This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...ruby being set before Moses he took the coal and nut it into his mouth, and burnt his tongue; and thereupon he was pardoned. This is a Jewish story a little altered. The commentators say, that his mother accordingly made an ark of the papyruH, and pitched it and put in some cotton; and having laid the child therein ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...ruby being set before Moses he took the coal and nut it into his mouth, and burnt his tongue; and thereupon he was pardoned. This is a Jewish story a little altered. The commentators say, that his mother accordingly made an ark of the papyruH, and pitched it and put in some cotton; and having laid the child therein committed it to the river, a branch of which went into Pharaoh's garden: that the stream carried the ark thither into a fishpond, at the head of which Pharaoh was then Bitting, with his wife Asiya, the daughter of Mozahem; and that the king, having commanded it to be taken up and opened, and finding in it a beautiful child, took a fancy to it, and ordered it to be brought np. Some writers mention a miraculous preservation of Moses before he was put into the ark; and tell us, that his mother having hid him from Pharaoh's officers in an oven, his sister, in her mother's absence, kindled a large fire in the oven to heat it, not knowing the child Whs there, hut that he was afterwards taken out unhurt. b The Mohammedans pretend that several nurses were brought, but the child refused to take the breast of any, till his sister Miriam, who went to learn news of him, told them she would find a nurse, and brought his mother. 0 The Jews pretend he was actually imprisoned for the fact, and condemned to be beheaded, but that, when he should have suffered, his neck became as hard as ivory, and the sword rebounded on the executioner. i For he was obliged to abandon his country and his friends, didst dwell some years among the inhabitants of Madian. Then thou earnest hither according to our decree, O Moses; (43) And I have chosen thee for myself: (44; Wherefore go thou and thy brother" with my signs; and be not negligent in remembering me. (45) Go ye unto P...
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Add this copy of The Biblical Characters, and Other Sages of the Quran to cart. $49.69, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by Nabu Press.
