"Motto, Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God."
[Note 1: 1 A copy of this report, in the writing of James Lovell, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 23, folio 143. The original idea was formed by Du Simitière, and his own account of it is in the Jefferson Papers, Fifth Series, VIII, No. 3. It differs from the report printed above in some particulars:
In the Jefferson Manuscripts in the Library of Congress are two notes of suggestion on this seal. One in the writing of Franklin, and the other in that of Jefferson. Franklin's note reads:
"Moses [in the Dress of High Priest] standing on the Shore, and extending his Hand over the Sea, thereby causing the same to overwhelm Pharoah who is sitting in an open Chariot, a Crown on his Head and a Sword in his Hand. Rays from a Pillar of Fire in the Clouds reaching to Moses, [expressing] to express that he acts by [the] Command of the Deity.
"Moses [in the Dress of High Priest] standing on the Shore, and extending his Hand over the Sea, thereby causing the same to overwhelm Pharoah who is sitting in an open Chariot, a Crown on his Head and a Sword in his Hand. Rays from a Pillar of Fire in the Clouds reaching to Moses, [expressing] to express that he acts by [the] Command of the Deity.
"Motto, Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God."
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