Acts 7:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

This fact of Moses some defend by the law of nature, which allows us to protect the innocent; but many things we know were done by an extraordinary warrant, which we are not to imitate; nor by our own authority to avenge ourselves or others.

Acts 7:24

24 And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian: