On Cain and Abel
Ambrose's moral commentary on the story of Cain and Abel, containing a lengthy passage on Moses as a figure of the teacher to come.
Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture
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Praises of Moses from Scripture and the Fathers
— Book 1, chapter 11 quoted at length: Moses as figure of the teacher to come, surpassing human condition, called God
"In Moses," he says, "there was the figure of the teacher to come, who would preach the Gospel, fulfill the Old Testament, establish the New"