“I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.”
'But it was Solomon who built a house for him - Solomon (not David) constructs 'a house' (oikon) for God. The shift from tabernacle (mobile tent) to temple (fixed house/building) is theologically loaded. The temple is now being introduced as a later development, not the original or definitive locus of divine-human encounter.
Church Fathers on Acts 7:34
I have seen, I have seen the affliction of My people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you into Egypt. Acts 7:34 See, how he shows, that both by kindnesses, and by chastisements, and by miracles, God was drawing them to Him: but they were still the same. That God is everywhere present, they learned. Hearing these things, let us in our afflictions flee to Him. And their groaning, says He, I have…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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