Acts 7:20

In which time Moses was born, and was exceedingly fair, and was nourished in his father's house three months:
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Moses . was acceptable to God. Greatly favoured both with gifts of nature and grace. Some expound it, was extremely fair or beautiful. (Witham)

John Chrysostom

AD 407
This is the wonder, that he who is to be their champion, is born, neither after nor before, these things, but in the very midst of the storm (θυμῷ). And was nourished up in his father's house three months. But when man's help was despaired of, and they cast him forth, then did God's benefit shine forth conspicuous.

John Chrysostom

AD 407
Then (to show) God's fullness of ways and means (εὐμήχανον), In which time, it says, Moses was born, and was exceeding fair. Acts 7:20 If the former circumstance was wonderful, that Joseph was sold by his brethren, here again is another circumstance more wonderful still, that the king nourished the very person who was to overthrow his dominion, being himself the person that was to perish. Do you observe all along a figurative enacting, so to say, of the resurrection of the dead? But it is not the same thing for God himself to do a thing, and for a thing to come to pass in connection with man's purpose (προαίρεσις). For these things indeed were in connection with man's purpose [but the Resurrection by itself, independently.]

John Chrysostom

AD 407
This is the wonder, that he who is to be their champion, is born, neither after nor before, these things, but in the very midst of the storm (θυμῷ). And was nourished up in his father's house three months. But when man's help was despaired of, and they cast him forth, then did God's benefit shine forth conspicuous. And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.

John Chrysostom

AD 407
If the former circumstance was wonderful, that Joseph was sold by his brethren, here again is another circumstance more wonderful still, that the king nourished the very person who was to overthrow his dominion, being himself the person that was to perish. Do you observe all along a figurative enacting, so to say, of the resurrection of the dead? But it is not the same thing for God himself to do a thing, and for a thing to come to pass in connection with man's purpose (προαίρεσις). For these things indeed were in connection with man's purpose [but the Resurrection by itself, independently.]— And he was mighty, it says, in word and in deed

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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