Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?
Acts 7:28 belongs to Stephen's defense before the council on the charge of blasphemy, spoken in a clear, thrilling voice that rang through the council hall and held the assembly spellbound. In that defense he rehearsed the history of God's chosen people from Abraham through generation to generation in the national records of Israel to Solomon, taking up the most impressive points to vindicate his cause. He showed thorough knowledge of the Jewish economy and its spiritual interpretation now made manifest through Christ. It belongs to his discourse reasoning from the Old Testament Scriptures beginning with Moses and the prophets, giving inspired proof in regard to the mission, suffering, death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ and proving His identity with the Messiah through the testimony of Moses and the prophets.
It occurs within Stephen's final testimony before the people and their rulers, whose words were met with resistance and whose growing tumult showed that his hearers were rejecting his testimony. It is part of the defense whose testimony Paul later continued by presenting evidence from prophecy that the crucified Jesus was the Son of God. It stands in the record of Stephen's speech and stoning, in which Saul acted a part as a rabbi, statesman, and member of the Sanhedrin who was very zealous for the suppression of Christianity before he was stopped and converted on the way to Damascus.
The verse exposes Moses's failed first attempt to deliver Israel by force: after he killed an Egyptian who was striking and mistreating a Hebrew, another Hebrew challenged him with these words, the deed became known, and Moses feared Pharaoh's wrath and became a fugitive and exile fleeing Egypt. At forty years of age Moses had his work planned out and commenced it after his own devising, trusting his Egyptian education and confidence in his own ability, plans, and strength. His rash, violent, premature action showed he was not yet fitted to represent God's mercy, love, and tenderness. God allowed this failure and sent Moses to live in Midian for forty years doing the work of a shepherd tending sheep, where the divine Teacher was with him to help and instruct him in deep and severe lessons of gentleness, goodness, patience, humility, submission, and service. There he learned to follow God's direction rather than trust his own judgment, and only after he had learned these lessons could God entrust him with leading Israel in the wilderness as their emancipator. This teaches that one called to serve must learn submission and service before being given responsibility, and even after God spoke with him face to face he did not presume to direct God's work.
Acts 7:28 belongs to Stephen's defense before the council on the charge of blasphemy, spoken in a clear, thrilling voice that rang through the council hall and held the assembly spellbound. In that defense he rehearsed the history of God's chosen people from Abraham through generation to generation in the national records of Israel to Solomon, taking up the most impressive points to vindicate his cause. He showed thorough knowledge of the Jewish economy and its spiritual interpretation now made manifest through Christ. It belongs to his discourse reasoning from the Old Testament Scriptures beginning with Moses and the prophets, giving inspired proof in regard to the mission, suffering, death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ and proving His identity with the Messiah through the testimony of Moses and the prophets.
It occurs within Stephen's final testimony before the people and their rulers, whose words were met with resistance and whose growing tumult showed that his hearers were rejecting his testimony. It is part of the defense whose testimony Paul later continued by presenting evidence from prophecy that the crucified Jesus was the Son of God. It stands in the record of Stephen's speech and stoning, in which Saul acted a part as a rabbi, statesman, and member of the Sanhedrin who was very zealous for the suppression of Christianity before he was stopped and converted on the way to Damascus.
The verse exposes Moses's failed first attempt to deliver Israel by force: after he killed an Egyptian who was striking and mistreating a Hebrew, another Hebrew challenged him with these words, the deed became known, and Moses feared Pharaoh's wrath and became a fugitive and exile fleeing Egypt. At forty years of age Moses had his work planned out and commenced it after his own devising, trusting his Egyptian education and confidence in his own ability, plans, and strength. His rash, violent, premature action showed he was not yet fitted to represent God's mercy, love, and tenderness. God allowed this failure and sent Moses to live in Midian for forty years doing the work of a shepherd tending sheep, where the divine Teacher was with him to help and instruct him in deep and severe lessons of gentleness, goodness, patience, humility, submission, and service. There he learned to follow God's direction rather than trust his own judgment, and only after he had learned these lessons could God entrust him with leading Israel in the wilderness as their emancipator. This teaches that one called to serve must learn submission and service before being given responsibility, and even after God spoke with him face to face he did not presume to direct God's work.