ing could he suffer, out of the fear
of which he made haste to kill himself? But now let us see the silliest
thing of all:--The king, although he had been informed of these things,
and terrified with the fear of what was to come, yet did not he even
then eject these maimed people out of his country, when it had been
foretold him that he was to clear Egypt of them; but, as Manetho says,
"he then, upon their request, gave them that city to inhabit, which had
formerly belonged to the shepherds, and was called Avaris; whither when
they were gone in crowds," he says, "they chose one that had formerly
been priest of Hellopolls; and that this priest first ordained that they
should neither worship the gods, nor abstain from those animals that
were worshipped by the Egyptians, but should kill and eat them all, and
should associate with nobody but those that had conspired with them;
and that he bound the multitude by oaths to be sure to continue in
those laws; and that when he had built a wall about Avaris, he made
war against the king." Manetho adds also, that "this priest sent to
Jerusalem to invite that people to come to his assistance, and promised
to give them Avaris; for that it had belonged to the forefathers of
those that were coming from Jerusalem, and that when they were come,
they made a war immediately against the king, and got possession of
all Egypt." He says also that "the Egyptians came with an army of
two hundred thousand men, and that Amenophis, the king of Egypt, not
thinking that he ought to fight against the gods, ran away presently
into Ethiopia, and committed Apis and certain other of their sacred
animals to the priests, and commanded them to take care of preserving
them." He says further, that, "the people of Jerusalem came accordingly
upon the Egyptians, and overthrew their cities, and burnt their temples,
and slew their horsemen, and, in short, abstained from no sort of
wickedness nor barbarity; and for that priest who settled their polity
and their laws," he says, "he was by birth of Hellopolis, and his name
was Osarsiph, from Osyris the god of Hellopolis, but that he changed his
name, and called himself Moses." He then says that "on the thirteenth
year afterward, Amenophis, according to the fatal time of the duration
of his misfortunes, came upon them out of Ethiopia with a great army,
and joining battle with the shepherds and with the polluted people,
overcame them in battle, and slew a great many of th