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Holy Prophet Moses the God-seer 9/17/2013
A great leader and lawgiver of the people of Israel. He was born in Egypt about 1550 B.C. For forty years he had lived at the court of the Pharaoh; for forty years he had lived as a pastor in contemplation of God and the world; and the last forty years of his life he led the people through the desert to the Promised Land, which he saw, yet not trod on it, for he sinned before the Lord in one thing (4 Moses 20, 12). He fell asleep in the Lord when he was one hundred and twenty years old. As a miracle-worker, according to the words of St Basil the Great, Moses was a pre-image of Christ. He appeared on the mountain of Tabor at the transfiguration of the Lord. And according to the testimony of St John of the Ladder, he appeared to the monks at the monastery of Sinai.
