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 1      IX|         IX. -- THE ANTIQUITY OF MOSES PROVED BY GREEK WRITERS.~ ~
 2      IX|     first prophet and lawgiver, Moses; first explaining the times
 3      IX|    Greek histories show us, was Moses, who was our first religious
 4      IX|        to have been earth-born, Moses is mentioned as the leader
 5      IX|         the Egyptians, and that Moses led them. And Ptolemaeus
 6      IX|        Josephus, have mentioned Moses as a very ancient and time-honoured
 7      IX|       the Egyptian priests that Moses was an ancient lawgiver,
 8      IX|        regulated, they say that Moses first persuaded the people
 9      IX|  ancient lawgivers, he mentions Moses first. For he spoke in these
10      IX|    Among the Jews they say that Moses ascribed his laws s to that
11       X|     TRAINING AND INSPIRATION OF MOSES.~ ~These things, ye men
12       X|     concerning the antiquity of Moses by those who were not of
13       X|    Egyptian priests, among whom Moses was not only born, but also
14       X|   history of the Jews, say that Moses was sprung from the race
15      XI|      HEATHEN ORACLES TESTIFY OF MOSES.~ ~But as you do not see
16      XI|   written regarding the life of Moses by those who do not belong
17      XI|          and when you know that Moses and the rest of the prophets
18     XII|    CHAPTER XII. -- ANTIQUITY OF MOSES PROVED.~ ~And I think it
19     XII| recognise also the antiquity of Moses. But lest, by a complete
20     XII|         see that the history of Moses is by far more ancient than
21     XII|      the history of the prophet Moses, which he wrote in the Hebrew
22    XIII|       says that the writings of MoSes and of the rest of the prophets
23     XIV|    profited by the godliness of Moses and his ancestry. For I
24     XIV|     advantage of the history of Moses, afterwards published doctrines
25      XX|         likely, the doctrine of Moses and the other prophets regarding
26      XX|      Egypt that God had said to Moses, when He was about to send
27     XXI|       God did not, when He sent Moses to the Hebrews, mention
28     XXI|         this account He said to Moses, "I am the Being," that
29     XXI| eradicate it, appeared first to Moses, and said to him, "I am
30    XXII|   unsafe to mention the name of Moses, on account of his teaching
31    XXII|        correspondence with what Moses said regarding God, though
32    XXII|  difference of the article? For Moses said, "He who is," and Plato, "
33     XXV|        that he had learned from Moses and the prophets concerning
34     XXV|      with that saying of God to Moses, "I am the really existing,"
35     XXV|       God desired to signify to Moses His eternity, and therefore
36     XXV|      obviously names the law of Moses "the old tradition," fearing,
37     XXV|          to mention the name of Moses; for he understood that
38     XXV|        clearly enough indicates Moses by the antiquity of the
39     XXV|       chapters, that the law of Moses is not only old, but even
40    XXVI|       that Plato should believe Moses regarding the eternity of
41    XXVI|       think beloved of God, but Moses and the rest of the prophets?
42  XXVIII|       first he transferred what Moses had related as the beginning
43  XXVIII|      creation of the world. For Moses wrote thus: "In the beginning
44  XXVIII|       been much taken with what Moses had written in the Genesis
45  XXVIII|       of what the first prophet Moses said about Paradise? And
46    XXIX|       no other source than from Moses, having learned, indeed,
47    XXIX|       indeed, from the words of Moses the name of form, but not
48    XXIX|    knowledge of the writings of Moses. For Moses wrote that God
49    XXIX|      the writings of Moses. For Moses wrote that God had spoken
50    XXIX|      made, since the writing of Moses spoke thus of the tabernacle: "
51     XXX|         ideas" of these. For as Moses wrote thus, "In the beginning
52     XXX|         The earth was," because Moses said, "And the earth was
53     XXX|         so also concerning man: Moses first mentions the name
54    XXXI|       other source, if not from Moses and the prophets, did he
55  XXXIII|    BEGINNING OF TIME DRAWN FROM MOSES.~ ~And from what source
56  XXXIII|      from the divine history of Moses? For he knew that the creation
57  XXXIII| beginning of all time (for thus Moses wrote, "In the beginning
58  XXXIII|     adopting the expressions of Moses. And from what source did
59   XXXIV|        history. For seeing that Moses history, speaking in the
60   XXXIV|      what they had learned from Moses and the other prophets.~ ~
61    XXXV|      the secular histories that Moses and the rest of the prophets
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