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• • „ «,„ « tjhenherds ” having been so odious to the 
Cl a ^ 6 our translation supposes. M. Marietta con- 
eludes from his recent discoveries at Tams, the Scripture 
« Toan ” that “ the shepherds have been too severely judged ; 
Zoan that me F 0 f Sutech, built by Apophis, was 
with 
whom the shepherds are accused f Jestroying^ll but^h ^ 
“TnesroTL 1 English' 'version rests upon the word translated 
rectness oi ou g toyabah lias this meaning ; but 
* ta ™"* J line *i“ ’“S *> T J 
It is equaiiy ce Testament, it far more frequently signifies 
“S’,” 0 ? 0 §^t. oft™ tip with which »« 
necessarily “abomination ” to Jehovah j as m 2 Kings xxm. 13, 
necessarily a f A on is described by the same 
the idolatry of the. ““VJ^ation « Moreover, if we take 
word, and ^nslated a "at ^ ^ meani of 
wot T^ah-tZ, rendered “shepherd,” means 
likewise “consecrated goat;” so that the passage equal y 
reads “ every consecrated goat is an idol or object of worship 
re . a ? \ 171 ^ , • __ v That such was the case is well known 
from theStLW’of Manetho, who says that as early as the 
trom tne tesx y ™f nr iea before the Israelites were seen 
in ° Egypt The bulls, Apis in Memphis, and Mnevis m 
Heliopolis, and the Mendesian goat, were appointed to be 
e-ods” (Euseb. Ghron. Gan., lib. prior, cap. xx.) 
S U All tZ tends to support the truth of the tradition that 
T 1 \ Vicerov of Egypt under Apophis, the most dis- 
tinguished of the Shepherd kings ; and which, I think, 
tmgnisnea PWaoh at once recognizing the God oi 
josepn, as Pharaoh said to Joseph, ±o,- 
Mag i were unable to do according unto thy 
asmudi as God has sterna . only i n the throne will I 
word shall all . mj V can account for this sudden 
be greater • pharaoh of the one only God, as 
recognition on e p Egypt ? A fragment of one of 
distinct from the idol-gods o gyp entitled Sallier 
staptorf ™«i> “s 11 “ ■ ubj “*' Tl “ 
passage reads as follows : 
“It came to pass when the land of Egypt was held hy^he^ palace at 
skenen was ruling in the South and features and all 
Apophis had set up M* ** 
