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The Propriety of the Judgment . . . 101

The Peculiarity observable in the scattering of the Ashes 103

The Seventh Plague-Rain, Hall, and Fire, attended

with THUNDER . . . . 106

Farther Propriety in these Judgments . . 111

The History illustrated from the Climate and Seasons · 116

PART THIRD.

The Eighth Plague LOCUSTS . . . 118

Instances concerning Locusts, and their Depredations 122

Of the Deities invoked in such Calamities . . 137

The Ninth Plague-PALPABLE DARKNESS

141

Of the Adoration paid to the Sun, and to Fire

144

Night adared as a Primary Deity . . i 149

Recapitulation :

158

The Tenth Plague DEATH OF THE FIRST-BORN 161

Of the Sacred Ordinance which preceded this Event 165

Conclusion . . . . . 170

PART FOURTH. .

A DISSERTATION UPON THE Divine Mission of Moses.

Concerning this Divine Mission . . . 175

Of the Birth of Moses, and his wonderful Preservatiin;

also the Servitude of the Israelites in Egypt . 178

Of Moses in Midian .. . .

188

Of his being appointed by God to free his People

192

Observations upon the Order given to Moses . 194

Considerations upon the Words I AM THAT I AM 198

A farther Consideration

. . . 202

Conclusion upon this Head . . . . 204

Continuation of the Divine Interview, and an Account of

the two Miracles exhibited .. . 206

First, concerning the Symbolical Serpent , 209

Of the Serpenis in the Wilderness, and of the Brazen

Serpent

212

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Objection to the true God explaining himself by the Em

blems of Egypt

215

The true Purport of the Emblem

216

Of the Rod of Moses

218

Concerning the Purport of the Second Miracle

221

Of the Miracle to be renewed

222

Of Moses an Oracle and a reputed Divinity

Moses represented not only as an Oracle, but as a Deity 229

Of the Angel, which withstood Moses in his way to

Egypt .

. . 230

Of the Powers with which Moses was invested : 232

A short Recapitulation of preceding Remarks . . 234

Objection answered .

Observations upon the Route taken by Moser and the Is-

raelites upon their Departure . . 241

The Encampment upon the extreme Point of the Red-sea 244

Of the Israelites Arrival at Sinai

249

Their Attempt to get to the Land of Promise , 251

Of their Procedure after the Death of Moses , 255

Arguments from the Law for its Divine Original - 258

Farther Observations showing the Impossibility of their

Laws being of Human Invention. i .. 265

The Spirit of Truth throughout apparent .

268

The Argument still pursued

271

273

239

Conclusion

.

9 Israel

273

277

Of the Place of Residence given to the Children of Israel

in Egypt, and of their Departure from it .

The Situation of some of the Places determined, upon which

the History depends . . . ;

The Situation of the City Heliopolis more particularly de-

scribed

.:

Of the City Heliopolis of the Desert

Of the City Letopolis

307

310

315

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Of the ancient City Saïs, and of a secondary City of the same

Name :

295

Of the more Ancient City and Province of Saïs

297

Of the Land of Gosheni. . . .

303

Goshen only a part of the Province .

305

Concerning the Purport of this Name

Différent Opinions considered . .

The Departure and Route of the Israelites from Egypt 313

The History of their Departure, as given in Scripture

Concerning the Place of their Departure . 319

Their Journey from Succoth to the Desert of Etham

- from Etham to Phi-Hiroth . .. 323

Of the Transit being at Clysma.

Opinions canvassed .

334

The Alternative

A Recapitulation of the whole

347

The Transit ..

353

Other Objections considered .

355

Review of the Course taken by the Children of Israel in

their journeying : i . . . 367

Further Observations upon the Phænicon, or Grove of

Palms, as it is described by Strabo . i 372

Conclusion concerning the journeying of the Israelites 378

322

330

341

JOURNIES OF Mons. MONCONYS AND OF DR Pocock.

Journey of Monconys, in 1647, to Suez and the Red-sea 383

-- to St Catharine's, at Mount Sinai, p. 411. 385

from St Catharine's back again to Suez, by

Tor and the Red-sea, p. 446.. . . 386

of Pocock, from Cairo to Suez and the Red-sea, .

by another Raad, p. 130.

. 388

- from Suez to Tor, upon the Red-sea, p. 138. 389

The distance of Elim from the Place of Passage

391

OF

EGYPTIAN RITES.

AND

OF THE COLONIES BY WHICH THEY WERE INTRO

DUCED VERY EARLY INTO GREECE.

As some of the evidences, concerning the religion and customs of Egypt, are taken from those which prevailed in Greece; it may be proper to prove, that these customs of the Grecians were certainly borrowed from the former country: and at the same time to shew, at what intervals, and by what persons, they were introduced. For if the rites alluded to were of late date, or doubtful origin, their authority would be of little weight : and no just inference could be made from them. But it will be found, that a near relation subsisted of old between the two nations: that the one was in a great degree constituted by colonies from the other: that these emigrants came over to Hellas in times of very high an

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tiquity: most of them long before the supposed æra of Troy, and became superior to the original inhabitants. They brought with them the religion and rites of the people, from whence they came.. We may therefore from the stream judge of the fountain.

Of some early and particular

MIGRATIONS. First, then, it will be proper to shew that Greece, according to the traditions of the natives, was in great measure peopled from Egypt. Diodorus Siculus tells us, that some of the principal persons upon record among the Athenians were from this country: and that the Athenians in general were from * Egypt. The Peloponnese was for the most part peopled by Dorians: and the ancient leaders of these Dorians, according to ' Herodotus, were of the same original, and came from the same part of the world. The Lele