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50 rip&frrtwhfci * fe be *? ghortetle ) h& for dr ^ efk " Ionian" letters , ( freeis , Exp&& des FJanehfc ! , No . 315 . ) ft b hot woAdetfu * « fe « the otfefit&fe , and especially the Egyptian , becoming acquainted With tf * e Johistaf Grgeka tefoife stey othe # tribe of the nation , should have given their fcame to ttie whofe pedpfe . Bat a difficulty occurs here which does riot seem to r&ve sfrufci the commentators . If the book of Geflefcte was writteh or compiled by Moses , it most have been in existence 1500 years before' Christ . But the Greelfcs
tell us that Asiatic Ionia and the Ioniart naftotf derived their name from Ion , whose bkth and parentage are not mdeed distinctly knownr , bat who Hived long after the time of Moses * an < $ whose descendants- did not paSs mf < iy Asia till afo&i the Trojan waf , i . 6 . till about 400 years later than fhemehtfon of * fonians . tit the book of Genesis , fiitfcer ,. therefore * the whole boot o ¥ thfa portion of it ar ^ later than the age of Moses , 6 Y the na ? me tno ^ t have 1 had
sbme other origin ton that vFbicb the Greek * * ss 4 gh fo ft . I feet very Rttle hesitation iwadfeptirkgthe last supposMdn , bett&fing Ion , Helfen and AcfoaeuS , tD be personages of equal pretension to historical exfefetitee , With Locrlne , Alban ^ et and Camber , the sorts of Brutus the Trojari . Gen . xli . 45 . Tbe nathe of the priest of Oft or Heliopofts is written in the Coptic version Petepfcre ; arid M . Champollion ( Pr&citf , 125 ) observes how exlactly it is descriptive of hi £ office . Pei is & Coptic prefix denoting " he who belongs to , " arid Phre & the sun , Re with the Coptic definite 4
article . Now the divinity worshiped at Heliopolis was ? thfeSuri , ad even the Greek name sufficiently implies . Asenathj the riaMe ot ihe wife of Joseph ^ he thinks has been formed from Neith , a goddess- corresponding wffli the Athene of the Greeks . ( Precis , 127 . ) The fiame of one of the Hebrew midwives , Siphrah , Ex . i . 15 , is evidently formed fVom that 6 f Phre , arid of the other , Puah , from Pooh , ( Dem Lunus , ) the Egyptian nanies beittg usually compounds of those of their gods . Precis , 10 ^ .
Gen . xlvi . 34 . ** Every shepherd is ah abomination to the Egyptians . ' * The causes of this hatred have been variously explaifie'd b y commentators . It is most commonly referred to the am * mar worship of the Egyptians , which made them abhor shepherds , who , Hving ori the flesh of their flocks , rriust have pot to death the animals whtck the Egyptians held slacred . Bat though : the ram , the b \ A \ and the goat were objects of Religious worship , ft does hot
appear that the Egyptians abstained fVom the flesh of the whole specieS , or punished thase who took away the life of one of them as th £ y did the mart who killed a hawk , ah ibisv or a cat Shepherds existed among thlem , arrf Pharaoh himself had cattle . ( xJtffc 6 . ) Others , rfier ^ fore , hafve thougfd that it was part of the policy of the Egyptrah priesthobci to inctdlcatfe tipoia the mindsk oi the people a salutary hofrbf of * the ndm ^ dic tribes ih meir * 1 4
heighboufhood , whose ferocity and waht of cmftartiori w ^ reso opposite to the character which the priesthood ate stipjpo&ed to have been desfrous' of impressing on the Egyptians : while others , with stilT gre&ter probibifity , suppose their horror of shepherds tG have been the cdhse q [ uehcie' of wrM they had stiffered from the hivasimit of a nomadic Horde # hd , utider Ae nanle of Hykshos , <) r shepherd kings , Jtre so famous in Egyjitmn ahnals . The reof tend
search ^ M . Ghariipolliott gfefttly to cottftrrh this opirfiott . The ^ account of tigetf otctrpation of fgypt has bee ^ h preserved 6 tW irtlBtatrietfto ; quoted by Jbaephtto itt Ris work « gafeist A ^ ton , lib . i 6 . lc Tne priest ! of Sebennytus has generally laboured under the imputation of comnnttmg forgery to exalt the antiquity of his nation , but his lista of kings have' re < &iVfea sufch a rerajftfkabte confirmaUow fr 6 mthe discoveries of M . ChJUttpoffidft , as * to dntifle him to * credit resiketii ^ thosd e ^ rlfer tiefitifa of v ^ Hibh Ao ^ ttioriU-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1827, page 315, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1796/page/3/
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