AN EXAMINATION

OF

BP. COLENSO'S DIFFICULTIES

WITH REGARD TO

THE PENTATEUCH;

AND

SOME REASONS FOR BELIEVING IN ITS AUTHENTICITY

AND DIVINE ORIGIN.

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BY THE REV.

ALEXANDER MCCAUL, D.D.

PROFESSOR OF HEBREW AND OLD TESTAMENT EXEGESIS,
KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.

NEW EDITION, WITH ADDITIONAL NOTES.

LONDON:

RIVINGTONS, WATERLOO PLACE.

1863.

LONDON:

GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS,

ST. JOHN'S SQUARE.

PREFACE.

HAVING been requested by friends to furnish solutions to Bishop Colenso's difficulties, I hastened, as soon as health and leisure permitted, to examine his controversial statements, and now present the results of the examination. His lordship's preface has been left unnoticed, because the narrative contained in it seems to be beset with difficulties as grave as any which he has found in the Pentateuch. But, after the consideration of his objections to this sacred Book, I have thought it well to add some reasons for believing in its authenticity and Divine origin; and have therefore traced the outline of an argument, which all readers of the English Bible may fill up for themselves; and which may serve generally as