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Act 7:23. Ἐπληροῦτο, was fulfilled) There is a ripe time in all things. Before that time we ought to undertake nothing.-τεσσαρακονταετὴς χρόνος, the age of forty years) Moses’ life was thrice forty years: Act 7:30; Act 7:36.-ἀνέβη ἐπὶ τὴν καρδίαν αὐτοῦ, it came up into his heart) A very appropriate phrase. There may be something in the depth of the soul, which afterwards emerges and ascends (comes up) from that sea into the heart, as into an island. It might seem to have come into the mind of Moses at random: and yet Moses was acted on by Divine impulse.-ἐπισκέψασθαι, to visit) although he himself was happy and they wretched. He was not able to have exact knowledge in the palace of the sorrows of his brethren; therefore he went forth to them.-τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς, his brethren) A motive of love which Moses also employed to others: Act 7:26.