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The life of Saint Issa
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And they loved Mossa in Egypt for his kindness and for the compassion which he showed to all those who suffered.
Seeing that the Israelites would not, in spite of the intolerable sufferings which they endured, abandon their God to worship those which the hand of man had made and which were the gods of the Egyptians,
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Mossa believed in their invisible God who did not allow their weakened forces to fail,
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And the Israelite teachers excited the ardour of Mossa and implored him to intercede with Pharaoh his father, in favour of his co-religionists.
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The Prince Mossa applied to his father imploring him to ameliorate the fate of the unfortunate people, but Pharaoh was enraged against him and only increased the torments of his slaves.
13 Shortly afterwards, a great misfortune visited Egypt; the plague cut down the young and the old, the sick and the well, Pharaoh believed that his own gods were angry with him;
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But Prince Mossa told his father that it was the God of the slaves who was interceding in favour of the unfortunates and was punishing the Egyptians;
