Numbers 12:3

Preliminaries

• TO THE MOST REVEREND AND MOST ILLUSTRIOUS LORD HENRY FRANCIS VAN DER BURCH, ARCHBISHOP AND DUKE OF CAMBRAI, PRINCE OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, COUNT OF CAMBRAI. — Alluded to as Scripture's praise of Moses's meekness

  "Holy Scripture bestows this praise upon Moses: that he was the meekest of all mortals."

Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture

• Moses's Humility and Meekness — Quoted as God's praise of Moses's meekness

  "For Moses was the meekest man upon the face of the earth."

• Moses as the Most Ancient Theologian, Philosopher, Poet, and Historian — Cited as an example of a later editorial insertion into the Mosaic text, since Moses would not have praised himself

  "the praise of Moses' meekness was interwoven at Numbers 12:3"

Commentary on the Pentateuch of Moses

• Argumentum — Cited as an example of a passage interwoven by someone other than Moses

  "it was not Moses but someone else, it seems, who interwove the praise of Moses' meekness in Numbers 12:3"