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to the heathen, he uses in that capacity the word 13'»Dp, caninu* When Moses, 

 by whose hand the Israelites were rescued from bondage, speaks of their forget- 

 ting their divine champion who had liberated them, he says, " Is he not thy 

 father that canah'd — redeemed thee ?" TT3p. Finally, when the Father himself 

 of the families of Israel solemnly announces, by his prophet, his gracious purpose 

 of addressing himself to the fulfilment of the promises respecting the restoration 

 of the exiled and captive Israelites, Isaiah says, " He will set his hand again 

 the second time to recover, n3p, can'th, the remnant or remaining posterity of 

 his people that shall be left, like as it was to Israel (on the occasion last men- 

 tioned) when he came up out of Egypt." Besides, therefore, the other passages 

 we have referred to for some of them, we have thus found in the account of 

 Nehemiah's journey alone, all except two of the words used by Hanno in the 

 part of his prayer respecting the consummation of his journey, the success of its 

 business, and the guidance and direction required for finding and recovering his 

 children — mlach — mtslyahlmn yth dbri msklai caneth — as we before traced 

 his words in the Scriptures relating to cases of abduction, and on those bearing 

 on the curse and divine denunciation against the Andrapodist. 



At the conclusion of the part respecting the abduction, we enlarged a little 

 on the pith and pregnancy of the word "lyi, bier, byr, of the Punic, as specially 

 applicable to cases of bereavement, such as Hanno seemed threatened with — the 

 abduction of his entire posterity. In concluding the part now before us repect- 

 ing the Recovery, we should not do justice to the felicitous adaptation as 

 correlatives, of the Punic-Hebrew words for abduction and recovery — " the 

 carrying away into captivity," and " the redemption thence," if we did not 

 remark, that as "lyi was found to include not merely bereavement, but threat- 

 ened extinction, so n3p, as used in Isaiah, xi. is clearly intended to apply to 

 the recovery of not merely the lost, exiled, or captive members of a family, 

 but the apparently lost remainder — the entire stock, " name and remnant," in 

 the direct and collateral lines.t 



What has been said of the Punic m'hlach, ythmu, carHth, ben, &c. applies to the 

 Libyan locut, ytum, cant beant, Sfc. of the same roots. Immediately before locut, 

 journey, stands the Libyan " abel," sorrowful. Gen. xxxvii. 35, " I will go down 

 to my son sorrowful," VlXj abel ; Psalm, xxxv. 14, " Like one sorrowful, '^lik, 



* Same root njp. f See the entire passage, Isaiah, xi. 



