an? And Moses feared, and said,
Surely this thing is known.

The meekest of men slays an Egyptian deliberately and in cold blood. It
may be pleaded that the Egyptian was doing wrong; but the remarks of the
Hebrew suggest that even the countrymen of Moses looked upon his act of
violence with disfavour.

But the meekness of Moses is further illustrated in the laws attributed
to him, in which the death penalty is almost as common as it was in
England in the Middle Ages.

Also, in the thirty-first chapter of Numbers we have the following
story. The Lord commands Moses to "avenge the children of Israel of the
Midianites," after which Moses is to die. Moses sends out an army:

And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded
Moses; and they slew all the males.

And they slew the kings of Midian, besides the rest of them
that were slain; namely Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur,
and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor
they slew with the sword.

And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian
captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all
their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.

And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all
their goodly castles, with fire.

And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men
and of beasts....

And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the
captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which
came from the battle.

And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

Behold, these called the children of Israel, through the counsel
of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of
Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord.

Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill
every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

But all the women children that have not known a man by lying
with him, keep alive for yourselves.

Moses is a patriarch of the Jews, and the meekest man. But suppose any
pagan or Mohammedan general were to behave to a Christian city as Moses
behaved to the people of Midian, what should we say of him? But God was
_pleased_ with him.

Further, in the sixteenth chapter of Numbers you will find how Moses the
Meek treated Korah, Dathan, and Abiram for rebelling against himsel