Volume 1
Observations upon the plagues inflicted upon the Egyptians: in which is shewn the peculiarity of those judgments, and their correspondence with the rites and idolatries of that people. To which is prefixed, a prefatory discourse, concerning the Grecian colonies from Egypt / By Jacob Bryant, esq.
- Jacob Bryant
- Date:
- 1810
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations upon the plagues inflicted upon the Egyptians: in which is shewn the peculiarity of those judgments, and their correspondence with the rites and idolatries of that people. To which is prefixed, a prefatory discourse, concerning the Grecian colonies from Egypt / By Jacob Bryant, esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![people pervert their best gifts, they will be farther corrupted to their ruin; and those who are guilty of wilful and obstinate folly, will be doomed to judicial infatuation. This was the case of Pharaoh and the Egyptians. The author proceeds—J’ignore, si le che- min de ces deux endroits a Bedea étoit alors practicable pour tin grande caravane: et quand il auroit-été, il me paroit trop long. Car pour aller de Kahira droit a Sués, il faut 32 heurs, et trois quaris; et ainsi depuis le Nil une heure de plus. La hauteur du pole a Sués etant de six minutes moindre qu’ 4 Kahira, et ]4 vallée de Bedea étant située de quelques lieus plus au sud que Sués, une ca- ravane médiocre mettroit plus de tems pour aller d’ Heliopolis jusques 4 la dite vallée de Bedea, et y employeroit de 35 a 38 heures, ce que la caravane des Israélites n’ aura guares pu faire en trois jours. This argument, like the former, is entirely founded on fancy, and has not the least evidence to support it. In the first place, as I have before said, they did not take this road. In the next place, no comparison can be made between the jour- neying of the children of Israel, and the march of a caravan; for they were differently di-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33282766_0001_0353.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)


