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Chapter XLVII.—Foreknowledge of Moses.
Then said Peter: “The law of God was
given by Moses, without writing, to seventy wise men, to be handed
down, that the government might be carried on by succession. But
after that Moses was taken up, it was written by some one, but not by
Moses. For in the law itself it is written, ‘And Moses
died; and they buried him near the house of Phogor,989 and no one knows his sepulchre till this
day.’ But how could Moses write that Moses died? And
whereas in the time after Moses, about 500 years or thereabouts, it is
found lying in the temple which was built, and after about 500 years
more it is carried away, and being burnt in the time of Nebuchadnezzar
it is destroyed; and thus being written after Moses, and often lost,
even this shows the foreknowledge of Moses, because he, foreseeing its
disappearance, did not write it; but those who wrote it, being
convicted of ignorance through their not foreseeing its disappearance,
were not prophets.”990
990 [It is curious to find
the post-exilian theory of the Pentateuch in this place, put in the
mouth of the Apostle Peter.—R.] |
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