Unknown Life of Jesus Christ Old Edition 1894 Publication

Author(s): Nicholas Notovitch, Virchand R Gandhi, Kumarpal Desai
Publisher: World Jain Confederation

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THE UNKNOWN LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST.
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 ardor of Mossa and implored him to intercede with Pharaoh his father, in favor 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.
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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 favor of the unfortunates and was punishing the Egyptians;
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Pharaoh then ordered Mossa to take all the slaves of the Jewish race and lead them out of the city, and to found at a great distance from the capital another city and there to live with them.
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Mossa told the Hebrew slaves that he had freed them in the name of his God, the God of Israel; he departed with them from the city and from the land of Egypt.
17He led them into the land which they had formerly
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