Acts 7:30

And when forty years were expired,.... "Forty other years" the Arabic version reads; for so long the Jews (g) say Moses kept Jethro's flock, and so many years he lived in Midian; and so the Syriac…

And when forty years ... - At the age of 80 years. This, however, was known by tradition. It is not expressly mentioned by Moses. It is said, however, to have been after the king of Egypt had died Exo…

In a flame of fire in a bush - See this and the following verses largely explained in the notes on Exo 3:1-8 (note).

Stephen here proceeds in his story of Moses; and let any one judge whether these are the words of one that was a blasphemer of Moses or no; nothing could be spoken more honourably of him. Here is,

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And when forty years were expired Thus making, with the forty years mentioned in Act 7:7, eighty years, the age at which Moses went unto Pharaoh (Exo 7:7).

there appeared to him in the wilderness of…