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Thib (the blessed city) or Paradise,' and exhibits many other traces of 

 identity, with the Elohim of the Jews." This is the first time I ever 

 understood the Elohim not to be the Elohim of the Christians, and in- 

 deed of the whole universe. Tlie phrase, " the Elohim of the Jews," and, 

 therefore, not ours, seems to me a very extraordinary one. I, for one, would 

 be very sorry not to understand that Elohim is my God, the same as the 

 Elohim of the Jews, (Hear.) I suppose most of you have read in many 

 travellers' books the mention of the name of " Allah," and regarded most 

 probably by some as if He is a mere idol of the heathen tribes. I can well 

 understand that an English soldier who hears the word " Allah" in India, 

 and not knowing that the Moslems are not heathen, would misunderstand 

 the word to mean the name of an idol. If I were to go to the East and 

 use the word God in Arabic, and not translate it into the word " Allah," it 

 would be considered that the English did not worship the same God. 

 Then with regard to the word Babylon, which is a corruption of Babel, 

 its meaning is in every language identical with the word given in Genesis 

 xi. 9 : " Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the Lord did 

 there confound the language of all the earth, and from thence did the Lord 

 scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth." Whether in Hebrew, 

 Arabic, or Syriac, it has the same meaning. In all these languages they 

 call it " Babil " ; and what proves my theory with regard to this word 

 more than anything else is the Septuagint, which does not mention 

 Babylon at all, but only says that on account of the confusion of 

 languages which took place at the building of the tower, it was called so. 

 In the Greek it is called Si'^x^'^'t*, which means confusion. As to what 

 the Gentile kings chose to call it, you will find the word Nazareth explained 

 by different nationalities by different meanings : some say it means separation, 

 or a place set aside for a certain purpose ; whereas the Mahommedans 

 say it means " the victorious." We cannot at all account for the way in 

 Avhich the different nationalities in those countries have changed one Avord 

 into a number of meanings. Eeferring to what Mr. Budge has said about 

 the word "ganith," which, according to his theory, may mean "garden," 

 I would point out that in Arabic the word for garden is genna, and 

 the same word is applied to the kingdom of Heaven. The letter g in Arabic 

 being pronounced soft, like the g in George. With reference to the bricks 

 of Nebuchadnezzar, I nmst add my testimony to what Mr. Boscawen has 

 said, namely, that there is not a place in Babylonia wlierc I have made 

 excavations, without a single exception, where I have not found the name of 

 Nebuchadnezzar on the bricks discovered. Of course, it is understood that 

 there were three kings of that name, and I thought at one time that the 

 marks on the bricks might refer to different kings, because I could hardly 

 suppose that one man would have built so many places as were found in 

 the mounds explored. But I found that the name applied to the one king 

 only, i.e., the Nebuchadnezzar of Mr. Budge's paper, and of the Bible ; for 

 they mention the father of that potentate, and therefore he must be the person 



