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Title: The Bible and its story..
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942 Brewer, Julius August, 1877-1953, joint ed
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York, F. R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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effort to alleviate their lot. But in vain. Then one day, as the story is told in Exodus and again more fully in the Acts of the Apostles (Chapter 7), Moses saw an Egyptian illtreating an unfortunate Hebrew. Remonstrance proving unavailing, he slew the oppressor. Perhaps the deed was one of sudden rage, though the artist Schnorr depicts it rather as a premeditated thing. The Bible says that Moses looked this way and that way before he struck. He thought him-self unobserved, and hid the Egyptians body in the sand. Yet the whisper of what he had done spread among the Hebrews. Either there was a secret onlooker, or the rescued man himself told the tale in gratitude. Closes may have hoped thus to win acceptance as a leader among his people. If so the next day undeceived him. He intervened between two quarrelling Israelites, and was answered by one with an angry sneer, Intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian. So Moses saw that they would use his deed against him. ii~U
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