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Acts 7:21

Eastern Fathers

John Chrysostom

"And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son." Not a word of Temple, not a word of Sacrifice, while all these Providences are taking place. And he was nourished in a barbarian house.

Homily on Acts 16 ↗

Theophylact of Ohrid

And so they cast him in, and God inspires the daughter of Pharaoh, who knew nothing of this, to go out to the river. She went out, knowing nothing, and found what she was not seeking — she received the infant from the ark. And Moses was saved by symbols of the universal salvation of the Church, because the chest was made of wood, and the wood was saved from the water, and salvation came to one who was without hope, and the one who took Moses was not a Jewess, but from among the Gentiles and an Egyptian.

Commentary on Acts ↗