Moses the God of Aaron, or the Power and Duty of Princes in Sacred Matters

Greetings to the Benevolent Reader original: "L. B. S.", an abbreviation for Lectori Benevolo Salutem, a standard Latin greeting in early modern books.

I consider it necessary to advise the Benevolent Reader above all else that I have not written for learned men. For such experts, it is easy to examine and judge the lengthy writings of others in which either the whole of sacred law or some part of it is discussed, and to discern the true from the false among the various opinions of many. Rather, I have written for those who are just beginning to cultivate their minds with the study of the liberal arts, so that they might be freed, in some measure, from the great labor and the significant loss of time otherwise required to understand this branch of Natural and Biblical Jurisprudence original: "Jurisprudentiæ Naturalis ac Biblicæ"; this refers to a legal philosophy derived from both human reason/nature and the Holy Scriptures..

Therefore, for their benefit, there now appears MOSES THE GOD OF AARON original: "MOSES DEUS AARONIS", or—what is one and the same thing—THE KING ABOVE THE CHURCH, THE PRINCE AS THE GUARDIAN AND DEFENDER OF RELIGION, THE PRINCE AS THE RULER OF THE CHURCH, and THE SUPREME POWER OF THE PRINCE OVER THE CHURCH.

This title is taken from the book of Moses, Exodus 4:16 In this verse, God tells Moses that his brother Aaron will be his spokesman, and Moses will be "as God" to him.. From that passage, it is clear that when Moses was commanded by God to go before Pharaoh, he made many excuses, and at the last, simply The text cuts off here at the catchword "recu-", likely for the Latin "recusasse," meaning "refused."