and Jesus said to him, "Be careful to tell no one, but go and show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift which Moses appointed as evidence for them."

And suddenly Moses and Elijah appeared to them conversing with Him.

Then Peter said to Jesus, "Master, we are thankful to you that we are here. If you approve, I will put up three tents here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

"Why then," said they, "did Moses command the husband to give her 'a written notice of divorce,' and so put her away?"

"Moses," He replied, "in consideration of the hardness of your nature permitted you to put away your wives, but it has not been so from the beginning.

"Teacher," they said, "Moses enjoined, 'If a man die childless, his brother shall marry his widow, and raise up a family for him.'

"The Scribes," He said, "and the Pharisees sit in the chair of Moses.

and saying, "Be careful not to tell any one, but go and show yourself to the Priest, and for your purification present the offerings that Moses appointed as evidence for them."

For Moses said, 'Honour thy father and thy mother' and again, 'He who curses father or mother, let him die the death.'

Moreover there appeared to them Elijah accompanied by Moses; and the two were conversing with Jesus,

when Peter said to Jesus, "Rabbi, we are thankful to you that we are here. Let us put up three tents--one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

"What rule did Moses lay down for you?" He answered.

"Moses," they said, "permitted a man to draw up a written notice of divorce, and to send his wife away."

"It was in consideration of your stubborn hearts," said Jesus, "that Moses enacted this law for you;

"Rabbi," they said, "Moses made it a law for us: 'If a man's brother should die and leave a wife, but no child, the man shall marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.'

But as to the dead, that they rise to life, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?'

And when the days for their purification appointed by the Law of Moses had passed, they took Him up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord--

He ordered him to tell no one. "But go," He said, "show yourself to the Priest, and make the offering for your purification which Moses appointed, as evidence for them."

And suddenly there were two men conversing with Him, who were Moses and Elijah.

And when they were preparing to depart from Him, Peter said to Jesus, "Rabbi, we are thankful to you that we are here. Let us put up three tents--one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." He did not know what he was saying.

"'They have Moses and the Prophets,' replied Abraham; 'let them hear them.'

"'If they are deaf to Moses and the Prophets,' replied Abraham, 'they would not be led to believe even if some one should rise from the dead.'"

"Rabbi, Moses made it a law for us that if a man's brother should die, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.

But that the dead rise to life even Moses clearly implies in the passage about the Bush, where he calls the Lord 'The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'

And, beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them the passages in Scripture which refer to Himself.

And He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you--that everything must be fulfilled that is written in the Law of Moses and in the Prophets and the Psalms concerning me."

For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Then Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him about whom Moses in the Law wrote, as well as the Prophets--Jesus, the son of Joseph, a man of Nazareth."

And just as Moses lifted high the serpent in the Desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

"Do not suppose that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, namely Moses, on whom your hope rests.

For if you believe Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

"In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that Moses did not give you the bread out of Heaven, but my Father is giving you the bread--the true bread--out of Heaven.

Did not Moses give you the Law? And yet not a man of you obeys the Law. Why do you want to kill me?"

Consider therefore. Moses gave you the rite of circumcision (not that it began with Moses, but with your earlier forefathers)

Now, in the Law, Moses has ordered us to stone such women to death. But what do you say?"

Then they railed at him, and said, "You are that man's disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

We know that God spoke to Moses; but as for this fellow we do not know where he comes from."

Moses declared, "'The Lord your God will raise up a Prophet for you from among your brethren as He has raised me. In all that He says to you, you must listen to Him.

Then they privately put forward men who declared, "We have heard him speak blasphemous things against Moses and against God."

For we have heard him say that Jesus, the Nazarene, will pull this place down to the ground and will change the customs which Moses handed down to us."

At this time Moses was born--a wonderfully beautiful child; and for three months he was cared for in his father's house.

So Moses was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, and possessed great influence through his eloquence and his achievements.

"Alarmed at this question, Moses fled from the country and went to live in the land of Midian. There he became the father of two sons.

When Moses saw this he wondered at the sight; but on his going up to look further, the voice of the Lord was heard, saying,

"'I am the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob.' "Quaking with fear Moses did not dare gaze.

"The Moses whom they rejected, asking him, 'Who appointed you magistrate and judge?' --that same Moses we find God sending as a magistrate and a deliverer by the help of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

This is the Moses who said to the descendants of Israel, "'God will raise up a Prophet for you, from among your brethren, just as He raised me up.'

They said to Aaron, "'Make gods for us, to march in front of us; for as for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'

"Our forefathers had the Tent of the Testimony in the Desert, built as He who spoke to Moses had instructed him to make it in imitation of the model which he had seen.

and in Him every believer is absolved from all offences, from which you could not be absolved under the Law of Moses.

But certain men who had belonged to the sect of the Pharisees but were now believers, stood up in the assembly, and said, "Yes, Gentile believers ought to be circumcised and be ordered to keep the Law of Moses."

For Moses from the earliest times has had his preachers in every town, being read, as he is, Sabbath after Sabbath, in the various synagogues."

Now what they have been repeatedly told about you is that you teach all the Jews among the Gentiles to abandon Moses, and that you forbid them to circumcise their children or observe old-established customs.

Having, however, obtained the help which is from God, I have stood firm until now, and have solemnly exhorted rich and poor alike, saying nothing except what the Prophets and Moses predicted as soon to happen,

So they arranged a day with him and came to him in considerable numbers at the house of the friends who were entertaining him. And then, with solemn earnestness, he explained to them the subject of the Kingdom of God, endeavouring from morning till evening to convince them about Jesus, both from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets.

Yet Death reigned as king from Adam to Moses even over those who had not sinned, as Adam did, against Law. And in Adam we have a type of Him whose coming was still future.

No, indeed; the solution is found in His words to Moses, "Wherever I show mercy it shall be nothing but mercy, and wherever I show compassion it shall be simply compassion."

Moses says that he whose actions conform to the righteousness required by the Law shall live by that righteousness.

But again, did Israel fail to understand? Listen to Moses first. He says, "I will fire you with jealousy against a nation which is no nation, and with fury against a nation devoid of understanding."

For in the Law of Moses it is written, "Thou shalt not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain."

All were baptized in the cloud and in the sea to be followers of Moses.

If, however, the service that proclaims death--its code being engraved in writing upon stones--came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily on the face of Moses because of the brightness of his face--a vanishing brightness;

Therefore, cherishing a hope like this, we speak without reserve, and we do not imitate Moses,

Yes, to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies upon their hearts.

I once more protest to every man who receives circumcision that he is under obligation to obey the whole Law of Moses.

For these very men do not really keep the Law of Moses, but they would have you receive circumcision in order that they may glory in *your* bodies.

And just as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also these false teachers withstand the truth--being, as they are, men of debased intellects, and of no real worth so far as faith is concerned.

But they will have no further success; for their folly will be as clearly manifest to all men, as that of the opponents of Moses came to be.

How faithful He was to Him who appointed Him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house!

For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, in so far as he who has built a house has higher honour than the house itself.

Moreover, Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant in delivering the message given him to speak;

For who were they that heard, and yet provoked God? Was it not the whole of the people who had come out of Egypt under the leadership of Moses?

For it is undeniable that our Lord sprang from Judah, a tribe of which Moses said nothing in connection with priests.

and serve a copy and type of the heavenly things, just as Moses was divinely instructed when about to build the tabernacle. For God said, "See that you make everything in imitation of the pattern shown you on the mountain."

For when Moses had proclaimed to all the people every commandment contained in the Law, he took the blood of the calves and of the goats and with them water, scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

Any one who bids defiance to the Law of Moses is put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Through faith the child Moses was hid for three months by his parents, because they saw his rare beauty; and the king's edict had no terror for them.

Through faith Moses, when he grew to manhood, refused to be known as Pharaoh's daughter's son,

and so terrible was the scene that Moses said, "I tremble with fear."

But Michael the Archangel, when contending with the Devil and arguing with him about the body of Moses, did not dare to pronounce judgement on him in abusive terms, but simply said, "The Lord rebuke you."

And they were singing the song of Moses, God's servant, and the song of the Lamb. Their words were, "Great and wonderful are Thy works, O Lord God, the Ruler of all. Righteous and true are Thy ways, O King of the nations.