Acts 7:21. Pharaoh's daughter. Josephus tells that the name of this princess was Thermutis.

Took him up surely signifies, ‘lifted him up out of the water.' This is better than to understand the words, as does de Wette, and also Hackett, in the sense of ‘adopted.' The next sentence goes on with the infant's subsequent adoption by the princess.

Far her own son. There is a Jewish tradition that, after his adoption by the daughter of the sovereign, Moses was chosen as Pharaoh's successor.

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Old Testament