Charles Ellicott Commentary Acts 7:33-34

"And the Lord said unto him, Loose the shoes from thy feet: for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning, and I am come down to deliver them: and now come, I will send thee into Egypt." — Acts 7:33-34 (ASV)

Then said the Lord to him ... — The words are almost a verbal reproduction of Exodus 3:5; Exodus 3:7–8. The citation was in part an implied answer to the charge of disregarding the sanctity of places in which man stands as in the presence of God, partly an implied protest against the narrowing thoughts which limited that sanctity to the Temple of Jerusalem.