Moses

And he had also a third name in heaven, after his assumption, as the initiates say, Melchi.

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.

For the first people too had carved anew the crime of the first man, being caught more prone to the belly than to God, when, after they had been snatched from the hardness of the Egyptian bondage by the strong hand of God and the lofty arm, and their Lord had been seen, and they were destined for a land flowing with milk and honey, at once, scandalized at the prospect of the unprovisioned wilderne …

and whoever raises a building by the strength of the poor and the weak, I shall make ruin follow upon his building and shall settle him in the Fire.

when the rational soul is such that the matters of the world cannot bar it from the contemplation of spiritual matters, it becomes easy for it to turn away (1) from the sensibles and to go out of the world [66] with its body as well.

" Then Moses confesses that he is afraid and trembling, hearing about the Word;

The assertion that all private war is not made repugnant to the law of nature by the erection of legal tribunals, may be understood from the law given to the Jews, wherein God thus speaks by the mouth of Moses, Exod.

Surely indeed "the good shepherd lays down his soul for the flock"—as Moses, the Lord Christ being not yet revealed but already figured in himself, says, "If You destroy this people, destroy me also together with it.