Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’
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Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’
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What wilt thou kyll me as thou dyddest the Egyptian yester daye?
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Wilt thou kill mee, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 28 Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the…
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.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain He charges this great crime upon Moses, to hinder…
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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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Wilt thou kill me as thou didst the Egyptian…
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:''
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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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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Wilt thou kill me ... - How it was…
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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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Wilt thou kill me, as thou didst the Egyptian…
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.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 28. Was returning—Very probably he may have been in…
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.
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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.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 28. Wilt thou kill me, as thou didst the…
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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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Wouldest for wilt, A.V.; killedst for diddest, A.V.
Wouldest for wilt, A.V.; killedst for diddest, A.V.
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
J. W. McGarvey 1914 · Public Domain See notes on verse 17
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.