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and cannot properly question. I believe, therefore, in both these things. 
But it will be asked, “ Are they not contradictory ? and how can you believe 
the one if you receive the other ? ” I think Mr. Howard has given us to- 
night a good deal of data which will show a considerable antiquity in the 
civilization, and perhaps also in the language, of Egypt. It appears to me 
that the Bible really does account for all this, if we only take it as it is, and 
do not read it through traditional spectacles. I believe we are all apt to read 
about the Bible and to read about science ; but we too seldom read the Bible 
itself, especially in the original tongue, and some of us very seldom study 
science itself. It is because we apprehend so imperfectly what God’s Spirit 
has inspired on the one hand, and what He has indicated in His works on 
the other, that we come to so many supposed difficulties. There are no diffi- 
culties at all about the Bible viewed as it really is, and not through men’s 
commentaries ; nor about science viewed as it really is, and not through men’s 
theories. We must take one as God’s book of Revelation, and the other as 
His book of Nature ; and if we read both, we shall by-and-by come to a state 
in which, through our Saviour, we shall be far better able to understand 
both, than we can hope to do here. I consider that the Bible tells us that there 
were races upon the earth at the very time when God created Adam, 
about 6,000 years ago ; for, Gen. vi. 4, when the words in italics are left 
out, and when correctly translated, would read thus “ The Nephilim 
were in the earth in those days [about A.M. 800], and also at the time when 
the daughters of Adam were married to the sons of God and bare to them, 
the same [Nephilim] were the mighty ones which were from most ancient 
times [Heb. me oplam ] men of renown.” Nephilim means persons who had 
fallen away, or revolted from their rightful Lord. The word rendered 
“ men ” is in Heb. anoshim ; and means sickly ones, and destitute of some- 
thing which they had before their fall ; and thus the words Nephilim and 
anoshim singularly agree in meaning. That they were a race is evident 
from the fact, that the noun has the definite article ha affixed to it, as in all 
similar cases. These Nephilim were in the wide earth [erets], while the 
Adamic family were only in the ground ( adamah , ver. 1 ), that is, the now 
cultivated estate just outside Eden. I think the words are sufficiently strong 
to carry us back many hundreds of thousands of years, even in Egyptian 
history, if necessary. There is in the Bible that which will haraonize 
Egyptology with the Bible, and that which will harmonize geology with the 
Bible, but we must go to the original sources to find harmony in what 
appears at present to be contradictory. 
The Chairman. May I state that there is a great difference in the size 
between the large pyramid and all others in Egypt, and it is the only one 
without idolatrous symbols ; moreover, its construction augurs a higher state 
ol civilization at the time of its construction, in the earlier period of Egypt’s 
history, than existed afterwards. Looked at from this point of view, it shows 
that a degradation of the race existed afterwards. Now, we must bear in 
mind that there is no case in the history of the world where any individual 
race has civilized itself, it has always been civilized from without. The civiliza- 
