The famous and memorable works of Josephus ... / Faithfully translated out of the Latin, and French, by Thomas Lodge, Doctor in Physick.

Josephus

Date:: [1640]

Credit: The famous and memorable works of Josephus ... / Faithfully translated out of the Latin, and French, by Thomas Lodge, Doctor in Physick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$À that they that fubmit their wils unto Gods will. are warranted from: all. wrongs by fuch . meansds were never thought on; which may moft manifeftly be perceived by this childe. : dhermutlis thé kings daughter walking along the river fide , efpied this basket carried: | 9. s | away by the.courfe of the ftream,and prefently commanded certain fwimmers to draw the Ea ay cradle on drie land, and bring it before her : who executing lier command, fhe opened:the dosehte; Có basket arid beheld the childe;whojn that he wasfaireand we]lfeatured did greatly delighr: {th Motes te her; For God foloved arid favonred- Mofes, that-lie caufed him: both to :be nourithed and Mr or: brought up by them, whofor fear left he fhould be born, had.decreed rodeftroy all the reft of the race ofthe Hebrews. Thermuthis theretore commandedthem tofetchher fome one: “S70 nurfe,who might givethe childe fuck: who refufing the fame;andall other nurfeswhatfoe= 777^ of tbe iver they were fent for to fuckle him ; Marsam, as ifby good fortune,and notioffér purpofe; idée E B (he had lightintotheis companie, began tofpeakthus unto 7 hermuthixInwain (fad íhe)O 5901593 queen, doeft thou endeavour, whilft thou ftriveft to give this babefuck byany butan He: UAVS brew nurfe;for he will not accept it:forif thou call unto thee anurfe ofthe fame nationçand agreeable withhis nature; doubtleffe he willtake the nipple: ‘This: fpéech: of hers being both heard; and plaufibly accepted; the queen commanded her to execute the fame;andto bring heran Hebrew woman that gavefuck:which fhe diligently performing, returned;and brought her mother witbher,whom none ofthe affiftants knew; who prefenting her breaft unto the childe, hewillingly took tlie dugge:fo; that upon the queens reqneft,the nourifh- i | ment of the childe was wholly committed unto her.And byreafon of this accident and for i ide d that he was caftinto theriver, he was called A4ofes; for the Ægyptians call water, Mox:and before. Chrifis faved, Yfes:fothis nate, compofed of thefe two;was impofed on this childe ; who after- 79 ste wards,without exceptions, became the wifeft man among the Hebrews; according as God GENE SE had afore prophecied.For he was the feventh after Abraham: for he was Amrams fonneyand. hereceived his Amram onneunto Cathus and he to Levi, and Levito Laco ; who took the originall from $97 € Jfaac,the fonof Abraham, He had a judgement riper then became hisage:for even amongft oun ee C his childifhdelights,he fhewed himfelf more difcreet thenall his equals; and'inwhatfoever Abraham. heidid, it gaveteftimony,that at füch time as he fhould attain to mans eftate;he would ma: nage mightie things. When he wasbut onely three yeerscld, God adorned and endowed him withanadmirable audacitie. He was fo fairand amiable, that there was notany one; how auftere and inhumane foever he were, which but in beholding him, would not be afto- D Lied. And itchanced alfo, that divers, who encountred him as he was born thorow the ftreets; turned themfelvesabout to behold him, arid intermitted their other affairs, onely tolook upon him: for the admirable and innated beautie which was inthisinfant,didravifh 44 7 7. allthofe that beheld him; Whence it cameto paffe;that Thermathis,in that fhe had no other RUE iffue,adopted him forher heir; and conducting him unto her father, fhe prefented him be- of Thermu- fore him, faying, T hat fhe was carefull of'afucceffor, by reafon God had not vouchfafed him oe ee tohavearty iffue;For (faith fhe) [have brought up this infant;no leffe excellent in wit,then divine in beauty; and have received him miraculoufly, bythe bounty and grace of Nilus; vhomIhavé decreed to adopt niy.childe, and to eftablifh him as fucceflour to thee in thy ced and higged himat his breft (to give his daughter the more content) he put hisdiadem upon the childs head:but Mofes pulling it from:his head aftera childifh maner,caft it on the round, arid fpurned it with his feet ; which act of his was fuppofed ominous to the realm, and dangerous forthe king. Whereupon the facred Secretarie (who had fore-told, that his nativitie would be thedeftm&tion of che Ægyptians) willed them to kill-the childe , and enforced himfelf to enact it,crying out with aloud voice, and {peaking unto the king after this manner: O king, this childe, by whofe death God promifeth us fecuritie, hath abeadie confirmed the prefage, infulting over thykingdome, and fpurning at th diademe> Take from the Ægyptians that fear which they Rave conceived through him, by his death ; and j rom the Hebrews that hope, which they build onhis courage and life. But 7 Perzuthis ha- y, eon ftily conveighed and fnatched him thence, and theking was not over-forward to lay hands ed from death; on him, by reafon that God difpenfed all things in that fort, in that he had a cate of Mofes prefervation, :He wastherefore very carefully brought up : and in refpect of him, the He- brews in generall were replenifhed with good hope; buttothe Aigyptians, his education both was fufpected and grudged at: but by reafon that if the lad fhould have been flain,there was not any oné,either akinne,or adopted,or otherwife whatfoever,that had regardof the P eftate ofthe Ægyptians, they abftained from his flaughter. Being therefore thus born, and Hedio & Rs after this manner brought up ; at fuch time as he increafed in yeers; he evidently, by his D. d | | vertue; T anna LISTA eicit s : = == ES eth aut ar i eem TER P À “F- D x y va dE. à RE Ee Rd =$