Holy Prophet Moses the God-Seer

Life

The great leader and lawgiver of the people of Israel. Born in Egypt around 1550 years before Christ. He lived forty years in Egypt at the court of Pharaoh; forty years he lived as a shepherd in the contemplation of God and the world; and the last forty years he led the people through the wilderness to the Promised Land, which he saw but did not enter, for in one thing he sinned against God (Numbers 20:12). He reposed in the Lord in the one hundred and twentieth year of his life. As a wonderworker he was a prototype of Christ, according to the words of Saint Basil the Great. He appeared from the other world on Mount Tabor at the Transfiguration of the Lord. And according to the testimony of Saint John of the Ladder, he also appeared to the monks at the Monastery of Sinai.