Teks -- Acts 7:29 (NET)

7:29 When the man said this, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

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Robertson: Act 7:29 - Sojourner

Sojourner ( paroikos ).

Temporary dweller (cf. Abraham in Act 7:6) in Midian though for forty years.

JFB: Act 7:28-29 - 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.

JFB: Act 7:29 - Then fled Moses, &c.

For "when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses" (Exo 2:15).

TSK: Act 7:29 - Madian

Exo 2:14-22, Exo 4:19, Exo 4:20

Madian : Exo 18:2-4

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Poole: Act 7:29 - Then fled Moses // The land of Madian

Then fled Moses knowing that what he had done to the Egyptian would be discovered to Pharaoh, and his life in danger.

The land of Madian inhabitant by the posterity of Midian, Abraham’ s son by Keturah, Gen 25:1,2 . Moses was forty years in Egypt, forty years in Midian, with Jethro or Jether, who was called also Reuel, Exo 2:18 , and Hobab, Num 10:29 , and the other forty years in the wilderness, which make up the hundred and twenty years of his life, Deu 34:7 . This makes to St. Stephen’ s purpose, to prove that God is always with them that fear him, in what country or place soever; as he was with Abraham in Mesopotamia, and with his people in Egypt, so with Moses in Midian.

Haydock: Act 7:29 - Moses fled upon this word

Moses fled upon this word; because he perceived the murder he had committed was become public, though he thought it to be secret. (Menochius) He fled, to avoid the anger of the king, into Madian, where during his sojourning, he had tow sons of Sephora, whom he married there. (Bible de Vence) ---

Moses of Moyses, in the Egyptian dialect, means, saved from water. He slew the Egyptian by particular inspiration of God, as a prelude to his delivering the people from oppression and bondage. (ver. 25. above) ---

But such particular and extraordinary examples are not to be imitated. (Challoner) ---

He was inspirited to stand up, as the Egyptian law required, in defence of the innocent. (St. Thomas Aquinas, iii. 2. q. 60.)

Gill: Act 7:29 - Then fled Moses at this saying // and was a stranger in the land of Madian // where he begat two sons

Then fled Moses at this saying,.... For hereby the thing was known to Pharaoh, being presently carried to court, who sought to kill him for it, Exo 2:15 The Jews have a very fabulous story, that Moses was taken up upon it, and put in prison, and delivered into the hands of an executioner to be put to death; but that God wrought a miracle for him; he made his neck as hard as a pillar of marble, and the sword turned upon the neck of the executioner, and he died; and God sent Michael, the prince, in the likeness of the executioner, who took Moses by the hand, and led him out of Egypt, and left him at the borders of it, the distance of three days' journey ^c but the truth of the matter is, as Stephen relates, he fled directly, as soon as he heard the above words, for he knew his life was in the utmost danger:

and was a stranger in the land of Madian; which, as Josephus says ^d, lay near the Red sea, and took its name from one of the sons of Abraham by Keturah. Philo the Jew ^e says, it was on the borders of Arabia; and according to Jerom ^f, it was near Arnon and Areopolis, the ruins of which only were shown in his days; here he sojourned many years with Jethro the priest of that place:

where he begat two sons; whose names were Gershom and Eliezer, having married Zipporah, the daughter of Jethro, Exo 18:2.