Acts 7:35

Stephen here begins to point out how in old time the people had rejected Moses, though he had the witness of God that his commission was Divine, that he may shew his hearers how they are acting in the same manner toward Jesus.

This Moses … the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel The best MSS. read, him hath God sent … with the hand, &c. The verb is in the perfect tense in the original, and constitutes the form of Stephen's appeal to history. God, says he, hath sent back the rejected Moses to be a ruler and deliverer, and he leaves them to draw the conclusion that what God had done in the case of Moses, he would also do in the case of the prophet whom Moses had foretold as to be like himself. Cp. Galatians 4:23; 1 Timothy 2:14; Hebrews 7:6.

by the hand of the angel i.e. with the power. Cp. Acts 11:21, "The hand of the Lord was with them." And of the angel it is said (Exodus 3:4) "When the Lordsaw that he turned aside to see, Godcalled unto him," so that the whole expression means, "with the power of God, who appeared to him," &c.