Page:Keil and Delitzsch,Biblical commentary the old testament the pentateuch, trad James Martin, volume 1, 1885.djvu/430

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Pharaoh's daughter, Moses received a thoroughly Egyptian training, and was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, as Stephen states in Act 7:22 in accordance with Jewish tradition.[1]
Through such an education as this, he received just the training required for the performance of the work to which God had called him. Thus the wisdom of Egypt was employed by the wisdom of God for the establishment of the kingdom of God.

  1. The tradition, on the other hand, that Moses was a priest of Heliopolis, named Osarsiph (Jos.c. Ap. i. 26, 28), is just as unhistorical as the legend of his expedition against the Ethiopians (Jos.Ant. ii. 10), and many others with which the later, glorifying Saga embellished his life in Egypt.