Acts 7:20

Acts 7:20. In which time. That is, in this season of terror and of bitter oppression.

Moses was born, and was exceeding fair. Tradition writes of him as ‘being beautiful as an angel.' Josephus speaks of his Divine beauty. Philo also called especial attention to it, and tells as how ‘those who met him as he was carried along the streets, not merely gazed at the face of the child, but, forgetting other business, stood still for a long time to look at him; for, so great was the child's beauty, that it captivated and detained the beholders.'

The expression in the Greek original, α ̓ στει ͂ ος τω ͂ͅ Θεω ͂ͅ, rendered exceeding fair, is a very strong superlative, and is known in classical Greek. See Hesiod, Works and Days, 825: ‘blameless unto the immortals,' or perfectly blameless; ‘with the gods' (see, too, Agam. Aesch. 352). We read also of Nineveh in the LXX., a city ‘great unto God,' an exceeding great city,' Jonah 3:2 (‘that great city,' Authorised Version).

In his father's house. His father's name was Amram.