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When the vision had informed him of these things, Amram awaked and
told it to Jochebed who was his wife. And now the fear increased upon them
on account of the prediction in Amram's dream; for they were under concern,
not only for the child, but on account of the great happiness that was
to come to him also. However, the mother's labor was such as afforded a
confirmation to what was foretold by God; for it was not known to those
that watched her, by the easiness of her pains, and because the throes
of her delivery did not fall upon her with violence. And now they nourished
the child at home privately for three months; but after that time Amram,
fearing he should be discovered, and, by falling under the king's displeasure,
both he and his child should perish, and so he should make the promise
of God of none effect, he determined rather to trust the safety and care
of the child to God, than to depend on his own concealment of him, which
he looked upon as a thing uncertain, and whereby both the child, so privately
to be nourished, and himself should be in imminent danger; but he believed
that God would some way for certain procure the safety of the child, in
order to secure the truth of his own predictions. When they had thus determined,
they made an ark of bulrushes, after the manner of a cradle, and of a bigness
sufficient for an infant to be laid in, without being too straitened: they
then daubed it over with slime, which would naturally keep out the water
from entering between the bulrushes, and put the infant into it, and setting
it afloat upon the river, they left its preservation to God; so the river
received the child, and carried him along. But Miriam, the child's sister,
passed along upon the bank over against him, as her mother had bid her,
to see whither the ark would be carried, where God demonstrated that human
wisdom was nothing, but that the Supreme Being is able to do whatsoever
he pleases: that those who, in order to their own security, condemn others
to destruction, and use great endeavors about it, fail of their purpose;
but that others are in a surprising manner preserved, and obtain a prosperous
condition almost from the very midst of their calamities; those, I mean,
whose dangers arise by the appointment of God. And, indeed, such a providence
was exercised in the case of this child, as showed the power of God.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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- LSJ, ἀντιπαρ-έξειμι
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