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Acts 7:22 · World English Bible

Acts 7:22 Meaning Moses Was Instructed in All the Wisdom

Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.

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What does Acts 7:22 mean?

All outer learning is gathered first, and it is real power in its own realm, mighty in speech and in action, before the deliverer within can begin the true work. Egypt is the body itself and the mind still bound to the senses, the house of bondage a person is born into, and its wisdom is everything the intellect masters about the visible world.

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All outer learning is gathered first, and it is real power in its own realm, mighty in speech and in action, before the deliverer within can begin the true work. Egypt is the body itself and the mind still bound to the senses, the house of bondage a person is born into, and its wisdom is everything the intellect masters about the visible world. The one who draws the self out of the water learns that whole system to the full before he leaves it. The mastery of the outer world is the necessary schooling, but it is only the schooling. A person must know the flesh completely before the power that lifts him above it can even be named.

Moses: the power within a person that draws the higher self up out of the waters of the lower nature Egypt: the body and the sense-bound mind, the house of bondage every person is born into The wisdom of the Egyptians: all knowledge of the visible world the intellect masters before the inner deliverance

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Live Acts 7:22 today

  1. Take the skill you are best at, the thing people pay you for, and spend a minute today seeing it as training rather than identity. It is real and it is yours and it is not the whole of you.
  2. When someone younger or newer asks how to get where you are, tell them the unglamorous part. The years of learning the system from the inside, before any of it meant anything.
  3. When you are deep in the technical weeds at work, let yourself be fully competent there without thinking that is the ceiling. Do the ordinary mastery well, and hold the quiet knowledge that it is a school and not a home.

What have you learned so thoroughly that you could finally hold it more lightly?

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