Soldier not believing his Protestations, kills him.
Moses
fell on his Face with Horror and Amazement, when the Divine Voice thus prevented his Expostulation: 'Be not surprised,
Moses
, nor ask why the Judge of the whole Earth has suffer'd this Thing to come to pass: The Child is the Occasion that the Blood of the old Man is spilt; but know, that the old Man whom thou saw'st, was the Murderer of that Child's Father
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Paradise Lost