“And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.”
'This is the same Moses they had rejected with the words, 'Who made you ruler and judge?' He was sent to be their ruler and deliverer by God himself, through the angel who appeared to him in the bush - Stephen now interprets the significance: the Moses Israel rejected is the one God appointed (apestaltē) as 'ruler and deliverer' (archontos kai lytrōtēs). The rejection and the divine appointment stand in paradoxical tension: Israel says 'no'; God says 'yes.' The theme of rejecting God's appointee is now explicit.
Church Fathers on Acts 7:22
And he was mighty, it says, in word and in deed Acts 7:22: he that was to have died. Then again he shows how ungrateful they were to their benefactor. For, just as in the former instance, they were saved by the injured Joseph, so here again they were saved by another injured person, I mean, Moses. And when he was full forty years old, etc. For what though they killed him not actually? In intention they did kill, as did the others in the former case. There, they sold out of…
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