242 
for example, to the ^^branch ^ of atree springing 
iawhmh a snake s draw h Ws> Alg0 to * 
from its back, ana m*vi B wliere a man and 
painting in the temple of o^has pinched 
woman are standing by a ree, serpent stands erect 
some fruit and grven tt ^/^^se meanTo say that such 
by their side I do ^ot, of course, mean ^ the 
emblematic devices cou , e 0 f the primeval event 
Egyptians apart from any MogeSi Nevertheless the co- 
recorded m the Pent^eu h by 1^ combinati(m 0 f a tree, 
incidence is most remar • nt - aa ereo t position, 
or the foliage, of a tree, wi ? ularly suggestive ; and 
“ a * TaS 7o“- Sa «SfS> 
S3; i tt of ,fc " 
■Wit <* p 
M , by au ■ — «*£ “siS. reig n of Me. 
lie shows that the e p h. v king under whom the 
which the salient points are as follows 
“Amenophis, having determined to expel from tfTte Nile, 
lepers, first set them to work' m the stone t ] K , people ; after having 
for the purpose of separating them rom deserted town, named 
made them suffer in whieh he ~d ;hem hi a desert ^ 
Aharis. Here they ^"e^hLld worship none of the Egyptian 
established, as their first law, th ~y als which WC1T . deemed 
gods, and that they might ea ™ pLder of this revolt afterwards changed 
"-2 Moses, to whom Amenophis gave battle, pursuing 
them to the borders of Syria.”* 
24. Lepsius shows, f I think, most 
which justify us in considering “ a oomme nting chiefly 
a» it •“'»«> tr' £* to SS? ..a «p.»f 
upon two tilings , firs ^ Egyptians ; and, 
.Td SS S */,<*» »/ th “* ” 
* Taken from Josephus, contra. 404 _ 418> 
t Lepsius, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sinai, pp. 
