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Passages similar to: Stromata (Miscellanies) — Chapter XXIII: The Age, Birth, and Life of Moses.
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Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XXIII: The Age, Birth, and Life of Moses. (6)
Then, with her maids, the daughter of the king, To bathe her beauty in the cleansing stream, Came near, straight saw, and took and raised me up; And knew me for a Hebrew. Miriam My sister to the princess ran, and said, 'Is it thy pleasure, that I haste and find A nurse for thee to rear this child Among the Hebrew women?' The princess Gave assent. The maiden to her mother sped, And told, who quick appeared. My own Dear mother took me in her arms. Then said The daughter of the king: 'Nurse me this child, And I will give thee wages.' And my name Moses she called, because she drew and saved Me from the waters on the river's bank.
The Masnavi
Moses and Pharaoh (Summary)
Then follows a long account of the birth of Moses, of Pharaoh's devices to kill him in his infancy, of his education in Pharaoh's house, of his...
The Masnavi
The Man who made a Pet of a Bear. 1 (11-20)
In you too has God created infant needs; When they cry out, their milk is brought to them; God said, "Call on God;" continue crying, Moses said to...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XLVI (16)
The Birth and Early Years oi Moses
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XVII (13)
And the child grew and became an archer, and God was with him ; and his mother took him a wife from among the daughters of Egypt.
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Tabernacle in the Wilderness (3)
The true name of the Grand Old Man of Israel who is known to history as Moses will probably never be ascertained. The word Moses, when understood in...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXV (19)
And as thou hast refreshed thy mother's spirit during tmyt * ne» The womb of her that bare thee blesseth thee, [My affection] and my breasts bless the...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XV (6)
One o'er the cradle kept her studious watch, And in her lullaby the language used That first delights the fathers and the mothers; Another, drawing...
The Masnavi
The Arab and his Wife (31-40)
They have no tenderness or gentleness or amity, Love and tenderness are qualities of humanity, Woman is a ray of God, not a mere mistress, The...
The Masnavi
The Arab and his Wife (51-60)
Moses and I are Thy nurslings both alike, Some of these branches Thou plantest in the ground, Can branch strive against axe? Not so. Can branch elude...
The Masnavi
The Pauper and the Prisoners (65-74)
He did all this, yet Moses was born, Had he but seen the Eternal workshop, Within his house was Moses safe and sound, Just so the slave of lusts who...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XLVIII (13)
And I stood between the Egyptians and Israel, and we delivered Israel out of his hand, and out of the hand of his people, and the Lord brought them th...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XVII (10)
And his mother took him and cast him under an olive tree, and went and sather down over against him, at the distance of a bow-shot ; for she said, " L...
Exegesis on the Soul
Virginity and Defilement (4)
She became a poor desolate widow, helpless. In her affliction she had no food. From them she had gathered nothing but the defilements when they...
Exegesis on the Soul
The Marriage (8)
Hear, my daughter, and see me and bend your ear, and forget your people and your father's house, for the king has desired your beauty, and he is your...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Cross and the Crucifixion (3)
Moses beheld a visionary being in the midst of this tree (the burning bush) and from it cut the magical rod with which he was able to bring water out...
The Masnavi
The Arab and his Wife (41-50)
Were it not for this yoke who would boast, 'I am ?' Because Thou hast made Moses' face bright as the moon, Can my star ever shine brighter than the...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 13: Of the Creating of Woman out of Adam. The fleshly, miserable, and dark Gate. (7)
Now thus says Reason; What are then the Words of Moses concerning the Woman? To which I say; Moses has written right, but I (living thus P in the...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter XVII (58)
I was conceived by Isis and begotten by Nephthys. Isis destroyeth what in me is wrong, and Nephthys loppeth off that which is rebellious
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXXV (5)
Tell me, mother, what perversity hast thou seen in me and I shall turn away from it, and mercy will be upon me." (>. And she said unto him : " My...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XLVIII (14)
He took vengeance on ,, of them, and one thousand strong and energetic men were destroyed on account of one suckling of the children of thy people whi...
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