purpose, but only as staying to see the child; and she
said, "It is in vain that thou, O queen, callest for these women for the
nourishing of the child, who are no way of kin to it; but still, if thou
wilt order one of the Hebrew women to be brought, perhaps it may admit
the breast of one of its own nation." Now since she seemed to speak
well, Thermuthis bid her procure such a one, and to bring one of those
Hebrew women that gave suck. So when she had such authority given her,
she came back and brought the mother, who was known to nobody there. And
now the child gladly admitted the breast, and seemed to stick close to
it; and so it was, that, at the queen's desire, the nursing of the child
was entirely intrusted to the mother.

6. Hereupon it was that Thermuthis imposed this name Mouses upon him,
from what had happened when he was put into the river; for the Egyptians
call water by the name of Mo, and such as are saved out of it, by the
name of Uses: so by putting these two words together, they imposed this
name upon him. And he was, by the confession of all, according to God's
prediction, as well for his greatness of mind as for his contempt of
difficulties, the best of all the Hebrews, for Abraham was his ancestor
of the seventh generation. For Moses was the son of Amram, who was the
son of Caath, whose father Levi was the son of Jacob, who was the son
of Isaac, who was the son of Abraham. Now Moses's understanding became
superior to his age, nay, far beyond that standard; and when he was
taught, he discovered greater quickness of apprehension than was usual
at his age, and his actions at that time promised greater, when he
should come to the age of a man. God did also give him that tallness,
when he was but three years old, as was wonderful. And as for his
beauty, there was nobody so unpolite as, when they saw Moses, they were
not greatly surprised at the beauty of his countenance; nay, it happened
frequently, that those that met him as he was carried along the road,
were obliged to turn again upon seeing the child; that they left what
they were about, and stood still a great while to look on him; for
the beauty of the child was so remarkable and natural to him on many
accounts, that it detained the spectators, and made them stay longer to
look upon him.

7. Thermuthis therefore perceiving him to be so remarkable a child,
adopted him for her son, having no child of her own. And when one time
had carried Moses to he