Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

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    Pharaoh

    historical figure · 7 works · 13 mentions · 13 anchored passages

    a certain tyrant Pharaoh · king of the Egyptians · the king of Egypt · the slayer of newborns

    in the texts

    LettersLate Antiquity · Greek

    Egyptian king to whom Moses was appointed as a god.

    "I have given you as a god to Pharaoh.
    letter 189
    The Scripture knows of chariots having warriors of the third rank as riders, because the rest of the chariots had two riders, the driver and the man-at-arms;
    reply to comrade alexander ilyich notkin
    and assuredly, even if the penalties do not lay hold of him at once, as in the case of Pharaoh, yet at some later time they will bring him a heavy and painful retribution.
    letter 61

    The Rights of War and PeaceRenaissance · English

    Ruler under whom Joseph administered Egypt's monopoly

    a noble instance of which we find in the history of Joseph, who governed Egypt under the auspices of Pharaoh.
    chapter 18
    Thus Joseph is said to have sworn by the life of Pharaoh, according to the received custom of the Egyptians.
    chapter 19
    Thus Pharaoh purchased all the land in Egypt, and others have admitted strangers into their territories allowing them to hold lands upon such conditions.
    chapter 47

    Adversus MarcionemLate Antiquity · Latin

    The biblical Egyptian king who ordered the killing of Hebrew infants, invoked as a comparison for Marcion's god's opposition to procreation.

    There will be no fiercer hardness than Pharaoh's, the slayer of newborns.
    book 1
    He hardened Pharaoh's heart:
    book 2
    but by which, as good, he so loves the little ones that in Egypt he did good to the midwives, who protected the Hebrew births endangered by the edict of Pharaoh.
    book 4

    Barlaam and JosaphatMedieval · Greek

    The Egyptian ruler who enslaved the Israelites and was destroyed pursuing them through the Red Sea.

    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 …
    chapter 7

    Ad NationesLate Antiquity · Latin

    Egyptian king in the Joseph narrative.

    The youngest among the rest of the brothers, but loftier in genius, sold into Egypt by those same brothers through envy, he served in the household of the king of the Egyptians, Pharaoh.
    book 2

    Adversus JudaeosLate Antiquity · Latin

    Egyptian ruler whose dominion is cited as limited to Egypt, contrasted with Christ's universal kingdom.

    if Pharaoh ruled the Egyptians, or whoever succeeded him in his hereditary kingdom, there only did he obtain the dominion of his kingdom;
    adversus judaeos

    De AnimaLate Antiquity · Latin

    Egyptian ruler deceived by the illusion of magicians' wands turning into dragons.

    Bodies, in short, the dragons of the magical wands seemed to Pharaoh and the Egyptians.
    de anima