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Exodus 2:11-15
The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 2:11-15
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commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 2:1-11A child of providence. This section recounts the birth, deliverance, and upbringing at the court of Pharaoh, of the future Deliverer of Israel. In which we have to notice — I. AN ACT OF FAITH ON THE PART OF MOSES' PAREN…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryMatthew Henry on Exodus 2:11-15Moses boldly owned the cause of God's people. It is plain from Heb 11. that this was done in faith, with the full purpose of leaving the honours, wealth, and pleasures of his rank among the Egyptians. By the grace of Go…Matthew HenrycommentaryMoses Slays an Egyptian; Rebukes a Contentious Hebrew. (b. c. 1533.)MOSES SLAYS AN EGYPTIAN; REBUKES A CONTENTIOUS HEBREW. (B. C. 1533.) Moses had now passed the first forty years of his life in the court of Pharaoh, preparing himself for business; and now it was time for him to enter u…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 2:11-15Unpurified zeal. We must certainly attribute the killing of the Egyptian, not to Divine inspiration, but to the natural impetuosity of Moses' character. At this stage Moses had zeal, but it was without knowledge. His he…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 2:11-15FIRST ATTEMPT OF MOSES TO DELIVER HIS NATION, AND ITS FAILURE. After Moses was grown up — according to the tradition accepted by St. Stephen (Acts 7:23), when he was "full forty years old" — having become by some means…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 2:11When Moses was grown. "When he had become a .mall of vigour and intelligence" (Kalisch). He went out. The expression is emphatic, and accords with the view above exhibited — that a complete change in the life of Moses w…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 2:11-12§1. Moses as a would-be deliverer. Moses, as a would-be deliverer, shows us how zeal may outrun discretion. Actuated by deep love for his brethren, he had quitted the court, resigned his high prospects, thrown in his lo…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 2:11-12The choice of Moses. Underlying this episode of killing the Egyptian there is that crisis in the history of Moses to which reference is made so strikingly in the eleventh of the Hebrews — "By faith Moses, when he was co…Joseph S. Exell and contributors