Atos 7:25

25 Cuidava que seus irmãos entenderiam que por mão dele Deus lhes havia de dar a liberdade; mas eles não entenderam.

Atos 7:25 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 7:25

For he supposed his brethren would have understood him,
&c.] From his being an Hebrew in such high life; from his wonderful birth, and miraculous preservation in his infancy, and education in Pharaoh's court; and from the promise of God that he would visit them and save them:

how that God by his hand would deliver them:
wherefore he was the more emboldened to kill the Egyptian, believing that his brethren would make no advantage of it against him; but look upon it as a beginning and pledge of their deliverance by him:

but they understood not;
or "him not", as the Ethiopic version reads; they did not understand that he was to be their deliverer, or that this action of his was a token of it.

Atos 7:25 In-Context

23 Ora, quando ele completou quarenta anos, veio-lhe ao coração visitar seus irmãos, os filhos de Israel.

24 E vendo um deles sofrer injustamente, defendeu-o, e vingou o oprimido, matando o egípcio.

25 Cuidava que seus irmãos entenderiam que por mão dele Deus lhes havia de dar a liberdade; mas eles não entenderam.

26 No dia seguinte apareceu-lhes quando brigavam, e quis levá- los � paz, dizendo: Homens, sois irmãos; por que vos maltratais um ao outro?

27 Mas o que fazia injustiça ao seu próximo o repeliu, dizendo: Quem te constituiu senhor e juiz sobre nós?