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Now Moses lived in all one hundred and twenty years; a third part
of which time, abating one month, he was the people's ruler; and he died
on the last month of the year, which is called by the Macedonians Dystrus,
but by us Adar, on the first day of the month. He was one that exceeded
all men that ever were in understanding, and made the best use of what
that understanding suggested to him. He had a very graceful way of speaking
and addressing himself to the multitude; and as to his other qualifications,
he had such a full command of his passions, as if he hardly had any such
in his soul, and only knew them by their names, as rather perceiving them
in other men than in himself. He was also such a general of an army as
is seldom seen, as well as such a prophet as was never known, and this
to such a degree, that whatsoever he pronounced, you would think you heard
the voice of God himself. So the people mourned for him thirty days: nor
did ever any grief so deeply affect the Hebrews as did this upon the death
of Moses: nor were those that had experienced his conduct the only persons
that desired him, but those also that perused the laws he left behind him
had a strong desire after him, and by them gathered the extraordinary virtue
he was master of. And this shall suffice for the declaration of the manner
of the death of Moses.
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