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    the Apostle Paul ( Gal . iii . 17 ) following the Septuagint , makes th £ whole interval , from the covenant with Abraham to the giving of the law , only 430 years . The weight of textual authority is in favour of the longer period , and 215 years would be indeed a narrow term for the increase of 70 souls td 600 , 000 males . Great difficulties , however , remain , even if the longer time be adopted .

    Job xxxi . 26 , 27 . " If I beheld the sun when it shined , or the moon walking in brightness , and my heart hath been secretly enticed , or my mouth hath kissed my hand , this were an iniquity for the judge . " " In a fragment of a homily composed by S . Schenouti , " says M . Champollion , Precis , p . 96 , " he inveighs strongly against those of the inhabitants of

    Egypt who persist in their idolatry . Woe , says he , to him who , lifting his hand towards his mouth , adores , saying , Hail , O Pre or , Be victorious , O Pooh ! " See note on Gen . xli . 45 . This was probably the prevailing idolatry of Arabia . Herodotus , iii . 8 , represents the Arabians as worshiping Urotal and Alilat , on which Wesseling observes , " Designantur duo totius orientis praecipua numina , Sol et Luna . "

    Ps . ex . 1 . « The Hykshos , " says M . Champollion , ( Lettre I . p . 57 , ) " are represented prostrate and bound upon the footstools of the thrones of the Pharaohs , which recals , in a lively manner , the verse of the Psalmist ; ponam inimicos tuos in scabellum pedum tuorum . " The " ponam in scabellum" of the Vulgate has made the resemblance appear more close than perhaps it really is , but the fact mentioned may still serve as an illustration of the general meaning .

    From the departure of the Israelites , there is a long interval during which no connexion is recorded between Judea and Egypt . Solomon is said to have married a daughter of the King of Egypt , 1 Kings iii . 1 , but as he is only designated by the general name of Pharaoh , we can fix nothing in chronology by this mention of him . In the reign of Rehoboam , however , we find , for the first time , a sovereign of Egypt , designated by his proper name , Shishak , invading the Holy Land and plundering the temple and

    palace of Jerusalem , 1 Kings xiv . 25 . It was the opinion of Marsham and Newton , that the Shishak or Sesac of the Scriptures was the Sesostris of Egyptian history , and indeed the desire to establish this identity and reduce the ancient history of other countries into conformity with it , may be said to have given birth to our illustrious countryman ' s system of chronology . The century which has elapsed since his death has placed his fame , as a

    discoverer in physics and astronomy , on a pinnacle which no other human being has approached , but has produced a very different effect on his chronological speculations . Sir Isaac Newton was above the danger of error in the astronomical calculations which are the basis of his system , as applied to the Grecian history ; but astronomy alone could not solve the question ; it was necessary to connect its data with historical testimony , and the first link which was to create this connexion proved unsound ; ? while the assumption

    admits , I think , only of the interpretation given in the text The LXX ., by rendering lIHtf * * Wtt not o ? but vjv naTyx ^ crav , gives it a different torn . Even their rendering , however , might have been reconciled with the Hebrew , considering the words only in themselves ; but it is evident from Josephus , Ant . ii . 15 , 2 , and Gal . iii . 17 , that those who used this version understood them as including the whole residence of the Patriarchs in Canaan .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1827, page 317, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1796/page/5/