<p>7:29 <i>And <em>Moses fled at this saying </em></i><i>and went to live in the land of Midian</i>- Ex. 2:14 says that &quot;Moses was afraid, and said, Surely this thing is known&quot;. But Heb. 11:27 gives a different perspective: &quot;By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the anger of the king. For he endured...&quot;. See on Heb. 11:27. It seems that Moses had at best a mixture of motives, or motives that changed over time; yet God sees through his human fear, and discerns an element of calm faith within Moses as he left Egypt.&nbsp;Moses is described as having &quot;endurance&quot; at the time he fled from Egypt (Heb. 11:27), even though in the short term his faith failed him at the time and he fled in fear (Ex. 2:14,15). Yet God counted him as having that basic ability to endure, even to endure through his own failure and weakness.&nbsp;<em>This</em>&nbsp;is what God looks at, rather than our day-to-day acts of sin and righteousness.&nbsp;Stephen emphasizes the weakness of Moses to seek to lead his audience away from national pride and an idolizing of Moses; he wished them to see the prophet greater than Moses, Jesus the Messiah, as indeed greater than Moses. In Judaism, there was and still is a tendency to perceive Moses as the acme of spirituality, far greater than Messiah.</p><p><em>Where he begat two sons</em>- Neither of whom did he circumcise; and their mother was a non-Israelite. Such a person would have been excluded from the synagogues by Moses' spiritual descendants. Again, Stephen is portraying the weaker side of Moses in order to lead his listeners to a position where they sought the greater than Moses.</p>