mbled, and dared not behold. And the Lord said unto him,
'Loose the shoes from thy feet: for the place whereon thou standest is
holy ground. I have surely seen the affliction of my people which is in
Egypt, and have heard their groaning, and I am come down to deliver
them: and now come, I will send thee into Egypt.'

"This Moses whom they refused, saying, 'Who made thee a ruler and a
judge?' him hath God sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand
of the angel which appeared to him in the bush. This man led them forth,
having wrought wonders and signs in Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in
the wilderness forty years.

"This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, {343} 'A
prophet shall God raise up unto you from among your brethren, like unto
me.' This is he that was in the wilderness with the angel which spoke to
him in the Mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received living
oracles to give unto us: to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but
thrust him from them, and turned back in their hearts unto Egypt, saying
unto Aaron, 'Make us gods which shall go before us: for as for this
Moses, who led us forth out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has
become of him.' And they made a calf in those days, and brought a
sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands. But
God turned, and gave them up to serve idols.

"Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness,
even as he appointed who spoke unto Moses, that he should make it
according to the figure that he had seen. Which also our fathers, in
their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered on the possession
of the nations, which God thrust out before the face of our fathers,
unto the days of David; who found favor in the sight of God, and asked
to find a habitation for the God of Jacob. But Solomon built him a
house. Howbeit the Most High dwelleth not in houses made by hands; as
saith the prophet,--

'The heaven is my throne,
And the earth the footstool of my feet:
What manner of house will ye build me? saith the Lord:
Or what is the place of my rest?
Did not my hand make all these things?'
"Ye stiffnecked and unregenerate in heart and ears, ye {344}
do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so
do ye. Which one of the prophets did not your fathers
persecute? and they killed them which showed before of
the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now
become b