The flowing waters stood upright in an heap. Yea, the roaring waves congealed in the heart of the sea. The enemy said: I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoil. My lust shall be satisfied upon them. I will draw the sword. My hand shall lead them captive again. The sea covered them : They sank as lead in the mighty waters. Who is like unto thee among the gods, O Jehovah ? Who is like unto thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? Thou didst stretch forth thy right hand, The [depths of the] earth swallowed them up. [But] thou leadest [by the hand of] thy mercy, This people which thou hast ransomed ; Yea, by thy strength [right hand] shalt thou bring them Unto the habitation of thy holiness." "The people shall hear and be afraid, The inhabitants of Palestina shall assemble their forces. Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; The mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold on them; All the dwellers in Canaan shall melt away. Fear and dread fall upon them; At the lifting up of thine arm they are still as a stone; Until thy people pass through thee, O Jehovah, Until thy people pass through, whom thou hast purchased! * Thou shalt bring them in, Yea, thou shalt plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, The place, O Jehovah, thou hast made for thee to dwell in, * The nations specified in this sublime passage were all the inhabitants of the southern districts of the land of Canaan. The apprehensions so powerfully described in it, and the tidings of the depopulated state of Egypt, doubtless led to the vast emigrations from those countries across the Isthmus, which the Egyptian priests have called the second invasion of the shepherds. That Egypt was hereby saved from extinction, as a kingdom, is one purpose of God in it, which we have already explained. It also served another divine purpose. It saved vast multitudes of individually unoffending members of the human race from the sword of the avenger, which the accursed and cannibal idolatry of the land had at length provoked the long-suffering, even of Jehovah, to draw against its inhabitants. Bad as was the mythology of Egypt which they then embraced, miserably as it perverted the few religious truths it concealed, it was nevertheless by no means the confection of human blood, and scarcely human lust, which reeked to the nostrils of the foul idols of Canaan. This purpose also will be seen very clearly by those who rightly appreciate the character and attributes of the true God. The sanctuary, O Jehovah, which thy hands have established. Jehovah shall reign for ever and ever." Exodus xiv. 31; xv. 1-18. Here our work is at an end. The labour will not have been in vain should it produce or aid the conviction in the mind of any man, that the persons mentioned in the Bible were men and not metaphors ; that the events it has recorded were actual occurrences and not fables; and that even the numbers which are found there (when they have not been tampered with by weak and wicked alterations) are real dates, and not geological indefinites. APPENDIX A. PRINCIPAL CANAANITE NAMES ON THE TEMPLES = ruad. OF EGYPT. rt-n Heb. 77 Arvadites. Arab. Arvad was one of the sons of Canaan. The tribe was named after him. Gen. x. 10. They built the city of Zidon, which they named after the firstborn of Canaan, who probably died childless (v. 15). They afterwards built Tyre, (see Ezek. xxvii. 8.) and still later the city which they named after themselves Aradus. They were the great trading power of the ancient world. Herodotus the Greek historian says, (lib. i.) that their intercourse with Egypt was the earliest traffic of which any record remained. The monuments of Egypt fully confirm this statement. So great had been the immigration of Arvad into Lower Egypt, that Saites married an Arvadite princess and on this account his kingdom is named upper Arvad, and Memphis an Arvadite city, in the hieroglyphic account of the capture of it. The same document leaves us to infer that Arvad was the first of the Canaanite nations to make peace with the Theban Pharaoh. In all other hieroglyphic records, Arvad is in alliance and trading with Egypt. Herodotus tells us, that in his day the commerce of Arvad with Egypt was very extensive, and that a Syrian settlement existed in the vicinity of Memphis. (lib. ii.) the Hittites. A thi Hebrew The descendants of Heth, the second son of Canaan. (Gen. x. 15). The possessions of this powerful tribe were in the south of Canaan. They had also large possessions in Egypt at the time of the capture of Memphis by Amosis. But in the days of his successors (the 18th dynasty) they had been expelled from the Delta by the Xoite kings confederate with Arvad, and probably with Israel. In the pretensions of Heth, to those possessions in Egypt, originated the wars of Sethos and Ramses. M shasu. Hebrew the Zuzim; probably a sept of the Hivites, inhabiting the mountains of Siddim or the Dead Sea. They had been among the first of the Canaanites to cross the desert of Suez and form settlements in the Delta. In the times of Abraham, they were on this account entitled "the Zuzim that dwelt in Ham." [i. e. Egypt.] Gen. xiv. 5. For this reason also their name in the provincial language of Egypt had become the common appellative of " shepherd," with all its degrading associations. This nation had been dispossessed of their territory in Siddim by the children of Lot, sometime before the Exodus. (See |