Wis 19:10, ἐμέμνηντο γὰρ ἔτι τῶν ἐν τῇ παροικίᾳ αὐτῶν, where the allusion is to the sojourn in Egypt. In the LXX. of Ezra it is also found (Act 8:35), οἱ υἱοὶ τῆς παροικίας, of those who were in Babylon.