Ye shall perform My judgments, and keep My precepts, and walk in them: I am the Lord your God. And ye shall keep all My commandments, and do them. He that doeth them shall live in them. I am the Lord your God." Whether, then, Egypt and the land of Canaan be the symbol of the world and of deceit, or of sufferings and afflictions; the oracle shows us what must be abstained from, and what, being divine and not worldly, must be observed. And when it is said, "The man that doeth them shall live in them," it declares both the correction of the Hebrews themselves, and the training and advancement of us who are nigh: it declares at once their life and ours. For "those who were dead in sins are quickened together with Christ," by our covenant. For Scripture, by the frequent reiteration of the expression, "I am the Lord your God," shames in such a way as most powerfully to dissuade, by teaching us to follow God who gave the commandments, and gently admonishes us to seek God and endeavour to know Him as far as possible; which is the highest speculation, that which scans the greatest mysteries, the real knowledge, that which becomes irrefragable by reason. This alone is the knowledge of wisdom, from which rectitude of conduct is never disjoined.

II. And they * will make to themselves high places and groves and graven images, and they will worship, each his own (graven image), so as to go astra...

Then God stirred up a Prophet among them, even Moses, who gave them Laws, and sharp Doctrines, as Nature required; and these were given them (through...

All this account I have written for thee, and have commanded thee to say to the children of Israel, that they should not commit sin nor transgress...

But they are Thy people and Thy inheritance, which Thou hast delivered with Thy great power u from the hands of the Egyptians : create in them a clean...

And clo thou, Moses, write (it) down for Israel that they may observe it, and do according to these words, and not commit a sin unto death ; for the L...

Further, in that ’tis fitting that the prudent should know all before, it is not right ye should be ignorant of this. The time will come when Egypt...

For they will forget all My commandments, (even) all that I command them, and they will walk after the Gentiles, and after their uncleanness, and afte...

Therefore it lies not in our high Knowledge, for he stands in his Covenant; and the Child that is newly born is as acceptable to him, as an old sinful...

Now, if the profane should see or hear that these things are done by us, they will, I suppose, split with laughter, and commiserate us on our, folly....

¶Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye...

And He said : " Incline thine heart to every word which I shall speak to thee on this Mount, and write them in a book in order that their generations ...

And they shall begin to fight among themselves, And their right hand shall be strong against themselves, And a man shall not know his brother, Nor a s...

And do thou, my son, observe His commandments and His ordinances and His judgments, and walk not after the abominations and after the graven images an...

When, then, the comprehensive melody of the holy Hymns has harmonized the habits of our souls to the things which are presently to be ministered,...

And do not forsake him, nor set him at nought from henceforth unto the days of eternity, and may Thine eyes be opened upon him and upon his seed,* tha...

These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was with you, That all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in...

Here I will faithfully admonish the Reader, deeply to consider Moses, for shere, under the Vail of Moses, he may look upon the Face of Moses: Also he...

And then there shall be bestowed upon the elect wisdom, And they shall all live and never again sin, Either through ungodliness or through pride: But ...

Thus the Soul of Christ rested in the Grave, in the Father, forty Hours present with its Body; for the heavenly Body was not dead, but the earthly...

And everything took place according to thy words ; ten great and terrible judgments came on the land of Egypt that thou mightest execute vengeance on ...