“But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,”
'After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai - the second 'forty years' (tetrakosiai eikosi etē, forty years) marks the second phase of Moses's life: his sojourn in Midian. The 'angel' (angelos) appears in 'flames of a burning bush' (photogē pyros bathē, the flame of fire in a bush), Exodus 3:2. The bush is a threshold where human and divine encounter each other in fire.
Church Fathers on Acts 7:17
And Joseph's kindred was made known unto Pharaoh. Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls. So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers, and were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem. But when the time of the promise drew near, which God had sworn to Abraham the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, till…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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