r father, she showed him to him, and said she
thought to make him her successor, if it should please God she should
have no legitimate child of her own; and to him, "I have brought up a
child who is of a divine form, [21] and of a generous mind; and as I
have received him from the bounty of the river, in, I thought proper to
adopt him my son, and the heir of thy kingdom." And she had said this,
she put the infant into her father's hands: so he took him, and hugged
him to his breast; and on his daughter's account, in a pleasant way, put
his diadem upon his head; but Moses threw it down to the ground, and,
in a puerile mood, he wreathed it round, and trod upon his feet, which
seemed to bring along with evil presage concerning the kingdom of Egypt.
But when the sacred scribe saw this, [he was the person who foretold
that his nativity would the dominion of that kingdom low,] he made a
violent attempt to kill him; and crying out in a frightful manner, he
said, "This, O king! this child is he of whom God foretold, that if we
kill him we shall be in no danger; he himself affords an attestation to
the prediction of the same thing, by his trampling upon thy government,
and treading upon thy diadem. Take him, therefore, out of the way, and
deliver the Egyptians from the fear they are in about him; and deprive
the Hebrews of the hope they have of being encouraged by him." But
Thermuthis prevented him, and snatched the child away. And the king was
not hasty to slay him, God himself, whose providence protected Moses,
inclining the king to spare him. He was, therefore, educated with great
care. So the Hebrews depended on him, and were of good hopes great
things would be done by him; but the Egyptians were suspicious of what
would follow such his education. Yet because, if Moses had been slain,
there was no one, either akin or adopted, that had any oracle on his
side for pretending to the crown of Egypt, and likely to be of greater
advantage to them, they abstained from killing him.

CHAPTER 10. How Moses Made War With The Ethiopians.

1. Moses, therefore, when he was born, and brought up in the foregoing
manner, and came to the age of maturity, made his virtue manifest to the
Egyptians; and showed that he was born for the bringing them down, and
raising the Israelites. And the occasion he laid hold of was this:--The
Ethiopians, who are next neighbors to the Egyptians, made an inroad into
their country, which they seized upon,