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Chapter 12: Proving the Ancient Existence of Moses
I FIND IT NECESSARY TO CONSIDER THE TIMES IN WHICH YOUR PHILOSOPHERS LIVED SO YOU CAN SEE THAT THE PERIOD THAT PRODUCED THEM FOR YOU IS VERY RECENT AND SHORT: This will help you recognize the antiquity of Moses. To avoid being overly detailed, I believe the following will suffice: Socrates was the teacher of Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle. These men thrived during the time of Philip and Alexander of Macedon, when the Athenian orators also flourished, as the Philippics of Demosthenes clearly show.
Those who have recounted the deeds of Alexander clearly prove that during his reign, Aristotle was associated with him. With all available evidence, it is clear that the history of Moses is much older than all non-religious histories.
Moreover, it's important for you to understand that nothing was accurately recorded by the Greeks before the era of the Olympiads, and there is no ancient work detailing any actions of the Greeks or Barbarians. Before that period, there existed only the history of the prophet Moses, which he wrote in Hebrew by divine inspiration.
The Greek alphabet was not yet in use, as language experts inform us, saying that Cadmus first brought the letters from Phoenicia to the Greeks. Your first philosopher, Plato, confirms they were a recent discovery. In the "Timaeus," he wrote that Solon, the wisest of the wise men, upon returning from Egypt, told Critias that he heard from a very old Egyptian priest who said to him, “O Solon, Solon, you Greeks are always children, and there is no aged Greek.” He further said, “You are all young in soul because you hold no ancient opinion passed down through tradition or any system of instruction aged with time; all these things are unknown to you because for many generations, the descendants of those ancient times died silent, without the use of letters.” It is essential, therefore, that you understand that all history has been written in these newly discovered Greek letters.
If anyone mentions old poets, legislators, historians, orators, or philosophers, they will find that they composed their works in the Greek alphabet.