Moses

"And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

but it would be a long matter to set them out with exactness, since Dionysus himself, on account of whom the Dionysiac spectacles are held, is shown presently to be later than Moses.

and, helped by the writings of Moses, he forbade the Romans to make any image of God in the form of man or beast.

For even though Moses, somewhat later, seems the first to have dedicated the God of the world in the temple of his own writings, the birthdays of His recognition are not therefore to be reckoned from the Pentateuch — since the whole pen of Moses does not establish the knowledge of the Creator, but, beginning from the very origin, recounts that He is to be reckoned from Paradise and Adam, not from Egypt and Moses.

" But the image of the bronze serpent, afterward commanded to Moses by the Lord, pertained not to the title of idolatry, but to the remedying of those who were infested by serpents.

Little enough, even then, is the god in his very fierceness, when, made savage against the people for the consecration of the calf, He demands of His own servant Moses, "Let me alone, and in my indignation I will destroy them in anger, and I will make you into a great nation.

Such too was Moses, rising up with great wrath against those who sinned against God, yet bearing with a gentle soul the slanders against himself.

For it is plain that in the case of those struck we shall observe the rule of Moses;

But Moses was appointed god of the Egyptians, when he who gave the oracle spoke to him thus:

Of all nations there is but one, to which God particularly vouchsafed to give laws, and that was the people of Israel, whom Moses thus addresses in the fourth Chap.

Since then the law given by Moses imposes no direct obligation upon us, as it has been already shown, let us consider whether it has any other use both in this inquiry into the rights of war, and in other questions of the same kind.

In the same manner Moses ordered the people to fight against Amalekites, who attacked them;

and when they had been enslaved to the Egyptian nation and to a certain tyrant Pharaoh, he led them out from thence with signs and dreadful and extraordinary wonders through Moses and Aaron, holy men glorified with the grace of prophecy — through whom he both chastised the Egyptians worthily of their wickedness, and led the Israelites (for so that people, the descendants of Abraham, was called) th …

Then, leading the people through the desert for forty years with the greatest wonders and divine manifestations, and feeding them with bread from heaven, he gave a law written by God on tablets of stone, which he put into the hands of Moses upon the mountain — a figure and outline of things to come — leading them away from the idols and from all wicked deeds, and teaching them to worship the God w …

For the law of Moses, given of old to the Israelites, says:

For in this law given to Adam we recognize all the precepts contained which afterwards sprang up, given through Moses — that is:

This suffering of this destruction was accomplished within the times of the seventy weeks, under Tiberius Caesar, in the consulship of Rubellius Geminus and Fufius Geminus, in the month of March, at the time of the Passover, on the eighth day before the Kalends of April, on the first day of the unleavened bread, on which they killed the lamb at evening, as had been commanded by Moses.

In short, when through Moses the priestly law was being written down in Leviticus, we find it prescribed to the people of Israel that sacrifices should be offered to God in no other place than in the land of promise, which the Lord God was about to give to the people of Israel and to their brothers — so that, Israel having been brought in, the sacrifices and burnt offerings might be celebrated the …

Moses, much more ancient even than Saturn by about nine hundred years — let alone than his great-grandsons — and certainly much more divine, who set forth the descents of the human race from the beginning of the world too, through the several births, by name and by time, sufficiently proving the divinity of the work out of the divination of his utterance.

For the law of Moses too then judges the abortion guilty of retribution, when it is already the case of a man, when there is already reckoned to it a status of life and death, when it is already enrolled even under fate, even though, while still living in the mother, it shares most of its lot with the mother.

‘Of every tree,’ He says, ‘you shall eat’;

As for the testimonies of the Holy Scriptures verifying what we have said, there is His word, exalted be He, to Mūsá:

[43] 3) The Book of Exodus 3:

And when the matter corresponding between the forms and the meanings is complete, it has no need at all of interpretation — as happened with Mūsá, in the correspondence between the meanings and the names, when it was said to him:

Do you not see how Moses, the hierophant of truth, commands that the eunuch and the man with severed parts shall not enter the assembly, and besides these him that is born of a harlot?

but already, through Moses the all-wise, and through Isaiah the lover of truth, and through all the choir of the prophets, he turns to the Word, in more reasonable fashion, those who have ears.

Whence, turning men away from all idolatry, the inspired Moses cried out most nobly:

Cui simile est quod in Mosis historia et inde apud Augustinum legimus, iusta bella Israelitas contra Amorrhaeos gessisse, quia innoxius transitus denegabatur;

We read of a similar case in the history of Moses, which we find mentioned also in the writings of Augustine, where the Israelites justly smote with the edge of the sword the Amorites because they had denied the Israelites an innocent passage through their territory, a right which according to the Law of Human Society ought in all justice to have been allowed.

For the first prophet, Moses, who set forth, beginning from the past, the founding of the world and the sprouting of the human race, and presently the avenging force of the flood upon the iniquity of that age, by his prophesying down to his own time, and thereafter through his own affairs, gave forth images of things to come;

If you have heard meanwhile of one Moses, he is of equal age with the Argive Inachus.

To answer the Jews — they too learned to worship the Lord through a man, Moses.

For commemorating that concerning the resurrection of the dead it is written in Moses, he knew it bodily, in which, namely, the blood of man shall have to be required.

when Moses hides his hand in his bosom and brings it forth as dead, and again puts it in and draws it out alive — does this not portend concerning the whole man?

" "Therefore," you say, "the fishes too shall be raised up, and the other beasts and the carnivorous birds, to vomit back those whom they have eaten — since in Moses too you read that blood is required of all the beasts?

"Why then did Moses in the wilderness make a likeness of a serpent out of bronze?

It may seem to be defined in this chapter also concerning military service, which is between dignity and power.

In Exodus, was not that posture of Moses against Amalek, fighting by prayers and persevering until sundown, a late Station?

For the rest, in whom was found a heart erect rather than fattened—he who for forty days and as many nights prolonged a fast beyond the capacity of human nature, his spiritual faith supplying the strength, and saw with his eyes the glory of God and heard with his ears the voice of God and perceived with his heart the law of God, already then teaching that man lives not by bread alone but in every …

For as regards fasting, they set against us the days fixed by God, as when in Leviticus the Lord enjoins upon Moses the tenth day of the seventh month, the day of atonement:

for if it was so done from the beginning, we find ourselves directed by Christ to the beginning—as, in the question of divorce, when he says that it was permitted by Moses on account of their hardness, but from the beginning it was not so, he without doubt recalls to the beginning the indivisibility of marriage.

when, in the revelation of his glory, out of so many saints and prophets he chooses to have Moses and Elijah with him, the one a monogamist, the other a eunuch.

you have Moses, God's arbiter from close at hand;

O Mūsá, whoever enriches himself with the wealth of the poor and of orphans, I shall make him poor in this world and punish him in the hereafter;

It is said, then, that even that great Moses, whose name for wisdom is greatest among all men, first trained his mind in the learning of the Egyptians, and so came to the contemplation of Him Who Is.

The perpetual combat in his breast between the religion of Calvin, which he was obliged to preach, and that of Moses, which was the only religion he believed, produced a long illness.

A village magistrate, or the magistrate of a city, is neither a Moses nor a Joshua.

Next, He bids him learn the greatness of the Saviour after Him, and the newness of the grace, since indeed, according to the Apostle, the Law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ;

‘Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up seed to his brother.

truly I have perceived a fire, and perhaps I shall bring you a brand from it, or find at the fire a guidance», and «put off your two sandals;

For if they are told, point us to its quarter and set us at its boundary, and no blame to you — they claim that whoever seeks it has al-ṣarfah cast upon his heart, so that they become like the companions of Mūsā in the wilderness.

And had we supposed its existence, it would have had to be before the books of Moses by a span whose measure we do not know, for when those books were written there was no trace of mother-right at all.

The code of Alfred would not fill twelve [61] pages of the statute book of Massachusetts, and was little or nothing else than a compilation of the laws of Moses, and the Saxon customs, evidently collected from considerations of convenience, rather than enacted on the principle of authority.