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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
"This is that Moses who said to the sons of Israel: 'The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet from among your brethren, like me,'" that is, like me, counted as nothing for that for which he should much sooner have been deemed worthy of honor. Pharaoh wanted to kill Moses, and Moses fled; and Herod wanted to kill the Lord, and the Lord escaped into Egypt. Both Pharaoh and Herod plotted against an infant; both issued a decree; and neither decree found obedience.
Oecumenius
This the blessed Stephen brought forward, hinting to them the mystery according to Christ, and showing that Moses also had spoken to you about him. For God and Father announces again the incarnation of His own offspring through the all-wise Moses, and that a second lawgiver will be raised up for us, having spoken the law formerly to the earlier ones himself through angels, and in the last times revealed as a worker for us, and having sent an angel as agent of the New Covenant, the angel of the great counsel of the Father. …
Western Saints
Bede
This is Moses who said to the sons of Israel: God will raise up for you a prophet from among your brothers, like me. Like me, visible in the flesh, but more wonderful in majesty and more terrible in majesty than I. He says, lest the doctrine of Christ be thought new and foreign, it is Moses himself, whom your fathers did not wish to obey, who preaches and says that he will come in the form of a man and will give the precepts of life to all souls.
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