4 Mofcs his SelfdeniaO. ans, but that he t<lughr the Egyptians the ufe of letters; and therc:tore w~·;.s honoured of th t m by the n~un~ of Mers~romtt.l.l. cHrins. And C lemms a texandrint~s cites one,faying, that Moj(s raught the I{rae- ' lites ltrters,and from tLe ::fewes he faies the Phr£nicians had them, and from the Ph~niciannhc Grecia;ss. 2 • For the beauty or his hod y it was incomparable, when he was borne hu I wi&J exceeding faiN, fo drJs 7· 20. The ddifir· words in the Greeke have a greater emphafis with them then our Englifh exp~d.Iion ha rh; fine, el~ga~t, {o as citizens are whenrhcy are tnmmed up in _j theirbravery,upondayes of fdHvity, · that is the propnety of the word, and this is faid to bee exceeding in the t~xt, it is ,~;; 0fip faire to God, diyinel y beautifull, a kinde of divine beauty was up1 on him, ::t · beau.ty beyond humane \ btanty, fuch beauty as in his very face 1 1 a divine lufire appt>ared. The Scripture ufeth this phrafe to fignifie the highc:fi degree of a thing, as 'frmah 3· a very great citie , it is in the Hebrew . h l .b magna DlO· : C.) here exceeding faire, I IP[ep,. l .2. ,n. :!:!: ~r:. h t I . . ,ap.. r. ) \ vmu;'" Deo. 7 o 1ep us reports o 11m, . . . that·
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