The Christian Topography of Cosmas, an Egyptian Monk (Volume 98)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1897. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... In which is contained a description of the Tabernacle, and in which the harmony is exhibited of the Prophets and Apostles. F the Tabernacle which was prepared by Moses in the wilderness, it is now time to give a description, as we have received it from that most divine man and teacher. And having made divine scripture our1 starting point and accepted its testimonies, we begin with the exodus from Egypt, when the first-born of the Egyptians died, suffering the last of the plagues brought upon them through Moses--when also the Israelites, after having sacrificed, ate the Passover standing, having their loins girt, and holding staffs in their hands, ready prepared for their departure, on the first day of the first month at evening on the fourteenth day of the moon, which things were a shadow and type of the things that would be under the Lord Christ, namely, the deliverance from tyrannical bondage, the renovation of the world, accomplished by the resurrection from the dead, and 1 According to the reading of the Greek text (noujo-a/1fVou, dpfcafUvov), which Montfaucon follows in his Latin version, his should be substituted for our; but as Cosmas can neither have meant that AfotesmaAe divine scripture, which did not yet exist, his starting-point {ras dfyoppas), nor that the narrative of Moses began with the destruction of the firstborn of the Egyptians, I have taken as the proper readings nmrjadpfvm and apfcajitvos. the everlasting rest into which men shall enter. For at that very season of the year the world appears to have been created by God, and to have had its beginning. Likewise also in the time of Noah after the Deluge, there was again at that season a beginning of the world. It was the season again when there took place the deliverance of the Israelites from ...