Acts 7:12

Corn. Gr. sitia, “food,” “provisions.” “Corn,” or a small hard grain such as wheat, is sitos. This is not the “corn” of North America, which is properly called “maize.”

Our fathers. That is, the ten sons whom Jacob first sent into Egypt (Gen. 42:1-3). If Stephen is doing more here than developing a historical sequence, he is seeking to show that the very ones who afflicted Joseph came to be dependent upon the bounty resulting from his wisdom. And so the Jews of Stephen’s day must needs turn for their spiritual sustenance to Jesus Christ, whom they have afflicted.