Exodus 2:10 (WEB)
The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”
Fathers and councils · 4
Gregory of Nyssa
“Was it not Pharaoh’s daughter who named him from what had happened?” — editor's note: Exod. ii. 10.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For, leaving out of sight the fact that Pharaoh’s daughter adopted Moses (as she was a foreigner), Jacob himself adopted his own grandsons, the sons of Joseph, in these very intelligible terms: “Now, therefore, thy two…” — editor's note: Ex. ii. 10.
Read the whole comment“Moses too, who was born of a Hebrew mother and was exposed, was adopted by Pharaoh’s daughter.” — editor's note: Exod. ii. 10.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Thereupon the queen gave the babe the name of Moses, with etymological propriety, from his being drawn out of “the water,”—for the Egyptians call water “mou,”—in which he had been exposed to die.” — editor's note: [See Ex. ii. 10.]
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Cross-references · 3
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.23.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.23.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.23.