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Qenesis , must have spoken - * o £ gods , and demi-gods , of millions pf years , and kingdoms of genii , and the like . But this book does not abound so much in matter , it has only a few names ; and why may not these -have been actually brought from ^ he antediluvian world , in Noah ' s Ark ? i >
And wher&the history is fulle r ^ —we meet with no history of the world , no revolutions of states , no conquests of vast territories y—but with family pictures ; the lives of a few shepherds , who are far removed from the splendour of fhfc great conquerors , whom fabulous
story has generally chosen for its subjects . — -Also , how little is the world around them ? Abraham , with four hundred servants , puts to flight four kings with their troops ; which war , however insignificant it may have been , is yet related with an enthusiasm and astonishment , from which it
may easily be perceived , that a war of four emirs against five , was to the narrator an event which had nothing similar to it , in the history of those times , 64 The only passage in Genesis which shews any degree of science
is that earliest map of countries contained ^; in the 10 th chapter-: but , unless we adopt the fancies © f its subsequent commentators , aud through partiality to our own country | ^ dream that Mofees
mentionsithe ancestors of every nation as well as > those of his own , we shall find that this chapter contains nothiog impossible , no cosu mographical accounts of the whole ysopld ^ obut only of those parts visited bjwthe ^ Pbenici&ns , > y *» w ...
V * < fA . 2 i Further , where ^ other na . tionshaKC ^ transmitted credible accaant ** die First Book of Mbses * , v f yp t : *•• •
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need nots fear a comparison . According to Herodotus , the original situation of the * f 4 ienlcians wa * on the borders of the Red SeW * / and their bommeircial spfrit ^ ati tracted a colony of thenr ^ to ttife shore of the Meditertaueain ^ vhirfl
wa ^ situated moire conveniently for the purposes oPcomrnerte . And accordingly , i * Genesis xii . 6 . xiii . T . the Canaanites ar « noticed as a nation which had
only lately emigrated ioto Palestine . (>* The CaWWahiteJ were already in the land ; " i . e ; they were already come into it , front their settlement on the Red ^ Sea)—The repHresentaitidti wBi ch * ' aficietit history * gives 61 F ^ he financial Vegui lations of the Pharoahs ; 14 ih 6
same as that given hi" < jenesis /^ By the account of the latte ^ Wl'lanU- . ed estates , except the possessiaMk of the Priests , ' i > ecathe by tti ^ changes made by Joseph , go 6 d £ 6 { the crown , and the culiiv 4 ¥ 6 rV of them were thenceforward b ril ^ tenants of crown-lands ^
Acfcording to both , the priests of Egypt formed a separate order , ^( Gfrtii xlvii . 22 . ) according 16 both the Egyptians took meat with ' no foreigner ( Gen . xliii St . ) actoYcl- '
ing to- both , thd " ocfeupatidh » f ( G shepherd was ah abomihatioti G iii the eyes of the Eg ^ tians * enV xlvi / 34 . ) 44 Btit let us irdhsider tti £
pectlliar tdne and character of the narration in Genets ; I kn 6 w ntii a mor 6 ebnvittcfiug pi ^ oof of'Htfi genuineness of the patrfarchiil
history , thart this affitteio kify on * who hias a heart ' 6 pen t < S' natUfe atnd siinplicify , arid ^ ho fc ! atr # la < & himself in the itiferifcy of tW wofftfV and in the domestic life ot a ^ he {> . '
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35 S , Eichhorn on the Authenticity efthe Book of Genesis
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1812, page 358, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1749/page/14/
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