Acts 7:28

Act 7:28. Ὃν τρόπον, in the same way as) Those things are often known which we do not suppose are known concerning us.

Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament — English translation (T&T Clark, Edinburgh, 1860) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Act 7:28 . Cf. Exo 2:14 .

The Expositor's Greek Testament, edited by W. Robertson Nicoll (1897–1910) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Wilt thou kill me, as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday?--Moses had thought the deed unseen (Exo 2:12), but it now appeared he was mistaken.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

28. Wilt thou kill me, as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday?] For didst read killedst. The verb is repeated in the original.

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Wilt thou kill me as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday? That is, is it thy will? dost thou design to kill me? or, as in Exo 2:14 "intendest" thou to kill me? In the Hebrew text it is, "wilt thou kill me, dost thou say?" that is, as Aben Ezra rightly interprets it, dost thou say so "in thine heart?" which is a much better observation than that of Jarchi's;

"from hence we learn, says he, that he slew him by the ineffable name:''

though this is the sense of some of their ancient doctors (c);

""to kill me dost thou say?" it is not said, "dost thou seek?" but "dost thou say?" from whence you may learn, that the ineffable name was made mention of over the Egyptian, and he slew him.''

The word "yesterday" is added by Stephen, but with great truth and propriety, and is in the Septuagint version of Exo 2:14. The "as" here does not intend the manner of killing, whether by the fist or sword, or by pronouncing the word Jehovah, as Jarchi thinks, but killing itself, by whatsoever way; and the words were very spitefully said, on purpose to publish the thing, and to expose Moses to danger of life, as it did.

(c) Shemot Rabba, ib.

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28 Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?

Ver. 28. Wilt thou kill me, &c.] If this Hebrew had been well pleased, Moses had not heard of his slaughter; now in choler all will out. If this man’s tongue had not thus cast him in the teeth with blood, he had been surprised by Pharaoh, ere he could have known the fact was known; now he grows jealous, flees and escapes. No friend is so commodious in some cases as an adversary.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Wilt thou kill me ... - How it was known that he had killed the Egyptian does not appear. It was probably communicated by the man who was rescued from the hands of the Egyptian, Exo 2:11-12.

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He charges this great crime upon Moses, to hinder him from further reproving of him: though recrimination do not make him, or any other, more innocent; yet men ordinarily use it, as if it were some satisfaction to them that they are not wicked alone, but that others are as bad or worse: this better befits an Egyptian than an Israelite.

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28. Was returning—Very probably he may have been in Jerusalem at the time of Stephen’s martyrdom, when the city was rife with the name of Jesus and his Nazarenes.

In his chariot—In vain, at the present day, does the traveller look for such a thing as a chariot in this country. This very desert is more a desert now than when the eunuch travelled by its route. The barbarism of the Mohammedan conquerors of the country has abolished all vehicles, and camels, mules, and asses are the only means of conveyance. A better day is coming when these vile intruders will be vanquished, and the railway will send its wonders through this land.

Reading—The rabbies had a maxim which the eunuch here well practises: “The companionless traveller should employ his thoughts in study of the law.”

Esaias—The Greek form for Isaiah.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Wouldest for wilt, A.V.; killedst for diddest, A.V.

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See notes on verse 17

J. W. McGarvey (with Philip Y. Pendleton), Commentaries on the New Testament (The Fourfold Gospel, 1914; Acts; and the epistles) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

28. ὃν τρόπον ἀνεῖλες, as thou killedst. The Israelite knew of the slain Egyptian, whose body Moses had hidden in the sand, but as things stood between Egyptians and Israelites he would hardly think of laying a charge against a fellow Israelite, though he was ready at once to use his knowledge to alarm Moses, when any interference with himself was attempted.

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