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makes another alteration. He takes the words rock toon, used for shepherd, 
and offers a criticism which I do not find in any other critic, taking 
Dr. Tregelles along with the rest ; and therefore I think it must he clearly 
and distinctly rejected, and all that is built upon it must fall to the 
ground. But there is another point which, while upon this destructive 
principle, I must refer to. Mr. Savile says in his 26th section 
“ It is just possible that the representation of Hat-asu’s general may refer 
to her adopted child Moses ; for Scripture shows that he was 
words and deeds,’ before he 4 refused to be called the son ■ <* 
daughter.’ And Josephus and Irenseus alike relate the X* 
gained as general of the Egyptian army m a w^^hltk^^ 
though encumbered with a good deal of romance, still serves to » 
statement in Numbers xii. 1, that Moses married a woman of that country. 
As to the triumphs of Moses in Africa, as a general of the Egyptian army, 
we may accept Mr. Savile’s view that there is no evidence to sustain them ; 
but what about Moses having married a woman of that country ? We have 
only the account of one marriage of Moses. When he forsook Egypt, ear- 
ing the wrath of Pharaoh, he went to the land of Midian, where he was 
received by Jethro the priest, whose daughter, Zipporah, he married, and by 
her he had two sons. After he had brought Israel through the Red Sea an 
the wilderness, Jethro, or Reuel— for he has both names m the Pentateuc 
brought Zipporah and her two sons to Mount Sinai to Moses. Zipporah had 
before accompanied Moses, but she was sent back after what had transpired 
at the inn ; but as soon as Moses triumphed, Jethro brought Zipporah and 
her two sons to him. Now who was Zipporah ? She was a Cushite, tor I 
need not say that that Hebrew word which is always rendered Ethiopian is 
Cushite. Now what was that ? Go back to the 2nd chapter of Genesis and 
you will see that one of the four rivers that branched from the Garden o 
Eden compassed the whole land of Ethiopia, or of Cush. It is assuredly not 
Ethiopia in Africa, but Ethiopia in Asia. Now Zipporah dwelt m the land 
of Cush, who was the son of Ham, and who peopled that part of Asia. Cus^ 
in the first instance is applied to Arabia and to that land of Midian w mu 
seems to have been in the peninsula of Sinai. Zipporah is called a Cushite, 
and would naturally be so called by Aaron and Miriam m their factious 
dispute with Moses. Probably they were jealous of Zipporah s influence, 
and that dispute very likely arose when Jethro returned to his own home. 
In this I consider there is no argument whatever to sustam the teaching 
of Mr. Savile’s 26th section. 
The Chairman.— I think it is universally admitted that that passage rom 
Josephus alluding to the marriage of the queen’s daughter is a simple fiction. 
It has all the appearance of fiction. _ 
Mr Graham.— Well, I take what is indisputable,— Scripture history and 
the geography we gather from it -and I submit that there is no ground 
whatever for Mr. Savile’s argument. And now let me add a little that is 
constructive, or more properly perhaps, auxiliary, to the subject ol this 
paper. I think that in the book of Genesis we find much that coincides 
