But he answered: Who hath appointed thee prince and judge over us? Wilt thou kill me, as thou didst yesterday kill the Egyptian? Moses feared, and said: How is this come to be known?
Francis Patrick Kenrick
This was done on a principle of natural justice in defence of an injured man. St. Stephen, however, intimates that Moses presumed that the Israelites knew him to be divinely appointed to protect them: ' ' He thought that bis brethren understood that God by his hand would save them : but they understood it not." Acts 7 : 26. lie had not yet received a special mission, but he judged from his providential de- liverance and high position, that be was called to rescue his brethren. They must have known bis history, and should have inferred from it that he was Divinely saved to be their deliverer.
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.