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"This Moses, whom they refused, saying, `Who made you a ruler and a judge?` -- God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer with the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
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A Pattern of Rejection
Commentators unanimously agree that Stephen is drawing a direct parallel: just as the Israelites in Egypt initially rejected Moses, the very man God sent to be their 'ruler and deliverer,' Stephen's audience has rejected Jesus. This historical pattern of rejecting God's chosen leader is a central point of Stephen's argument, showing that the one refused by people is the very one sent and exalted by God.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
When they refused. That is, when he first presented himself to them (Exodus 2:13–14). Stephen introduces and dwells u…
This Moses (Τουτον τον Μωυσην). Rhetorical repetition follows this description of Moses (five times, anaphora, besides the use her…
19th Century
Anglican
The same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer.—Literally, a ruler and redeemer. The word is not found elsewhere in the New …
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Baptist
Is not that a shadow of that grander truth, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?
Still on the subject of “the land,” Stephen recounts the life of Moses. Incorporated into this section, largely by way of anticipation, is a Mosesr…
16th Century
Protestant
Stephen passes over many things because he makes haste to this point: that the Jews may understand, first, that the fathers were not delivered beca…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
This Moses, whom they refused That is, the Israelites; the Ethiopic version reads, "his kinsmen denied"; those of hi…
People deceive themselves if they think God cannot do what He sees to be good anywhere; He can bring His people into a wilderness and there speak c…
