In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father’s house three months:
Stephen marks the timing for a reason: Moses was born the very moment Pharaoh decreed all male infants drowned. God's power shows itself most clearly when human hope is extinct. His weakness in a basket becomes His strength; Moses escapes death only to be severed from Israel, nearly becoming their enemy had God not restrained his heart for forty years.
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Israel swelled from seventy souls to six hundred thousand warriors not in haste but in God's time, and mark this: their fastest growth came when Egypt made their lives bitter. Suffering times have often been growing times with the church. Never lose heart at slowness; when the year of redemption draws near, God can do a double work in a single day.
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Commenting on Acts 7:17-29
In which time Moses was born,.... The word Moses, is differently written in the New Testament; sometimes Moses, as here, sometimes Mo-yses, as in Act 7:35 sometimes Mo-yseus, as in Act 15:1 and sometimes Moseus, as in Rom 5:14. He had his name from the Hebrew word, which signifies "to draw", Psa 18:16 according to the reason of it given by Pharaoh's daughter, she called...