"A Lesson From the Life of Moses Consider the experience of Moses. The education he received in Egypt as the king's grandson and the prospective heir to the throne was very thorough. Nothing was neglected that was calculated to make him a wise man, as the Egyptians understood wisdom. He received the highest civil and military training. He felt that he was fully prepared for the work of delivering Israel from bondage. But God judged otherwise. His providence appointed Moses forty years of training in the wilderness as a keeper of sheep. MH 474"
"And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds."
The EGW passage directly references and expands upon the information provided in Acts 7:22 regarding Moses' education in Egypt.
"Nothing can touch us except by our heavenly Father's permission. And "all things work together for good to them that love God." If we give ourselves unreservedly to God, trusting in His love, then every experience of life can become a means of blessing."
"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."
Ellen White directly quotes Romans 8:28 and expands on the principle that God uses every life experience for the believer's good.
"God's representative. As he led his flocks through the wilds of the mountains and into the green pastures of the valleys, he learned faith and meekness, patience, humility, and self-forgetfulness. He learned to care for the weak, to nurse the sick, to seek after the straying, to bear with the unruly, to tend the lambs, and to nurture the old and the feeble. MH 474.4"
"I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep."
The EGW passage describes Moses' shepherding experience as developing qualities mirroring the Good Shepherd described in John 10:11. While not a direct quote or allusion, the thematic connection is strong.