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became, in God s providence, the market of the surrounding 
countries? Nay, which 200 years beyond that time was 
evidently a country of a pastoral, an agricultural, and even a 
commercial character? Was she not already renowned for 
wisdom, and famous for her arts and her science ? Was she 
not the Egypt of the Obelisks, the Sphinx, and the Pyramids ? 
—the Egypt of Zoan, of Memphis, and of Thebes— 
* 0?//3cu 
AiyviTTicti) °Ql 7r\e~i(jTa dofioig ev KTtifiara keItcu, 
Ai 6 EKaTOfXTcvXoL slat , diriKoaioi S’ av EKaarrjP 
AvipEQ eZolxvevo-i avv 'Uvoktiv teal oxeafiv.*— Iliad ix. 381. 
23. Yes, in a country with such vast cities, and capable of pro- 
ducing such immortal works, Israel was formed into a nation. 
Great by the side of such a nation as this, and, with the aid of 
lier God, shaking off its dominion, Israel marched forth “with 
a high hand. There is every reason, then, to believe that the 
riches, partly amassed during 200 years’ residence in such a 
country and partly acquired in that terrible struggle for her 
independence, must have been vast. There is no just reason 
to doubt the repeated statement of Moses, that the armed 
force ol Israel at the Exodus was 600,000 men. 
* “And all that opulent Egyptian Thebes 
Receives, the city with an hundred gates, 
Whence twenty thousand chariots rush to war.” 
Cowper’s Translation. 
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