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face of, and El, God. If Mr. Munro sees the ego of Greek and Latin, 

 and even the ku of Ethiopic imbedded in the Hebrew clnokhi (I), he 

 will surely allow that the Chinese first personal pronoun ngo lies 

 hidden there also ; and to the Hebrew suffixes k, kali (masculine), 

 and A;, ki (feminine) for thy, he will perceive a strong relationship 

 in the Egyptian suffix k for thy, and the O jib way Indian kit 

 for thy. 



If languages outside the Semitic and Indo-European groups were 

 investigated they would, I am sure, yield a multitude of resemblances 

 to Hebrew just as the rest have — developed roots, inverted words, 

 and words applied to different or even opposite uses, just such as we 

 should expect to find through the confusion of tongues. (The 

 changing of q or k into ]p is of course the result of that confusion ; for 

 no one now turns i) into k or k into p, as little children often turn t 

 into k.) 



Professor Langhorne Orchard, M.A., B.Sc. : — I should take the 

 meaning of Elohim to be the Mighty, specially applied to God as being 

 supremely mighty, and it is applied in the Psalms to all strong angels. 

 The idea is of strength. I think we ought to thank the author of this 

 erudite and skilful paper very warmly for the light thrown upon the 

 Pentateuch. I cannot see with the Author, in regard to the title of 

 "Jehovah," that the earliest conception and title of God by man 

 would be Maker or Creator. I connect Jah with " I am that I am " 

 in Exodus iii, 14, "I am," meaning Jehovah. I think it should be 

 translated as God tells Moses. I do not think there is in the word 

 any idea of making or creating : I think it is rather connected 

 with God's being eternal, and therefore with His unchangeableness. 



Rev. A. Graham-Barton : — There is considerable divergence of 

 opinion in the educated world as to the first language, but I have a 

 shrewd suspicion that the language spoken in Paradise was Hebrew. 

 We may take history as we please, but we have to sum up the whole 

 of the past in forming our calculations ; and I think that God, who 

 inspired Moses to give his Eeport, had a ripe language ready for him 

 a thousand years at least after the first man. It is well to note that 

 it would be at least a thousand years from the time when the first 

 man appeared, even from a Biblical standpoint, to the time when 

 Moses appeared, and when he wrote his history. 



