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- The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ Why not admit this hypothesis that Moses had dreams of founding a distinct kingdom, the fact that he had an elder brother preventing him from entertaining any hope of ever coming to the throne of Egypt? It was perhaps with this object that he attached himself to the Israelites whom he admired for their firmness in their belief and their bodily strength. We know that the Israelites of Egypt did not at all resemble their descendants physically; the blocks of granite used in building the palaces and pyramids stand. there as evidence of this.
T explain in the same manner the, history of the miracles which Moses might have performed before Pharaoh. Without bringing definite arguments for denying the miracles preformed before Pharaoh in the name of God, you will agree, I think without much difficulty, that the Buddhist version is more probable than the biblical interpretation. The small-pox, plague or cholera must have caused enormous ravages in such an intensely dense population at a time when ideas upon hygiene were still rudimentary and when consequently the disease must have assumed fearful proportions.
Moses, whose intelligence was quick and prompt to show itself, was well able to work on the fears evinced by Pharaoh before the unchained elements, by explaining to him that it was due to the intervention of the God of Israel in favour of his chosen people.
This was the most opportune moment for Moses to deliver the children of Israel from bondage and of bringing them under his own domination.
Conformable to the will of Pharaoh, still according to the Buddhists, Moses led the Israelites beyond the walls of the city; but instead of building a new city near the capital as he had been ordered by Pharaoh, he led them out of the Egyptian territory. One can easily understand the indignation of Pharaoh upon
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