A BOOK OF THE BEGINNINGS
NOTES TO SECTION 13
[1] [Origen, Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, bk. 2.495.]
[2] [Eusebius' Praeparatio Evangelica, bk. 1. ch. 10. 'These things are written in the Cosmogony of Taautus (Thoth), and in his memoirs, and from the conjectures and evidences which his mind saw and found out, and wherewith he hath enlightened us.' In Cory's Ancient Fragments, pp. 3-4.]
[3] [El Sched., p. 109.]
[4] [Natural History, bk. 10, ch. 40.]
[5] [Antiquities of the Jews, bk. 2.10.2. 'So Moses, at the persuasion both of Thermuthis and the king himself, cheerfully undertook the business: and the sacred scribes of both nations were glad; those of the Egyptians, that they should at once overcome their enemies by his valour, and that by the same piece of management Moses would be slain; but those of the Hebrews, that they should escape from the Egyptians, because Moses was to be their general. But Moses prevented the enemies, and took and led his army before those enemies were apprized of his attacking them; for he did not march by the river, but by land, where he gave a wonderful demonstration of his sagacity; for when the ground was difficult to be passed over, because of the multitude of serpents, (which it produces in vast numbers, and, indeed, is singular in some of those productions, which other countries do not breed, and yet such as are worse than others in power and mischief, and an unusual fierceness of sight, some of which ascend out of the ground unseen, and also fly in the air, and so come upon men at unawares, and do them a mischief,) Moses invented a wonderful stratagem to preserve the army safe, and without hurt; for he made baskets, like unto arks, of sedge, and filled them with ibes, and carried them along with them; which animal is the greatest enemy to serpents imaginable, for they fly from them when they come near them; and as they fly they are caught and devoured by them, as if it were done by the harts; but the ibes are tame creatures, and only enemies to the serpentine kind: but about these ibes I say no more at present, since the Greeks themselves are not unacquainted with this sort of bird. As soon, therefore, as Moses was come to the land which was the breeder of these serpents, he let loose the ibes, and by their means repelled the serpentine kind, and used them for his assistants before the army came upon that ground. When he had therefore proceeded thus on his journey, he came upon the Ethiopians before they expected him; and, joining battle with them, he beat them, and deprived them of the hopes they had of success against the Egyptians, and went on in overthrowing their cities, and indeed made a great slaughter of these Ethiopians. Now when the Egyptian army had once tasted of this prosperous success, by the means of Moses, they did not slacken their diligence, insomuch that the Ethiopians were in danger of being reduced to slavery, and all sorts of destruction; and at length they retired to Saba, which was a royal city of Ethiopia, which Cambyses afterwards named Mero, after the name of his own sister. The place was to be besieged with very great difficulty, since it was both encompassed by the Nile quite round, and the other rivers, Astapus and Astaboras, made it a very difficult thing for such as attempted to pass over them; for the city was situate in a retired place, and was inhabited after the manner of an island, being encompassed with a strong wall, and having the rivers to guard them from their enemies, and having great ramparts between the wall and the rivers, insomuch, that when the waters come with the greatest violence, it can never be drowned; which ramparts make it next to impossible for even such as are gotten over the rivers to take the city. However, while Moses was uneasy at the army's lying idle, (for the enemies durst not come to a battle,) this accident happened: Tharbis was the daughter of the king of the Ethiopians: she happened to see Moses as he led the army near the walls, and fought with great courage; and admiring the subtility of his undertakings, and believing him to be the author of the Egyptians' success, when they had before despaired of recovering their liberty, and to be the occasion of the great danger the Ethiopians were in, when they had before boasted of their great achievements, she fell deeply in love with him; and upon the prevalency of that passion, sent to him the most faithful of all her servants to discourse with him about their marriage. He thereupon accepted the offer, on condition she would procure the delivering up of the city; and gave her the assurance of an oath to take her to his wife; and that when he had once taken possession of the city, he would not break his oath to her. No sooner was the agreement made, but it took effect immediately; and when Moses had cut off the Ethiopians, he gave thanks to God, and consummated his marriage, and led the Egyptians back to their own land.' Whiston's tr.]
[6] [Job 38:32. 'Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his
season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?'
Job 9:9. 'Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of
the south.']
[7] [Gesenius, Scripturæ linguæque Phœniciæ Monumenta,
pl. 39. Unable to trace.
Movers, Researches into the Religion and Gods of the Phoenicians, p. 527.]
[8] [2 Sam. 17:25. 'And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.' See margin.]
[9] [Hebrew Questions, in 2 Sam. 17:25.]
[10] [De Mysteriis Liber, 1.1. Theurgia, bk. ch. 2.]
[11] [Ps. 60:1. 'To the chief Musician upon Shushaneduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aramnaharaim and with Aramzobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand. O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.']
[12] [Ps. 40:7. 'Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me.']
[13] [Ps. 109:31. 'For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.']
[14] [Lepsius, Denkmaler, vol. 3, p. 276.]
[15] [Is.
59:9-10. 'Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us:
we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in
darkness.
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we
stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.']
[16] [1 Ch. 15:21. 'And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel.']
[17] [Rit. ch. 116. 'Men do not speak, Gods do not perceive it, in turn, I have gone against all that opposes me. Have I not seen the secrets. Oh ye chief Gods of Sesennu [Heliopolis]! greatest on the 1st of the month, less on the 15th. They are Thoth, Shta-Sa, and Tum.' Birch's tr. Cf. Renouf.]
[18] [Ps. 7:1. 'Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the LORD, concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite. O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me.']
[19] [Ps. 7:9. 'Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.']
[20] [Rit. ch. 17. 'The Sun is in his rising when the rule which he has made begins, the Sun begins, rising in Suten Khen [Bubastis]; being in existence, Nu elevates the firmament; he is on the floor which is in Sesennu [Hermopolis]. He has strangled the children of wickedness on the floor of those in Sesen [Hermopolis].' Birch's tr. Cf. Renouf.]
[21] [Ps. 26:7. 'That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.']
[22] [Wilkinson, (Materia Hieroglyphica?), pl. 54.]
[23] [Deutsch, Literary Remains of the Late Emanuel Deutsch, p. 66. 'And the Sifre, in a kind of paraphrase of the special verses themselves, literally continues as follows: "'The Lord came from Sinai' that means: the Law was given in Hebrew; 'and rose up from Seir unto them,' that means it was also given in Greek (Rumi); 'and he shined forth from Mount Paran,' that means in Arabic.'']
[24] [Ps. 7:1. 'Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the LORD, concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite. O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me.']
[25] [Hebräisches und Chaldäisches Handwörtenbuch über das Alte Testament.]
[26] [Job 30:9. 'And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.']
[27] [Jer. 20:7-8. 'O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I
was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision
daily, every one mocketh me.
For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of
the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.']
[28] [Ps. 32:1. 'A Psalm of David, Maschil. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.']
[29] [Ps. 52:1. 'To the chief Musician, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech. Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.']
[30] [Ps. 45:1. 'To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves. My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.']
[31] [Ps. 53:1. 'To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.']
[32] [Ps. 54:1. 'To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when the Ziphims came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us? Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.']
[33] [Ps. 74:1. 'Maschil of Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?']
[34] [Ps. 88:1. 'A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee.']
[35] [Ps.
88:4-11. 'I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that
hath no strength:
Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest
no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves.
Selah.
Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an
abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee,
I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in
destruction?']
[36] [Ps. 110:3. 'Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.']
[37] [Lefebure, 'The Book of Hades,' RP, 10, 79, and RP, 12, 1.]
[38] [Ps. 49:3. 'My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.']
[39] [Ps. 42:6. 'O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.']
[40] [Ps. 44:19. 'Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.']
[41] [Ps. 54:1. 'To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when the Ziphims came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us? Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.']
[42] [2 Ch. 9:4. 'And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.']
[43] [Rit. ch. 147. 'I have made my way, I have bruised, and have passed pure: [Pure is] the Osiris [four times], he washes his face in the water [basin] of the Sun, the day of the festival of the Adjustment of the Year.' Birch's tr. Cf. Renouf.]
[44] [Calmet's Great Dictionary of the Holy Bible, under entry 'Psalms.' 'Psalms of Degrees is a name given to fifteen psalms, from cxx. to cxxxiv. In the Hebrew, it is A song of Ascents; in the Chaldee, A song that was sung upon the steps of the abyss. This explication is founded on a tradition of the Hebrews, which relates that, when they were laying the foundations of the temple, at the return from the captivity, there came out of the earth a prodigious quantity of water, to the height of fifteen cubits; and would have drowned the whole world, if Achitophel—the famous Achitophel who hanged himself in the time of David, about five hundred years before—had not stopped its progress, by writing the ineffable name of Jehovah on the fifteen steps of the temple! To the same event they refer Psalm cxxx. But whence have these Psalms this denomination? Some interpreters think it is because they were sung on the steps of the temple; others translate the Hebrew by Psalms of Elevation; because (they say) they were sung with an exalted voice, or because at every psalm the voice was raised.']
[45] [See note above.]
[46] [Is. 38:11. 'I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.']
[47] [Rit. ch. 17. 'Oh, Lord of the Great Abode, Chief of the Gods! save thou the Osiris from the God whose face is in the [shape of] a dog, with the eyebrows of men; he lives off the fallen at the angle of the Pool of Fire, eating the body and digesting the heart, spitting out the bodies. He is invisible.' Birch's tr. Cf. Renouf.]
[48] [Ps. 22:20. 'Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.']
[49] [Rit. ch. 154. 'Do not catch your equals or fellows with your nets, [nor] catch in them, walking away from earth. They reach to heaven, they stretch to earth.' Birch's tr. Cf. Renouf.]
[50] [Vig. Pap. 9900. See above note.]
[51] [Rit. chs. 76-88. Cf. Renouf.]
[52] [Rit. ch. 154. 'OH! seeing with his face, the prevailers, chief of the born that is, fathers or their fathers, catching the birds flying on the waters! Do not catch your equals or fellows with your nets, [nor] catch in them, walking away from earth. They reach to heaven, they stretch to earth. The Osiris comes forth and breaks them [when they are stretched].' Birch's tr. Cf. Renouf.]
[53] [Ps. 16:10. 'For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.']
[54] [Prov. 7:20. 'He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.' See margin.]
[55] [Is. 13:10. 'For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.']
[56] [Rit. ch. 85. 'I return as the Ibis among the Spirits to the Western place.' Birch's tr. Cf. Renouf.]
[57] [Lepsius, Denkmaler, vol. 2, p. 25.]
[58] [Jer. 8:7. 'Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.']
[59] [Birch, ASA, 35, 4, 85.]
[60] [Birch, 'Egyptian Magical Text,' RP, 6, 113.]
[61] [Deut. 33:8. 'And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah.']
[62] [Ps. 10:15. 'Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.']
[63] [Birch, 'Egyptian Magical Text,' RP, 6, 113.]
[64] [Ps.
89:35-7. 'Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in
heaven. Selah.']
[65] [Rit. ch.1. 'I am Thoth, justifier of the words of Horus against his enemies, the day of weighing words in the great abode in An [Heliopolis].' Birch's tr. Cf. Renouf.]
[66] [Ps. 10:7. 'His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.']
[67] [Ps. 5:9. 'For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.']
[68] [Rit. ch. 39. 'Thy tongue is greater than the envious tongue of a scorpion, which has been made to thee; it has failed in its power for ever.' Birch's tr. Cf. Renouf.]
[69] [Ps.
7:14-15. 'Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and
brought forth falsehood.
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.']
[70] [Ps. 74:20. 'Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.']
[71] [Ps. 22:16. 'For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.']
[72] [Ps. 25:15. 'Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.']
[73] [Ps. 124:7. 'Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.']
[74] [Of Isis and Osiris, ch. 13.]
[75] [Ps. 41:9. 'Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.']
[76] [Rit. ch. 110. 'He keeps at pleasure; none escape from him. I am that crawling reptile in it. I have brought the things of the land of Tum, the time of overthrowing the ministers.' Birch's tr. Cf. Renouf.]
[77] [Ps. 18:15. 'Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.']
[78] [Ps.
18:16-17. 'He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they
were too strong for me.']
[79] [Ps.
74:13-14. 'Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of
the dragons in the waters.
Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the
people inhabiting the wilderness.']
[80] [Rit. ch. 15. 'Hail, thou magnified and enlarged, thy enemies fall on their blocks! Hail, thou greater than the Gods, rising in the heaven, ruling in the Gate! Hail, thou who hast cut in pieces the Scorner and strangled the Apophis! Give thou the sweet breath of the North wind to the Osiris!' Birch's tr. Cf. Renouf.]
[81] [Rit. ch. 134. 'Horus smites off their heads to the heaven (as) for the fowls, their thighs to the earth for wild beasts, to the waters for the fishes.' Birch's tr. Cf. Renouf.]
[82] [Rit. ch. 39. 'I make the haul of thy rope, oh Sun! The Apophis is overthrown; their cords bind the South, North, East, and West. Their cords are on him. Akar [Victory, or the Sphinx] has overthrown him. Ha-ru-bah [he who is over the Gate of the Inundation] has knotted him ... The Apophis and Accusers of the Sun fall. Overthrown is the advance of the Apophis.' Birch's tr. Cf. Renouf.]
[83] [Ps. 2:12. ' Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.']
[84] [Rit. ch. 39. 'He has made Intelligences. Give ye to him glory. Ascribe ye it to him.—Oh! [said by Nupe], the mother of the Gods, proceeding, he has found the way.' Birch's tr. Cf. Renouf.]
[85] [Ps. 9:15. 'The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.']
[86] [Ps. 2:2. 'The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,']
[87] [Rit. ch. 9. 'Oh Soul! greatest of things created, let the Osiris go. Having seen he passes from the Gate, he sees his father Osiris, he makes his way in the darkness to his father Osiris, he is his beloved, he has come to see his father Osiris, he has pierced the heart of Set to do the things of his father Osiris, he has opened all the paths on heaven and earth, he is the son beloved of his father, he has come from the mummy, a prepared Spirit.' Birch's tr. Cf. Renouf.]
[88] [Luke 24:44. 'And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.']
[89] [Ibid.]
[90] [Ps. 40:7. 'Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me.']
[91] [Heb. 1:6. 'And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.']
[92] [Rit. ch. 17. '[The one] ordering his name to rule the
Gods is Horus the son of Osiris, who has made himself a ruler in the place of
his father Osiris. The day of establishing the earth and completing the earth is
the burial of Osiris, the soul created in Suten-khen [Bubastis], giver of food
[or existence], obliterater of sins, who has traversed the eternal path.'
Rit. ch. 78: 'He came forth from the horizon with them, they made him the
terror of the Gods and Spirits transformed with him the only one of millions,
creating all that is made. For first Osiris made the generation of Horus. Osiris
figured him. How was he dignified than those who belong to the beings of light,
with him? Osiris rose as a divine hawk, Horus embodies [incorporates] it with
his soul like all the things of Osiris at the Gate.' Birch's tr. Cf.
Renouf.]
[93] [Ps. 22:1. 'To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?']
[94] [Ps. 22:14. 'I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.']
[95] [Ps. 22:18. 'They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.']
[96] [Ps. 39:9. 'I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.']
[97] [Rit. ch. 81. 'I am the pure Lily coming forth from the luminous one. I guard the nostril of the Sun, and the nose of Athor. I give messages. Horus follows them. I am the pure Lily which comes out of the fields of the Sun.' Birch's tr. Cf. Renouf.]
[98] [Mariette, Dendarah, 2. pl. 48, 49. Unable to trace.]
[99] [Ps. 69:2 'I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.']
[100] [Ps. 69:4. 'They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.']
[101] [Ps. 69:3. 'I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.']
[102] [Rit. ch. 98. 'I pass the waters. I stand in the boat. I pass the God. I stand and come forth from the mud, towed along.' Birch's tr. Cf. Renouf.]
[103] [Ps.
23:1-2. 'A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still
waters.']
[106] [Ps. 23:4. 'Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.']
[107] [Ps. 23:5. 'Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.']
[108] [Rit. ch. 79. 'I have received food off the table, and drunk libations at the eventide, I have come to those who are in the horizon with joy; glory has been given to me by those who are in the Gate in this mortal body. I rejoice at that Great God, Lord of the Palace; the Gods rejoice when they see him at his good coming forth from the belly, born of his mother the Firmament.' Birch's tr. Cf. Renouf.]
[109] [Ps.
18:32-33. 'It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places.']
[110] [Rit. ch. 78. 'My face is in the shape of the divine hawk, my hind quarters are in the shape of a hawk. I am the prepared by his Lord, I go forth to the Gate or to Tattu. I have seen Osiris, I am wrapped up by his hands. My wrap is the heaven.' Birch's tr. Cf. Renouf.]
[111] [Ps. 18:35. 'Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.']
[112] [Rit. ch. 78. 'I have seen my quiet Lord. I learn their knowledge of the circumstances of the Gods, whom Horus has made of the seed of his father Osiris.' Birch's tr. Cf. Renouf.]
[113] [Rit. ch. 138. 'I have been made and emanated from his nostril, I am the Horus of Kam.ka, issue of the red one [Desert]; taking like him who is invincible: his hand is strong against his enemies, supporter of his father, snatched from the waters of his mother, striking his enemies, correcting the aggressors in silence.' Birch's tr. Cf. Renouf.]
[114] [Everard's version and Menard's, with additional fragments.]
[115] [Divine Pymander, bk. 4.14.]
[118] [Job 21:28. 'For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?']
[119] [Zohar. Francke's or Knorr von Rosenroth's tr.]
[120] [Ps. 72:1. 'A Psalm for Solomon. Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son.']
[121] [Ps. 72:7. 'In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.']
[122] [Ps. 132:17. 'There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.']
[123] [Jer. 23:5-6. 'Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.']
[124] [Jer.
23:6. 'In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this
is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.'
Jer. 33:16. 'In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall
dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our
righteousness.' See margin.]
[125] [British Museum, Barker Papyrus, 217.]
[126] [Zech. 6:12. 'And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD.']
[127] [Book of Enoch, ch. 105.]
[128] [Saturnalia, bk. 1.20.]
[129] [I can find no ref. to a double in Herodotus, but only several mentions of the twelve gods. See bk. 2, chs. 45, 143, etc.]
[130] [Operations Carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837.]
[131] [Compare Psalms 78:2. 'I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old.']
[132] [Rit. ch. 1. 'I am with Horus the day of clothing Tesh-tesh [the Nile], to open the door to wash the heart of the meek one, keeping secret the secret places in Rusta. I am with Horus supporting the right shoulder of Osiris in Skhem.' Birch's tr. Cf. Renouf.]
[133] [Rev. 3:7. 'And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth.']
[134] [Is. 22:20-24. 'And it shall come to pass in that
day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I
will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall
open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious
throne to his father's house.
And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring
and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to
all the vessels of flagons.']
[135] [Midrash Tillim, fol. 21, col. 2.]
[136] [Rit. ch. 1. 'I am the great workman who made the Ark of Socharis on the stocks.' Birch's tr. Cf. Renouf.]
[137] [Rit. ch. 42. Cf. Renouf.]
[139] [Book of Common Prayer. See table.]
[140] [Naville, 'La Destruction des Hommes par les Dieux,' TSBA, 4, 15, note.]
[141] [Goodwin, 'On Four Songs Contained in an Egyptian Papyrus in the British Papyrus,' TSBA, 3, 385. See full text here.]
[142] [Ibid., TSBA, 3, 386.]
[143] [Ecc.
9:7-10. 'Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry
heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy
vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for
that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the
sun.']
[144] [Histories, bk. 2.78. 'In social meetings among the rich, when the banquet is
ended, a servant carries round to the several guests a coffin, in which there is
a wooden image of a corpse, carved and painted to resemble nature as nearly as
possible, about a cubit or two cubits in length. As he shows it to each guest in
turn, the servant says, "Gaze here, and drink and be merry; for when you die,
such will you be."' Tr., Rawlinson.
'In the entertainments of the rich among them, when they have finished
eating, a man bears round a wooden figure of a dead body in a coffin, made as
like the reality as may be both by painting and carving, and measuring about a
cubit or two cubits each way; and this he shows to each of those who are
drinking together, saying: "When thou lookest upon this, drink and be merry, for
thou shalt be such as this when thou art dead."' Tr., Macauley.
See also BB 1:296.]
[145] [Chabas, 'The Magic Papyrus,' RP, 10, 135.]
[146] [Brugsch, Histoire d'Égypt des les premiers temps de sen existence jusqu'à nos jours, pl. 4. scutch. 40.]
[147] [Deut. 5:16. 'Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.']
[148] [Wisdom of Solomon, 18:24. 'For upon his long robe the whole world was depicted, and the glories of the fathers were engraved on the four rows of stones, and thy majesty on the diadem upon his head.' NEB version.]
[149] [Ecclus. 51:10. 'I cried, 'Lord, thou art my Father.' NEB version.]
[150] [Ecclus. 51:5-10. 'I cried, 'Lord, thou art my Father.' NEB version.]
[151] [Ecclus. 47:13-16. 'He reigned in a age of peace, because God made all the frontiers quiet, and so he was able to build a house in God's honour, a sanctuary founded to last for ever. How wise you were, Solomon, in your youth! Your mind was like a brimming river; your influence spread throughout the world, which you filled with your proverbs and riddles. Your fame reached to distant islands, and you were beloved for your peaceful reign.' NEB version.]
[152] [Rit. ch. 15. 'Glory to thee! arresting thy person "coming, approaching in peace."' Birch's tr. Cf. Renouf.]
[153] [Altägyptische Tempel Inschriften in den Jahren 1863-1865 an Ort und Stele Gesammelt, vol. 1, pl. 97.]
[154] [Goodwin, 'Egyptian Hymn to Amen,'
TSBA, 2, 356. See full text
here.
This hymn translated by Goodwin also appears in RP 2,
127.]
[155] [Contra Celsum, (poss. bk. 1, 16). 'I must express my surprise that Celsus should class the Odrysians, and Samothracians, and Eleusinians, and Hyperboreans among the most ancient and learned nations, and should not deem the Jews worthy of a place among such, either for their learning or their antiquity, although there are many treatises in circulation among the Egyptians, and Phoenicians, and Greeks, which testify to their existence as an ancient people, but which I have considered it unnecessary to quote. For any one who chooses may read what Flavius Josephus has recorded in his two books. On the Antiquity of the Jews, where he brings together a great collection of writers, who bear witness to the antiquity of the Jewish people; and there exists the Discourse to the Greeks of Tatian the younger, in which with very great learning he enumerates those historians who have treated of the antiquity of the Jewish nation and of Moses. It seems, then, to be not from a love of truth, but from a spirit of hatred, that Celsus makes these statements, his object being to asperse the origin of Christianity, which is connected with Judaism. Nay, he styles the Galactophagi of Homer, and the Druids of the Gauls, and the Getai, most learned and ancient tribes, on account of the resemblance between their traditions and those of the Jews, although I know not whether any of their histories survive; but the Hebrews alone, as far as in him lies, he deprives of the honour both of antiquity and learning. And again, when making a list of ancient and learned men who have conferred benefits upon their contemporaries [by their deeds], and upon posterity by their writings, he excluded Moses from the number; while of Linus, to whom Celsus assigns a foremost place in his list, there exist neither laws nor discourses which produced a change for the better among any tribes; whereas a whole nation, dispersed throughout the entire world, obey the laws of Moses. Consider, then, whether it is not from open malevolence that he has expelled Moses from his catalogue of learned men, while asserting that Linus, and Musgeus, and Orpheus, and Pherecydes, and the Persian Zoroaster, and Pythagoras, discussed these topics, and that their opinions were deposited in books, and have thus been preserved down to the present time. And it is intentionally also that he has omitted to take notice of the myth, embellished chiefly by Orpheus, in which the gods are described as affected by human weaknesses and passions.']
[156] [Rit. ch. 1. 'Oh Openers of Roads! Oh Guides of Paths to the Soul made in the abode of Osiris! open ye the roads, level ye the paths to the Osiris with yourselves. He enters the Gate of Osiris. He goes in with exultation, he comes out in peace. The Osiris is neither stopped nor turned away. He goes in as he wishes, he comes out as he likes. He is justified, he does what he is ordered in the House of Osiris, he proffers his words with you. The Osiris goes to the West in peace.' Birch's tr. Cf. Renouf.]
[157] [Is. 40:3-4. 'The voice of him that crieth in the
wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a
highway for our God.
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low:
and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain.']
[158] [Is. 40:5. 'And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.']
[159] [Cook, 'Hymn to the Nile,' RP, 4, 105. See p. 109.]
[160] [Birch, Select Papyri in the Hieratic Character, Part 2.]
[161] [Compare Ps. 18:2. 'The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.']
[162] [Compare Acts 17:29. 'Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.']
[163] [Compare John 1:18. 'No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.']
[164] [Compare 1 Kin. 8:27. 'But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?']
[165] [Compare Is.
40:13-14. 'Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor
hath taught him?
With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of
judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?']
[166] [Compare Ps. 17:15. 'Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.']
[167] [Jude 1:9. 'Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.']
[168] [Rit. ch. 146. Cf. Renouf.]
[169] [Naville, 'Inscription of the Destruction of Mankind by Ra,' RP, 6, 103. Also in TSBA, 4:1.]
[170] [Naville, 'Inscription of the Destruction of Mankind by Ra,' RP, 6, 103. See p. 106.]
[171] [Ex. 32:4. 'And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.']
[172] [Ex. 32:33. 'And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.']
[173] [Birch, Gallery of Antiquities, p. 20. 'She was also mistress of dancing and sports, and in this capacity holds a tambourine.']
[174] [Naville, 'Inscription of the Destruction of Mankind by Ra,' RP, 6, 103. See p. 106.]
[176] [Naville, 'Inscription of the Destruction of Mankind by Ra,' RP, 6, 103. See p. 108.]
[177] [Num. 19:9. 'And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.']
[178] [Naville, 'Inscription of the Destruction of Mankind by Ra,' RP, 6, 103. See p. 108.]
[179] [Hos. 10:11. 'And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.']
[180] [1 Sam. 6:7. 'Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them.']
[181] [Naville, 'Inscription of the Destruction of Mankind by Ra,' RP, 6, 103. See p. 109.]
[182] [Rit. ch. 146-7. Cf. Renouf.]
[183] [Naville, 'Inscription of the Destruction of Mankind by Ra,' RP, 6, 103. See p. 109.]
[184] [Ibid., p. 106.]
[185] [Ex. 24:10. 'And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.']
[186] [Ex. 32:16. 'And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.']
[187] [Naville, 'Inscription of the Destruction of Mankind by Ra,' RP, 6, 103. See p. 107.]
[188] [Ibid., p.108.]
[189] ['La Destruction des Hommes par les Dieux,'
TSBA, 4, 11. 'Les inscriptions hieroglyphiques nous apprennent que les
dieux d'Amu etaient Hathor et Osiris, et il y a vraisemblablement une mention
d'une ceremonie toute analogue a celle dont nous venous de voir l'institution
dans cette phrase d'une invocation a Osiris:
"Tu es a Amu, tons les homines versent de I'eau en I'honneur
du createur de leurs persounes."']
[190] [Num. 33:9. 'And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there.']
[191] [Ex.
15:23-25. 'And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of
Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.
And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree, which when he had
cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a
statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them.']
[192] [Is. 56:3. 'Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.']
[193] [Ex.
24:6-8. 'And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the
blood he sprinkled on the altar.
And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people:
and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.
And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the
blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these
words.']
[194] [Naville, 'Inscription of the Destruction of Mankind by Ra,' RP, 6, 103-112. The commentary, in French, appears in TSBA, 4.]
[195] [Ex. 24:4. 'And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.']
[196] [Neh. 13:24. 'And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.']
[197] [2 Kin. 18:26. 'Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.']
[198] [Sanhedrin, 21. B.
Deutsch, Literary Remains of the Late Emanuel Deutsch, p. 423.
'"Originally," says Mar Sutra (Sanhedr. xxi. b), "the Pentateuch
was given to Israel in Ibri writing and the Holy (Hebrew) language: it was again
given to them in the days of Ezra in the Ashurith writing and Aramaic language.
Israel then selected the Ashurith writing and the Holy language, and left to the
Hediotes ('IStwrat) the Ibri writing and the Aramaic language.']
[199] [1 Ch. 24:27. 'The sons of Merari by Jaaziah; Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri.']
[200] [Neh.
2:7-9. 'Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be
given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I
come into Judah;
And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me
timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house,
and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the
king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.
Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters.
Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.'
Neh. 6:5. 'Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the
fifth time with an open letter in his hand.'
Neh. 6:17-19. 'Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many
letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.
For there were many in Judah sworn unto him, because he was the son in law of
Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had taken the daughter of
Meshullam the son of Berechiah.
Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. And
Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.']
[201] [Literary Remains of the Late Emanuel Deutsch, p. 123. "Originally," says Mar Sutra (Sanhedr. xxi.), "the Pentateuch was given to Israel in Ibri writing and the Holy (Hebrew) language: it was again given to them in the days of Ezra in the Ashurith writing and Aramaic language. Israel then selected the Ashurith writing and the Holy language, and left to the Hediotes, the Ibri writing and the Aramaic language. Who are the Hediotes? The Cuthim (Samaritans). What is Ibri writing? The Libonaah (Samaritan)."']
[202] [See above note.]
[203] [Ibid., p. 320. 'Former investigators (Abudraham, Elias Levita, Vitringa, &c.) almost unanimously trace their origin to the Syrian persecution, during which all attention to the Law was strictly prohibited, and even all the copies of it that were found were ruthlessly destroyed; so that, as a substitute for the Pentateuchical Parasha, a somewhat corresponding portion of the Prophets was read in the synagogue, and the custom, once introduced, remained fixed. Recent scholars, on the other hand, without much show of reason, as it would appear, variously hold the Haftarah to have sprung from the sermon or homiletic exercise which accompanied the reading in the Pentateuch, and took its exordium (as Haftarah, by an extraordinary linguistic stretch, is explained by Frankel) from a prophetic passage, adapted in a manner to the Mosaic text under consideration; or, again, they imagine the Haftarah to have taken its rise spontaneously during the exile itself, and that Ezra retained and enforced it in Palestine.']
[204] [See above note.]
[205] [See above note, poss. from his work Entwurf einer Geschichte der Literatur der nach talmudischen Responsen. Deutsch gives no source.]
[206] [2 Es.
1:4. Wrong ref. Unable to trace.
2 Es. 14:21. 'The world is shrouded in darkness, and its inhabitants are
without light. For your law was destroyed in the fire, and so no one can know
about the deeds you have done or intend to do.']
[207] [2 Es. 14:42. 'I opened my mouth to speak, and I continued to speak unceasingly. The Most High gave understanding to the five men, who took turns at writing down what was said, using characters which they had not known before. They remained at work through the forty days, writing all day, and taking food only at night.']
[208] [2 Es. 7:12. 'God has given clear instructions for all men when they come into this world, telling them how to attain life and how to escape punishment. But the ungodly have refused to obey him.']
[209] [Hebräisches und Chaldäisches Handwörtenbuch über das Alte Testament.]
[210] [Sharpe, Egyptian Inscriptions from the British Museum and other Sources, p. 78.]
[211] [Didron, Iconographie Chrétienne, figs. 5 & 26.]
[212] [FR, 1878.]