LETTERS BETWEEN REMESES (MOSES) AND OTHER PERSONS.
LETTER I.
Moses beholds the thousands of his countrymen under the lash of the
taskmasters--A prophecy--Visits Tyre and is cordially received by
Queen Epiphia--Tyre--Damascus--He meets the venerable Prince of Uz
(Job)--Nuptials of Sesostris--pp. 432-435.
LETTER II.
Defeat of the King of Cyprus by Sesostris--Moses in Syria--He journeys
to sit at the feet of Job--Cruelty of Pharaoh (Mœris)--The Lake
Amense--pp. 436-438.
LETTER III.
Moses visits Job--The wisdom of Job--His wealth and power--Moses
writes his life--Job leads Moses to the knowledge of the true God--pp.
439-441.
LETTER IV.
Mœris increases the burdens of the Hebrews--Tradition as to the
term of their servitude--Nearly accomplished--Moses, in Syria, yearns
to be with his brethren in Egypt--pp. 442-444.
LETTER V.
Moses determines to visit Egypt--Receives from Job the history of the
Creation--Job's piety and his favor with God--Prayer the path to the
throne of God--King Sesostris and Queen Thamonda--Israelisis--pp.
445-448.
LETTER VI.
Moses departs for Egypt--The Illimitable Sea--Reflections upon the
infinity of God--A storm--Despair of passengers--Their gods unavailing
to save--Moses invokes the true God--The storm ceases--The crowd offer
divine honors to Moses--His anger at their sacrilege--He arrives in
Egypt--Is in the bosom of his family--Oppression of the Hebrews--Their
miraculous increase--Tradition of God's revelation of Himself to
Abram--A miracle!--God's command to Abraham--His obedience--God's
promise--The fulness of time at hand--Woman of salt--City of
Salem--Moses strives to arouse the Hebrews--He is doubted and
discredited--pp. 449-461.
LETTER VII.
Moses, in disguise, sees King Mœris amid his chief captains--
Terrible cruelties inflicted upon the Hebrews--Taskmaster
pursues a Hebrew youth, to kill him--Moses slays the taskmaster--Comes
upon two Hebrews in altercation--He rebukes them--They threaten to
expose him to Pharaoh for slaying the Egyptian--Prophetic inspiration
of Amram, the father of Moses--Moses flees from Egypt--pp. 462-467.
LETTERS OF REMESES OF DAMASCUS TO HIS FATHER, KING SESOSTRIS.
LETTER I.
The young prince visits Egypt--The acts of the Egyptian kings--The
reign of Mœris--He constructs an immense lake--Inauguration of a
temple--Splendid spectacle of idol-worship--Plain of the
Mummies--Enlargement of Memphis--Discovery of treasures beneath the
Sphinx before Chephres--The captive King Occhoris--Increase of
Hebrews--Character of the reigning Pharaoh--His cruelty to the
Hebrews--Good feeling between Hebrew and Egyptian women--Intelligence
of the long-absent Remeses (Moses)--pp. 468-476.
LETTER II.
A caravan from Ezion-geber--Its governor a Midianite--Prince
Jethro--Abram--Moses in Midian--The young prince determines to
accompany the caravan into Midian, and to seek Moses--pp. 477-481.
LETTER III.
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