The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

VERS. XXV.

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For he supposed that his brethren would have understood, &c.

MOSES was endowed with a spirit of Prophesie even in Pharaohs Court, (to which that passage may refer, that he was mighty in words and in deeds) and knew himself designed to redeem Israel out of Egypt, and so he thought that people conceived of him too. For they could not but know the story of his miraculous preservation in his infancy; his Providential education in a Prince's Court, and especially the apparent signs of a Prophetick spirit in him. Which though Moses himself speaks nothing of, yet doth Stephen relate it, not without good authority, and the consent of his Country-men, who all suppose Moses miraculously born, and as wonderfully saved in the Ark of Bulrushes; namely, that he was conceived when his mother was an hundred and thirty years of age; brought forth without any of the pangs of childbirth, and born 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 good, that is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 apt for prophesying g 1.1. Note by the way how that fiction of Josephus h 1.2 concerning Pharaoh's putting his Crown upon the head of the child Moses, and his throwing it to the ground, is told also by the Jewish Rabbins i 1.3 only with this variation, that Moses himself took the Crown from Pharaoh's head and put it upon his own.

Notes

• g 1.1

  Sotah, fol. 12. 1.
• h 1.2

  Antiq. lib. 2. cap. ••.
• i 1.3

  Shemoth, rabb. fol. 118. 3.