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I suppose, therefore, that he will admit that 

 it is equally proper to speak of the author of 

 Leviticus as the "Mosaic writer." Whether such 

 a phrase would be used by any one who had an 

 adequate conception of the assured results <>t 

 modern Biblical criticism is another matter ; 

 but, at any rate, it cannot be denied that 

 Leviticus has as much claim to Mosaic author- 

 ship as Genesis. Therefore, if one wants to 

 know the sense of a phrase used in Genesis, it 

 will be well to see what Leviticus has to say 

 on the matter. Hence, I commend the follow- 

 ing extract from the eleventh chapter of 

 Leviticus to Mr. Gladstone's serious attention : 



And these are they which are unclean unto you among ihc 

 in ping things that creep upon the earth : the weasel, and the 

 inoiiM', and the great lizard after its kind, and the gecko, ;md 

 the land-crocodile, and the sand-lizard, and tin- chameleon. 

 These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep 

 (v. 29-31). 



The merest Sunday-school exegesis therefore 

 suffices to prove that when the "Mosaic writer' 1 

 in (leiiesis i. 24 speaks of "creeping things," he 

 means to include lizards among them. 



This being so, it is agreed, on all hands, tha 

 tern-stria! li/ards, and other reptiles allied t< 

 lizards, occur in the Permian strata. It i 

 further agreed that the Triassic strata were 

 deposited after these. Moreover, it is wel 

 known that, even if certain footprints are to bo 



