Expositor's Bible Commentary Commentary Hebrews 11:24

"By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh`s daughter;" — Hebrews 11:24 (ASV)

Passing over the putting of the baby in the ark of bulrushes, the finding of the child by Pharaoh’s daughter, and the rearing of Moses in Pharaoh’s house, the author comes at once to Moses’ faith as a grown man. Stephen tells us that Moses was about forty years old when the incident in this verse occurred (Acts 7:23); the author of Hebrews writes that the decision Moses reached was that of a mature man. In full knowledge of what he was doing, Moses “refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,” which must have seemed an act of folly by worldly standards. He had open to him a place of great prestige and could have lived comfortably among the Egyptian aristocracy. But he gave it all up.