“Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.”
'When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his own people, the Israelites - the 'forty years' marks a full generation in biblical time-thinking. Moses's decision 'to visit his own people' is a turn toward identification with his suffering kindred, a movement from palace to people. This establishes the pattern of the deliverer arising from the oppressed community.
Church Fathers on Acts 7:11
Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance. But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first. And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren. Acts 7:11-13. They came down to buy, and had to depend upon him for everything. What then did he? [He made himself known to his brethren:] not to this point only did he carry his friendliness; he also made them…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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