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33 a‘Then the Lord said to him, “Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.  
34 I have surely aseen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will bsend you to Egypt.” ’  
35 “This Moses whom they rejected, saying, a‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ is the one God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer bby the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush.  
36 aHe brought them out, after he had bshown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, cand in the Red Sea, dand in the wilderness forty years.  

Israel Rebels Against God

37 “This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel, a‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. bHim you shall hear.’  
38 a“This is he who was in the1 congregation in the wilderness with bthe Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, cthe one who received the living doracles to give to us,  
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Acts 7:35

This Moses (Touton ton Mwushn). Rhetorical repetition follows this description of Moses (five times, anaphora, besides the use here, six cases of outov here about Moses: verse Acts 7:35 twice, Acts 7:36-38, Acts 7:40). Clearly Stephen means to draw a parallel between Moses and Jesus. They in Egypt

denied (hrnhsanto) Moses as now you the Jews denied (hrnhsasqe, Acts 3:13) Jesus. Those in Egypt scouted Moses as "ruler and judge" (verses Acts 7:27, Acts 7:35, arxonta kai dikasthn) and God "hath sent" (apestalken, perfect active indicative, state of completion) Moses "both a ruler and a deliverer" (arxonta kai lutrwthn) as Jesus was to be (Luke 1:68; Luke 2:38; Hebrews 9:12; Titus 2:14). "Ransomer" or "Redeemer" (lutrwthv) is not found elsewhere, lutron (ransom), lutrow, to ransom, and lutrwsiv, ransoming or redemption, are found often. In Acts 5:31 Christ is termed "Prince and Saviour."

With the hand (sun xeiri). So the correct text. The Pharisees had accused Stephen of blaspheming "against Moses and God" (Acts 6:11). Stephen here answers that slander by showing how Moses led the people out of Egypt in co-operation (sun) with the hand of the Angel of Jehovah.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 7:35:

Luke 6:44
Acts 7:35

 

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