eet: for the
place wherein thou standest is holy ground.
7:34. Seeing, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt:
and I have heard their groaning and am come down to deliver them. And
now come: and I will send thee into Egypt.
7:35. This Moses, whom they refused, saying: Who hath appointed thee
prince and judge? Him God sent to be prince and redeemer, by the hand of
the angel who appeared to him in the burning bush.
7:36. He brought them out, doing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt
and in the Red Sea and in the desert, forty years.
7:37. This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel: A prophet
shall God raise up to you of your own brethren, as myself. Him shall you
hear.
7:38. This is he that was in the church in the wilderness, with the
angel who spoke to him on Mount Sina and with our fathers. Who received
the words of life to give unto us.
7:39. Whom our fathers would not obey: but thrust him away and in their
hearts turned back into Egypt,
7:40. Saying to Aaron: Make us gods to go before us. For as for this
Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is
become of him.
7:41. And they made a calf in those days and offered sacrifices to the
idol and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
7:42. And God turned and gave them up to serve the host of heaven, as it
is written in the books of the prophets: Did you offer victims and
sacrifices to me for forty years, in the desert, O house of Israel?
7:43. And you took unto you the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of
your god Rempham, figures which you made to adore them. And I will carry
you away beyond Babylon.
7:44. The tabernacle of the testimony was with our fathers in the
desert, as God ordained for them, speaking to Moses, that he should make
it according to the form which he had seen.
7:45. Which also our fathers receiving, brought in with Jesus, into the
possession of the Gentiles: whom God drove out before the face of our
fathers, unto the days of David,
Jesus... That is Josue, so called in Greek.
7:46. Who found grace before God and desired to find a tabernacle for
the God of Jacob.
7:47. But Solomon built him a house,
7:48. Yet the most High dwelleth not in houses made by hands, as the
prophet saith:
Dwelleth not in houses, etc... That is, so as to stand in need of
earthly dwellings, or to be contained, or circumscribed by them. Though,
otherwise by his immense divinity, h
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