Chapter 11.—When Moses Led the
People Out of Egypt; And Who Were Kings When His Successor Joshua
the Son of Nun Died.
Moses led the people out of Egypt
in the last time of Cecrops king of Athens, when Ascatades reigned
in Assyria, Marathus in Sicyon, Triopas in Argos; and having led
forth the people, he gave them at Mount Sinai the law he received
from God, which is called the Old Testament, because it has earthly
promises, and because, through Jesus Christ, there was to be a New
Testament, in which the kingdom of heaven should be promised. For
the same order behoved to be observed in this as is observed in
each man who prospers in God, according to the saying of the
apostle, “That is not first which is spiritual, but that which is
natural,” since, as he says, and that truly, “The first man of
the earth, is earthly; the second man, from heaven, is
heavenly.” Now
Moses ruled the people for forty years in the wilderness, and died
a hundred and twenty years old, after he had prophesied of Christ
by the types of carnal observances in the tabernacle, priesthood, and sacrifices, and many other mystic ordinances. Joshua the son of Nun succeeded Moses, and settled in the land of promise the people he had brought in, having by divine authority conquered the people by whom it was formerly possessed. He also died, after ruling the people twenty-seven years after the death of Moses, when Amyntas reigned in Assyria as the eighteenth king, Coracos as the sixteenth in Sicyon, Danaos as the tenth in Argos, Ericthonius as the fourth in Athens.