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Selected Verse: Acts 7:21 - American Standard
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ac 7:21 |
American Standard |
and when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son. |
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King James |
And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Was cast out - When he was exposed on the banks of the Nile, Exo 2:3.
And nourished him - Adopted him, and treated him as her own son, Exo 2:10. It is implied in this that he was educated by her. An adopted son in the family of Pharaoh would be favored with all the advantages which the land could furnish for an education. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Took up (ἀνείλετο)
Used among Greek writers of taking up exposed children; also of owning new-born children. So Aristophanes: "I exposed (the child) and some other woman, having taken it, adopted (ανείλετο) it" ("Clouds," 531). There is no reason why the meaning should be limited to took him up from the water (as Gloag). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Pharaoh's daughter took him up - By which means, being designed for a kingdom, he had all those advantages of education, which he could not have had, if he had not been exposed. |
10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, and said, Because I drew him out of the water.
3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink.