c. AD 97

J. Ap. 1.279

Against Apion 1.279

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

Against Apion

1.279

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

27931. It now remains that I debate with Manetho about Moses. Now the Egyptians acknowledge him to have been a wonderful, and a divine person; nay they would willingly lay claim to him themselves, though after a most abusive and incredible manner; and pretend that he was of Heliopolis, and one of the priests of that place, and was ejected out of it among the rest, on account of his leprosy;