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and ten years.** He had reached this milestone in his pil- 
grimage so much desired by the sons of Mizraim. 
“ And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die, and God will 
surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land 
which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. And 
Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will 
surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence. 
So Joseph died an hundred and ten years old; and they em- 
balmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.** Doubtless 
this coffin was a wooden sepulchral chest (Heb. such 
as the Egyptians often used to enclose their mummies. 
“ And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him,*** which 
very well accounts for the wild tradition, as it would other- 
wise seem, of Chmremon,f that Joseph (Peteseph) as well as 
Moses (Tisithen) led the Exodus ; and for Manetho*s confu- 
sion of Moses with Osarsiph, the priest of Heliopolis, if by 
Osarsiph Joseph was really meant. { 
And under the vast echo of the blessings and curses from the 
hollow sides of Gerizim and of Ebal lay the bones of Joseph in 
their Egyptian spicery, carried by his descendants to be buried 
at length in due season in the very field of his father*s posses- 
sion, where the brave boy had been seeking his brethren when 
he was sent on to his doom at Dothan. 
And there, in a hidden sepulchre, perhaps Joseph still awaits 
in the flesh his further destiny. § 
Much more of course might be added to this sketch of the 
life of Joseph in the light of external evidence. And I have 
not taken up our time in argument, but reserved it for 
discussion. 
Eemembering the command of all the resources of Egyptian 
skill in the recording and preserving of historic memorials, 
possessed both by Joseph and by Moses, on the supposition 
that the Scripture narrative is simply true, and in view of 
the never-failing “ ^Egypticity,** ascertained by the minute 
research of the learned Ebers, and by the familiar mastery of 
Brugsch, I am quite unable to see cause why this Joseph 
should, at the bidding of some modern critics, be resolved 
into a meteorologic mythus, or into an ethnological expres- 
sion invented to denote “ Israel ** as opposed to “ Judah,** 
in the days of the kings or later; or, in short, into any 
other than the old historic son of Jacob, whom Jew and 
Christian have seen in him throughout the ages. 
* Ex. xiii. 19. t Jos. Contra Apion. I. 32. J Canon Cook, Sp. Bib. I. 462. 
§ For a careful account of the spot see T.S.B.A. , ii. 80. 
