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were they that testified of Him. The inspired Apostles, authors of the New 
Testament Books, quoted thence continually. Holy men of God, who did not 
compile traditions, but spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost, left to 
the world this imperishable body of truth and wisdom ; and to this source, not 
to the undiscovered yearnings of men’s souls after God, we owe the funda- 
mental tenets of Christian Revelation. In these tenets there is no novel truth, 
but the spirit of Christ and of inspiration gives primal truth the power which 
now it has, now that the redeeming work of Christ is done. Chaldeans, 
Egyptians, and J ob the Arabian, all before Moses, believed, so far as they 
were enlightened, in the immortality of man, and so did Abraham ; but it was 
made manifest by the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, who abolished 
death, and shed light upon life and immortality , (purhavrog Si Kwr/v ical 
apQapaiav, through the Gospel (2 Tim. i. 10). 
Unless I miss the drift of the paper before us, it tends to this conclusion : 
that all the elements of revealed truth, not only such a primary truth as the 
existence of a Deity, and such an indelible conviction as a belief in immortality, 
but all the elements of Christian revelation, were at first imparted to mankind 
in general. That they fell, as fragments, some to one, and some to another, 
and were incorporated with all the religions of the world. That the disjecta 
membra, undique collata, are, so far as the process of readjustment has been 
carried, preserved in the Christian Church, but that this process will be carried 
further, and after more extended researches and profounder studies, the world 
will be much enriched. No doubt it will; but the mystery of Christian faith, 
be it well remembered, came to us by another channel. That mystery was 
not known to the Egyptian liieroglyphists ; in other ages it was not made 
known to the sons of men, but from the beginning of the world was hid in God 
(Ephes. iii. 5, 9). 
But what of the Horus myth ? Mr. Cooper regards Horus as a type of 
Christ, because he is the son of a god, and because of his character as an 
avenger and a deliverer, and his great benevolence. As for his reputed 
sonship, I incline to doubt, and think it inconsistent with the earliest form in 
which we possess the Egyptian mythology. According to the oldest texts of 
the Book of the Bead, as published by Lepsius, Horus is not so much a 
distinct god as one of three forms of the same divinity. In the Sun, as in a 
chariot, rides Ra, the Supreme God. Rather, he sails iu that glorious disc, as 
in a barge, over the sea of heaven, in meridian majesty; inferior gods are the 
rowers. At eventide, he reaches the western bound and enters the uuder 
world, where, as the rays of day are quenching, the souls of the departed 
wait admission, for they arrive there from eve to eve. He was Ra at noon, 
now he is Osiris, and assumes the government of the whole realm of the 
departed, where goes on the business of judgment, of justification and re- 
jection; where are the fields of war with malignant demons, and successive 
regions of enjoyment by the victorious justified, up to the most glorious 
heaven. With daybreak Osiris emerges from his nocturnal world, in form an 
infant, but swiftly waxing into robust youth. The solar disc reaches the 
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