αὐτοὺς

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 αὐτοὺς

   au-TOUS

   them
2. sentence🔊 ὁ θεὸς τοῦ λαοῦ τούτου Ἰσραὴλ ἐξελέξατο τοὺς πατέρας ἡμῶν καὶ τὸν λαὸν ὕψωσεν ἐν τῇ παροικίᾳ ἐν γῇ Αἰγύπτου καὶ μετὰ βραχίονος ὑψηλοῦ ἐξήγαγεν αὐτοὺς ἐξ αὐτῆς

   ho the-OS tou la-OU TOU-tou is-ra-EL ek-se-LEK-sa-to tous pa-TE-ras hê-MON kai ton la-ON HY-psō-sen en têi pa-roi-KEE-a en gêi ai-GYP-tou kai me-TA bra-KHI-o-nos hy-psē-LOU ek-SĒ-ga-gen au-TOUS eks au-TÊS

   the God of the people of this Israel chose the fathers our and the people made great in the sojourn in land of Egypt and with arm uplifted he led out them out of it

Exegesis

The next coordinated clause with kai meta brachiōnos hypsēlou exēgagen autous ex autēs {καὶ μετὰ βραχίονος ὑψηλοῦ ἐξήγαγεν αὐτοὺς ἐξ αὐτῆς | kaí metá brachíōnos hypsēloû exḗgagen autoús ex autês} presents another aorist main verb, exēgagen, again with God as implicit subject and autous as object, narrating the climactic act of deliverance. The prepositional phrase meta brachiōnos hypsēlou expresses means or accompaniment, “with an uplifted arm,” a metaphorical anthropomorphism for manifest power, while ex autēs refers back to Egypt as the place from which they were brought out. English renderings reflect the asyndetic sequence of divine actions (chose, exalted, led out), preserve the temporal and locative nuance of the en-phrases by using “while” and “in,” and maintain the metaphor of the raised arm to retain the imagery of powerful, public deliverance.