The Bible and its . effort to alleviate their lot. But invain. Then one day. as the story is told in again more fully in the Acts of the Apostles(Chapter 7), Moses saw an Egyptian illtreating anunfortunate Hebrew. Remonstrance proving un-availing, lie slew tlie oppressor. Perhaps the deed was one of sudden rage, thoughthe artist Schnorr depicts it rather as a premeditatedtiling. The Bible says that Moses looktd this wayand that way before he struck. He thought liim-self unobserved, and hid the Egyjjtians body in thesand. Yet the wliisper of what lie had done spreadamong the
The Bible and its . effort to alleviate their lot. But invain. Then one day. as the story is told in again more fully in the Acts of the Apostles(Chapter 7), Moses saw an Egyptian illtreating anunfortunate Hebrew. Remonstrance proving un-availing, lie slew tlie oppressor. Perhaps the deed was one of sudden rage, thoughthe artist Schnorr depicts it rather as a premeditatedtiling. The Bible says that Moses looktd this wayand that way before he struck. He thought liim-self unobserved, and hid the Egyjjtians body in thesand. Yet the wliisper of what lie had done spreadamong the Hebrews. Either there was a secretonlooker, or the rescued man himself told the talein gratitude. Closes may have lioped tiius to win ac-ceptance as a leader among his people. If so the nextday undeceived him. He intc^rvcned between two quar-nlling Israelites, and was answered by one witji anangry sneer, Intendest tiiou to kill me, as thou killedst tlic Egyi)tian. So Moses saw that tin ywould use his deed against liim. ii~U. Mlt^^t@KC^::y@@^ ^iimfi.|!i!|liiPHil!|i|!|!|!|l|l|l|l|lilHai // Ki)t JBausijterg of 3^eucl BY BOTTICELLI, ONE OF THOSE ODD MEDIAEVALPICTURES WHICH PRESENT SEVERALSUCCESSIVE INCIDENTS AS HAP-PENING AT ONCE.+ Xow the priest of Mid tan had seven daughters:and they came and drew water.—Ej:., 2, 16. WHEN Pharaoh learned of the killing of theEgyptian he sought to slay Moses. Per-haps the monarcli remembered the oracleswarning against the Hebrew babe. At any rateit was evident that Closes had preferred the kindredof his birth to the kindred of Iiis adoption, and un-der such a leader the dreaded Israelites might beroused into a terrible rebellion. So Moses wasmarked for death; but he knew his danger and iledfrom the face of Pharaoli. Out into the deserts of Sinai he fled, followingl)crhai)s the very route along which later he was tolead the children of Israel; and, wearied and travelstained, he reached at length the land of Midian.
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