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Certain who was the So , King of Egypt , to whom Hosea is said to have eent messengers { 2 Kings xvii . 4 ) when he meditated a revolt from the power of Shalrnaneser . Mr . Salt supposes , ( p . 52 , ) as indeed othew have done , that he is the same as Sabaeo , whose name he has discovered at Abydoa , m Ethiopian conqueror and founder of the twenty-fifth dynasty . The Taracus of Manetho , third of this dynasty , is evidently the Tirhaka , King of Ethiopia , ( whom Shuckford made an Arabian , -IL p , 167 , ) and whose invasion com- ?
pelled Sennacherib to draw off his forces ( 2 Kings xix ., Is . xxxviii ) , Hi $ name Mr . Salt has found written Tiraka , at Medinet Haboo , and at Birkei in Ethiopia . Of the twenty-sixth or Saitic dynasty , the name of Necho ( tlie Pharaoh Necho of Scripture ) has been found on an Egyptian tablet by Sig-r nor Anastasy . The name of the Uaphris of Manetho , the A pries of the Greek historians , and the Hophra of Scripture , does not appear to have been yet discovered on any Egyptian or Ethiopian
monument-It will be evident from this detail , that there is nothing in the discoveries recently made in Egyptian antiquities , which -tends in any degree to impair the credibility of Scripture , but that , on the contrary , they illustrate its customs and phraseology , and its chronology harmonizes with theirs wherever they can be placed side by side . * Connected with this latter point , however , there is a subject attended with considerable difficulty . We have seen that the invasion of the shepherd kings is placed , according to M . Champollion , oh the combined authority of Manetho and inscriptions , about 2080
B . C . According to the chronology commonly received and supposed to be founded on the authority of Scripture , this was only about three centuries after the Deluge ; and to say nothing of the difficulty of the diffusion and multiplication of the human race in that interval , so as to furnish powerful ^ monarchies , how can we find room for the first fourteen dynasties of Manetho , all of which were anterior to the invasion of the Hykshos ? It has been thought that the dynasties of Manetho were contemporaneous , not successive ; but now that this hypothesis has been shewn to be without foundation ,
as concerns the later dynasties , it must appear an unwarrantable assumption with regard to the earlier . Will the adoption of any other reckoning than that which is founded on the Hebrew text give us a larger space for the events which are so inconveniently crowded in the common chronology of the world from the Deluge ? The chronology of the Septuagint and the Samaritan undoubtedly furnish an interval longer , by some hundred years , between the Deluge and the birth of Abraham , than the Hebrew ; but the Septuagint bears very strong traces of a systematic alteration in order to
obtain this interval , and being made in Egypt , may naturally be suspected of a forced conformity or at least accommodation to the Egyptian chronology-The Samaritan seems also to have been systematically altered , and probably for a similar reason ; for though the extraordinary coincidence of the Samaritan and the Septuagint , in numerous readings against the Hebrew , has never been satisfactorily explained , it seems difficult to account for it , except by some direct influence of the one upon the other ; and as the motive to a systematic change is obvious in respect to a version made at Alexandria , it is reasonable to suppose that it began with the Septuagint . The Hebrew text ,
* We perceive from M . ChampolUon that a work has been published in Holland , entitled " Lettre <\ M . Ch . Coquerel sur Ie Systfcme Hieroglyphlque de M . Champol ^ lion consider ^ dan s ses rapporte avec i'Kcrttare Saintc : par A . Lr . Ooquerel . 1 826 . " We have not been able to obtalu a eight of it s it appears to relate entirety to chronology .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1827, page 319, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1796/page/7/
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