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Chapter X—Training and inspiration of
Moses.2539
2539 [Consult the
ponderous learning of Warburton’s Divine Legation,
passim.]
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Moses’ writings" title="277" id="viii.vi.x-p2.1"/>Greek writers" title="277" id="viii.vi.x-p2.2"/>These things, ye
men of Greece, have been recorded in writing concerning the antiquity of
Moses by those who were not of our religion; and they said that they
learned all these things from the Egyptian priests, among whom Moses was
not only born, but also was thought worthy of partaking of all the
education of the Egyptians, on account of his being adopted by the
king’s daughter as her son; and for the same reason was thought
worthy of great attention, as the wisest of the historians relate, who
have chosen to record his life and actions, and the rank of his descent,
—I speak of Philo and Josephus. For these, in their narration of
the history of the Jews, say that Moses was sprung from the race of the
Chaldæans, and that he was born in Egypt when his forefathers had
migrated on account of famine from Phœnicia to that country; and him God
chose to honour on account of his exceeding virtue, and judged him worthy
to become the leader and lawgiver of his own race, when He thought it
right that the people of the Hebrews should return out of Egypt into
their own land. To him first did God communicate that divine and
prophetic gift which in those days descended upon the holy men, and him
also did He first
furnish that he might be our teacher in
religion, and then after him the rest of the prophets, who both obtained
the same gift as he, and taught us the same doctrines concerning the same
subjects. These we assert to have been our teachers, who taught us
nothing from their own human conception, but from the gift vouchsafed to
them by God from above. E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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