“They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.”
— Abraham
Anyone familiar enough with the Bible to know whether Abraham or Moses came first has almost surely also read Jesus’ story in
Luke 16 about the rich man and Lazarus, so I won’t need to explain to you how Abraham, who
lived and died more than 400 years before Moses, could speak intelligibly about
what either Moses or the Prophets wrote.
In the Lord’s story, Abraham is speaking from Paradise to a dead man in Hades, across the great chasm that divides the two.