Actes 7:25

25 Or, il croyait que ses frères comprendraient que Dieu leur apportait le salut par sa main; mais ils ne le comprirent point.

Actes 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.

Actes 7:25 In-Context

23 Mais, quand il eut atteint l'âge de quarante ans, il lui vint au cœur de visiter ses frères, les enfants d'Israël.

24 Et voyant qu'on en maltraitait un sans sujet, il prit sa défense, et vengea celui qui était outragé, en tuant l'Égyptien.

25 Or, il croyait que ses frères comprendraient que Dieu leur apportait le salut par sa main; mais ils ne le comprirent point.

26 Le lendemain, il se montra à eux pendant qu'ils se battaient, et il les exhorta à la paix, en disant: Hommes, vous êtes frères; pourquoi vous maltraitez-vous l'un l'autre?

27 Mais celui qui maltraitait son prochain, le repoussa, en disant: Qui t'a établi chef et juge sur nous?