“And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?”
The next day Moses goes out again and sees two Hebrew men fighting. He intervenes: why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew? He is attempting to be a reconciler among his own people, the same impulse he had when he intervened for the slave. But Acts 7:26 notes that Moses was trying to reconcile them, urging them toward peace — and was rejected. The pattern of the deliverer being rejected by those he comes to deliver is one the New Testament will press into service: Stephen's sermon in Acts 7:27–28 uses this exact moment to explain why Israel rejected Jesus. Moses, the great type of Christ, is not believed and not received by his own people before they are ready to receive him. John 1:11 echoes the same tragedy at a different register: He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. Rejection is not evidence of a failed calling — sometimes it is a mark of it.
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