Atos 7:25

25 Ele pensava que seus irmãos compreenderiam que Deus o estava usando para salvá-los, mas eles não o compreenderam.

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 “Ao completar quarenta anos, Moisés decidiu visitar seus irmãos israelitas.

24 Ao ver um deles sendo maltratado por um egípcio, saiu em defesa do oprimido e o vingou, matando o egípcio.

25 Ele pensava que seus irmãos compreenderiam que Deus o estava usando para salvá-los, mas eles não o compreenderam.

26 No dia seguinte, Moisés dirigiu-se a dois israelitas que estavam brigando, e tentou reconciliá-los, dizendo: ‘Homens, vocês são irmãos; por que ferem um ao outro?’

27 “Mas o homem que maltratava o outro empurrou Moisés e disse: ‘Quem o nomeou líder e juiz sobre nós?