And the LORD said unto Moses,
See, I have made you a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.
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Ambrose of Milan
AD 397
He so far exceeded the dignity of his human state that he was given the title of “god” as we read in the Scriptures, where the Lord speaks: “I have appointed you the god of Pharaoh.” He was in fact victorious over all his passions and was not allured by the enticements of the world. He enveloped this our habitation here in the body with a purity that savored of a “citizenship that is in heaven.” By directing his mind and by subduing and castigating his flesh with an authority that was almost regal, he was given the name of “god,” by whom he had modeled his life through numerous acts of perfect virtue. .
