Atti 7:25

25 Or egli pensava che i suoi fratelli intenderebbero che Dio li voleva salvare per mano di lui; ma essi non l’intesero.

Atti 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.

Atti 7:25 In-Context

23 Ma quando fu pervenuto all’età di quarant’anni, gli venne in animo d’andare a visitare i suoi fratelli, i figliuoli d’Israele.

24 E vedutone uno a cui era fatto torto, lo difese e vendicò l’oppresso, uccidendo l’Egizio.

25 Or egli pensava che i suoi fratelli intenderebbero che Dio li voleva salvare per mano di lui; ma essi non l’intesero.

26 E il giorno seguente egli comparve fra loro, mentre contendevano, e cercava di riconciliarli, dicendo: O uomini, voi siete fratelli, perché fate torto gli uni agli altri?

27 Ma colui che facea torto al suo prossimo lo respinse dicendo: Chi ti ha costituito rettore e giudice su noi?