[124] “God in History,” vol. i., pp. 233-4.
[125] Exodus, xxxiv. 20.
[126] Numbers, xix. 1-10.
[127] As to the god Seth, see Pleyte’s “La Religion des Pré-Israelites” (1862).
[128] Fürst renders the name Mo-cese, “Son of Isis,” Inman’s “Ancient Faiths,” vol. ii., p. 338.
[129] According to Pleyte, the Cabalists thought that the soul of Seth had passed into Moses (op. cit., p. 124). It is strange that the name of the Egyptian princess who is said to have brought up Moses is given by Josephus as Thermuthis, this being the name of the sacred asp of Egypt (see “suprà”). We appear also to have a reference to the serpent in the name Levi, one of the sons of Jacob, from whom the descent of Moses was traced.
[130] “Fragments.” Book xxxiv. (See also in connection with this subject, “King’s Gnostics,” p. 91.)
[131] Bunsen’s “God in History,” vol. i., p. 234.
[132] Ewald notices the fact. (See “op. cit., vol. i., 454.”)
[133] “Egypt,” vol. iii., p. 433.