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Here is an assemblage, not of Semitic, but of pure Egyptian names ; and, to 
my mind, if Pharaoh had been a shepherd king, hating the native Efflptians 
as we know the shepherd kings did.it would have been mconceivable that 
he should have given Joseph, as a mark of special hon ° ur ’ an ®^ p lan 
rather than a Semitic name, and still less is it conceivable that the wor- 
ship of the Egyptians in the temple of On (which is the ancient Heliopolis 
— beino a purely Egyptian form of worship-should have been came 
on by "the shepherd kings, who overthrew all the idols of Egypt and eita ' 
blished a different form of worship in their place. Again, this theoiy is 
my mind incompatible with the genealogy of the Scriptures By Mr. Savde s 
calculation, the Pharaoh drowned in the Bed Sea was Thothmes II , whom 
lm supposes to have died 1580 years before Christ. How he gets he date I 
do not quite know, for Archbishop Usher’s chronology makes it 1491 BC. , 
but, be that as it may, if Mr. Savile is right, the interval between 
and Solomon’s prime of life was exactly 580 years. I may be asked How 
do I get this! Because it is an undisputed fact that ‘here ni an histormal 
date to be assigned to the time of Solomon, and that date is B.c. 1000. N 
body questions this, however much we may differ as students of ^Egyptology 
or Jf Scripture up to that time. Every student of chronology, from a com 
parison with Greek and other profane histories, accepts i the fact as estabhs e ^ 
and true, that Solomon was on the throne 1000 B.o. If then, the 
Exodus took place in the reign of Thothmes IV., 1580 me., there was an 
interval of 580 years between the Exodus and the time when S ol « mon 
"throne. Now turn to the fourth chapter of the book 
,, onrl nf it vou will find the generations of Pharez. In the 20m 
you have the 3 birth of Nahshon, and the genealogy is continued thence 
down to David. Nahshon was a prince of the tribe of Judah at the tune of 
fhe Exodus, as the book of Numbers tells us ; but from Nahshon there are 
only six generations down to Solomon. Nahshon begat ^»n ^Imon 
beratBoaz, Boaz begat Obed, Obed begat Jesse, Jesse begat D~vid, an I 
David begat Solomon, making six generations in all, to cover a P® n ° 
580 years. That gives an average of 96 years for each generation, - 
whether this is not evidently unhistorical, - d whether a theo^whicn de- 
mands such a belief can be accepted in a critical age such as this is ° U* 
probable that men lived 96 years each for six generations in order to hand 
^The^HAiRMAN.— I understand you to mean that if Mr. Savile’s theory be 
correct, each must have had his eldest son at 96 years of age ? 
Mr.TxTCOMB.-Yes. I think it is incompatible with fact, and 
argument, therefore, in my opinion, falls to the groun . ^ 
close, allow me to advance my own view in the shap > «* JZl 
chronism between Israel in Egypt and the Egyptian kings. I w Ji ™t^peak 
confidently about my view, but I will bring a few a^um" “ 
it is at least probable. One whom I see present (the Eev. U I Heath 
may possibly dispute my position, as I am now ispu mg r. ’ 
that only forms one of the interesting intellectual exercises to be met with m 
