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These explanations were offered to save Herodotus’s repu- 
tation from the critique quoted from the Transactions, so far 
as it related to the real period of Sabacon, and of the reign 
which appears to precede it, and that which was, at least in part, 
contemporary with it and after it; and to prove the gene- 
ral accuracy of Herodotus as a reporter of statements made 
to him by the Egyptian pagan priests, and others; and as sug- 
gestive of the omission of a few words in his text, which appear 
to have been introduced into it by some Arab critic who un- 
derstood Greek, but who had no knowledge of chronology, or 
of Manetho’s dynasties; and the identity in duration of the 
chronology of the priests at Heliopolis and Memphis, with 
that of the priest of Sebennytis in the time of Ptolemy II. 
In conclusion, it was shown, that the particular facts, said, 
in the critique referred to, to be undeserving of the slightest 
credit, were on the contrary, worthy of the special notice of 
Biblical scholars, as being supplementary to facts recorded in 
the Scriptures, which in themselves are insufficient to realize 
the historical identities of the “son of Anosh,” as a king, 
both before and after his retreat to the Ausitis. The few 
words in Herodotus relating to this prince just supply the 
desiderata which give him an historical reality in time and 
place, and indicate his position in the monuments as the foster- 
brother of Horus, or the Hawk, of the eighteenth dynasty of 
Manetho, and not as the immediate predecessor of Sethos. 
The notices of Sethos, in the text of Herodotus, are inva- 
luable, as they supply everything that is necessary to explain 
the facts of Sennacherib’s discomfiture, and how it was that the 
prophecies relating to that event were all of them completely 
fulfilled, ‘‘here” at Pelusion, where Isaiah or Sethos was, 
and “there” at Jerusalem, where Hezekiah was when he sent 
the embassy to Isaiah. By the identification of Sethos and 
Isaiah, the notices of this prince in Herodotus at once open the 
way to the grouping together of a number of other fragments 
