“And when he was cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.”
'I have indeed seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to rescue them. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt' - God's speech establishes divine solidarity with suffering: 'I have heard their groaning' (ekousato tēs stenagmou). God 'comes down' (katabainō, descends), a theophanic motif establishing vertical movement from heaven to earth as God's characteristic action. The purpose is rescue (exaireō), deliverance from oppression.
Church Fathers on Acts 7:21
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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