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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on Exodus 2:12

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · Cross-reference reference work
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he looked: Act 7:24-26 slew: If the Egyptian killed the Hebrew, Moses only acted agreeably to the divine law ( Gen 9:6) in thus slaying the Egyptian; nor did he violate the law of Egypt; for, according to Diodorus Siculus (1. 1. 17), "he who saw a man killed, or violently assaulted on the highway, and did not rescue him, if he could, was punished with death." Moses, therefore, in this transaction, acted as a brave and good man; especially as at this time there was little probability of obtaining justice on an Egyptian murderer. Exodus 2:13
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