“In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father’s house three months:”
'The Lord said to him, 'Take off your sandals, because the place where you are standing is holy ground - the command to remove sandals marks sacred space, the boundary where profane world meets divine presence. 'This place' (ho topos) is holy not by institutional designation but by divine presence. The wilderness becomes more sacred than the built temple.
Church Fathers on Acts 7:20
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…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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