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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. (11)
Then he fled from Egypt and fed sheep, being thus trained beforehand for pastoral rule. For the shepherd's life is a preparation for sovereignty in the case of him who is destined to rule over the peaceful flock of men, as the chase for those who are by nature warlike. Thence God brought him to lead the Hebrews.
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (6)
What was Moses, that dear man of God? A herdsman. What was David, when the mouth of the Lord called him? A shepherd.
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Life and Teachings of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus (36)
The Egyptians likened humanity to a flock of sheep. The Supreme and Inconceivable Father was the Shepherd, and Hermes was the shepherd dog. The...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXIX (49)
And that ram begat many sheep and fell asleep; and a little sheep became ram in its stead, and became prince and leader of those sheep.
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXIX (28)
But the sheep escaped from that water and went forth into a wilderness, where there was no water and no grass; and they began to open their eyes and t...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XC (1)
And I saw till that in this manner thirty-five shepherds undertook the pasturing (of the sheep), and they severally completed their periods as did the...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXIX (46)
And it went to it and spake to it alone, and raised it to being a ram, and made it the prince and leader of the sheep; but during all these things tho...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXIX (59)
And He called seventy shepherds, and cast those sheep to them that they might pasture them, and He spake to the shepherds and their companions: "Let e...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXIX (14)
And the Lord brought the eleven sheep to live with it and to pasture with it among the wolves: and they multiplied and became many flocks of sheep.
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXIX (38)
Then that sheep, their leader which had become a man, withdrew from them and fell asleep, and all the sheep sought it and cried over it with a great...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXIX (45)
And the Lord of the sheep sent the lamb to another lamb and raised it to being a ram and leader of the sheep instead of that ram which had †forsaken i...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXIX (14)
And in the first 2136 a. m year 0f the fifth week in this jubilee he crossed the Jordan, and dwelt beyond the Jordan, and he pas- tured his sheep from...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXIX (42)
And the dogs and the foxes and the wild boars began to devour those sheep till the Lord of the sheep raised up [another sheep] a ram from their midst,...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXXIV (1)
And in the sixth year of this week of this 2x48 A.M. forty-fourth jubilee Jacob sent his sons to pasture their sheep, and his servants with them, to t...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXIX (16)
And a sheep which had been saved from the wolves fled and escaped to the wild asses; and I saw the sheep how they lamented and cried, and besought the...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXIX (13)
And when those twelve sheep had grown, they gave up one of them to the asses, and those asses again gave up that sheep to the wolves, and that sheep g...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXIX (22)
And the Lord of the sheep went with them, as their leader, and all His sheep followed Him: and his face was dazzling and glorious and terrible to beho...
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 Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 20: Of Adam and Eve's going forth out of Paradise, and of their entering into this World. And then of the true Christian Church upon Earth, and also of the Antichristian Cainish Church. (79)
We are especially to observe in Cain and Abel, what their Purpose was. Cain was a Plowman [or Tiller of the Ground,] and Abel was a Shepherd [or...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXIX (17)
And He called that sheep which had escaped the wolves, and spake with it concerning the wolves that it should admonish them not to touch the sheep.
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XLIV (9)
And Israel sent Judah before him to his son Joseph to examine the Land of Goshen, for Joseph had told his brothers that they should come and dwell the...
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