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Acts 7:22 (WEB)
Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.

Fathers and councils · 7

Origen, Against Celsus III.46Book III
“For he says: “And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians.”” — editor's note: Acts vii. 22.
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Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies Fragments from.32Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenæus
“Josephus says, that when Moses had been brought up in the royal palaces, he was chosen as general against the Ethiopians; and having proved victorious, obtained in marriage the daughter of that king, since indeed, out of her affection for him, she delivered the city up to him.” — editor's note: See Josephus’ Antiquities, book ii. chap. x., where we read that this king’s daughter was called Tharbis. Immediately upon the surrender of this city (Saba,…
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Augustine of Hippo, Confessions VII.9Book VII
“And I had come unto Thee from among the Gentiles, and I strained after that gold which Thou willedst Thy people to take from Egypt, seeing that wheresoever it was it was Thine.” — editor's note: Similarly, as to all truth being God’s, Justin Martyr says: “Whatever things were rightly said among all men are the property of us Christians” (Apol. ii. 13).…
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Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XV.27Book XV
“…accept what Origen has with some appropriateness suggested, that Moses the man of God, being, as it is written, “learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians,” who delighted in geometry, may have meant geometrical cubits, of which they say that one is equal to six of our cubits, then who does not see what a capacity…” — editor's note: Acts vii. 22.
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Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XVIII.37Book XVIII
“…doctrine which might be called their wisdom, else it would not have been written in the holy books that Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, as he was, when, being born there, and adopted and nursed by Pharaoh’s daughter, he was also liberally educated.” — editor's note: Acts vii. 22.
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Ambrose of Milan, On the Duties of the Clergy I.26Book I
“Moses, learned as he was in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, did not approve of those things, but thought that kind of wisdom both harmful and foolish.” — editor's note: Acts vii. 22.
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Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.23Book I
“He learned, besides, the literature of the Egyptians, and the knowledge of the heavenly bodies from the Chaldeans and the Egyptians; whence in the Acts he is said “to have been instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians.”” — editor's note: Acts vii. 22.
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