And he said, who made thee a prince and a judge over
us?
&c.] God had designed him for one, and so he appeared to be
afterwards; but this man's meaning is, that he was not appointed
by Pharaoh's order then, and so had nothing to do to interfere in
their differences and quarrels; though Moses did not take upon
him to act in an authoritative way, but to exhort and persuade
them to peace and love, as they were brethren:
intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the
Egyptian?
if this was Dathan, or however the same Hebrew that he had
defended and rescued from the Egyptian, it was very ungenerous in
him to upbraid him with it; or if that Hebrew had made him his
confident, and acquainted him with that affair, as it was
unfaithful to betray it, since it was in favour of one of his own
people, it was ungrateful to reproach him with it:
and Moses feared;
lest the thing should be discovered and be told to Pharaoh, and
he should suffer for it: this fear that possessed Moses was
before he fled from Egypt, and went to Midian, not when he
forsook it, and never returned more, at the departure of the
children of Israel, to which the apostle refers, ( Hebrews
11:27 ) and is no contradiction to this:
and said, surely this thing is known;
he said this within himself, he concluded from this speech, that
either somebody had seen him commit the fact he was not aware of,
or the Hebrew, whose part he took, had through weakness told it
to another, from whom this man had it, or to himself; for by this
it seems that he was not the same Hebrew, on whose account Moses
had slain the Egyptian, for then the thing would have been still
a secret between them as before; only the other Hebrew this was
now contending with must hereby come to the knowledge of it, and
so Moses might fear, that getting into more hands it would come
out, as it did; (See Gill on Acts
7:27). (See Gill on Acts
7:28). (See Gill on Acts
7:29).