Chapter XVIII: Appendix: V

_Predictions regarding the land of Egypt, recorded in
the Holy Bible._

“In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord. And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the Lord because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them. And the Lord shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the Lord, and perform it.

“And the Lord shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the Lord, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.

“In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.

“In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.”—Isa. xix. 19-25.

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Footnotes

Footnote 1:

It was revised, and two-thirds rewritten by the author in October and
November 1884.

Footnote 2:

Josephus.

Footnote 3:

Polano’s Talmud.

Footnote 4:

Josephus.

Footnote 5:

Josephus.

Footnote 6:

Josephus.

Footnote 7:

Josephus.

Footnote 8:

Josephus.

Footnote 9:

Josephus.

Footnote 10:

Josephus.

Footnote 11:

Deuteronomy xxxiv.

Footnote 12:

Josephus.

Footnote 13:

Polano’s Talmud.

Footnote 14:

2 Maccabees i.

Footnote 15:

Al Koran, chap. xii.

Footnote 16:

2 Maccabees ii.

Footnote 17:

Herodotus, _Euterpe_, ii.

Footnote 18:

Sonnini, _Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt_.

Footnote 19:

Gen. xi.

Footnote 20:

Polano’s Talmud.

Footnote 21:

W. T. W. Vaux, _Nineveh and Persepolis_.

Footnote 22:

Piazzi Smyth, _Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid_.

Footnote 23:

Polano’s Talmud.

Footnote 24:

Piazzi Smyth, _Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid_.

Footnote 25:

Piazzi Smyth, _Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid_.

Footnote 26:

These are passages by which the grain was thrown down into the
building from the outside before the casing-stones were fixed.—J. V.
G.

Footnote 27:

One hundred and sixty cubits high.—J. V. G.

Footnote 28:

Herodotus, _Euterpe_, ii.

Footnote 29:

The Pharaoh of Joseph.—J. V. G.

Footnote 30:

A malicious, culpable suppression of the truth. These people were the
Hebrews who came from Canaan to Joseph during the famine.—J. V. G.

Footnote 31:

They sold themselves for food and became slaves to Pharaoh.—J. V. G.

Footnote 32:

Joseph, made governor by Pharaoh.—J. V. G.

Footnote 33:

To guard the Pyramids from being broken into, as the people at that
time knew that they were granaries.—J. V. G.

Footnote 34:

These men were the brethren that Joseph presented to Pharaoh
immediately on their arrival, and who were appointed by him to be
rulers over his cattle. Gen. xlvii. 6.—J. V. G.

Footnote 35:

This Alisphragmuthosis is meant for Moses, the son of the daughter of
Pharaoh, by adoption.—J. V. G.

Footnote 36:

Thummosis was not the son, but brother, of Moses—Aaron.—J. V. G.

Footnote 37:

The exodus of the Children of Israel for the Land of Promise.—J. V.
G.

Footnote 38:

Josephus, _Against Apion_.

Footnote 39:

Goshen.—J. V. G.

Footnote 40:

Building treasure-cities for Pharaoh—Pithom, and Raamses.

Footnote 41:

The new king, who knew not Joseph.

Footnote 42:

The true and authentic version is in the Bible, written by Moses.
They were overwhelmed in the Red Sea, instead of retiring into
Ethiopia!—J. V. G.

Footnote 43:

Josephus, _Against Apion_.

Footnote 44:

Josephus.

Footnote 45:

The Talmud.

Footnote 46:

Done by Greeks in modern times.—J. V. G.

Footnote 47:

The consort of Moses was from Meroë, and she must have had her hair
dressed in that fashion.—J. V. G.

Footnote 48:

A.D. 1837.

Footnote 49:

Piazzi Smyth, _Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid_.

Footnote 50:

Tytler, _Historical View of the Progress of Discovery on the more
Northern Coasts of America_.

Footnote 51:

Laborde, _Journey through Arabia Petræa, to Mount Sinai, and the
excavated City of Petra, the Edom of the Prophecies_.

Footnote 52:

This being the camp of the Children of Israel, these chambers were
the dwellings of the living.—J. V. G.

Footnote 53:

Josephus, _Antiquities of the Jews_.

Footnote 54:

Vaux, _Nineveh and Persepolis_.

Footnote 55:

Vaux, _Nineveh and Persepolis_.

Footnote 56:

Mountstuart Elphinstone, _Account of the Kingdom of Cabul_.

Footnote 57:

See Lev. vi. 14-18.—J. V. G.

Footnote 58:

Lieut.-Colonel Torrens, _Travels in Ladâk, Tartary, and Kashmir_.

Footnote 59:

Frank Vincent, Jun., _The Land of the White Elephant._

Footnote 60:

A modern addition.—J. V. G.

Footnote 61:

Out-offices for the servants of the palace.—J. V. G.

Footnote 62:

Lieut.-General Fytche, _Burmah Past and Present_.

Footnote 63:

Ernest Oppert, _A Forbidden Land_.

Footnote 64:

W. Bullock, _Six Months’ Residence and Travels in Mexico_.

Footnote 65:

And the Zodiac in the Hindoo Temple at Benares in India.—J. V. G.

Footnote 66:

These must have been fallen casing-stones.—J. V. G.

Footnote 67:

Dr. Robertson.

Footnote 68:

Dr. Robertson.

Footnote 69:

2 Kings xx.

Footnote 70:

Dr. Robertson.

Footnote 71:

Dr. Robertson, _History of North and South America_.

Footnote 72:

Moses and his followers, from Japan.—J. V. G.

Footnote 73:

_Voyages and Travels_, vol. vi.

Footnote 74:

In the Pyramids these apertures are called by Egyptologists “air
channels”; they were for throwing the corn into the body of the
granary.—J. V. G.

Footnote 75:

In the Round Tower there is a door by which it can be entered.—J. V.
G.

Footnote 76:

Meares, _Voyages_, vol. ii. pp. 70-71.

Footnote 77:

Nootka Sound.—J. V. G.

Footnote 78:

Numbers, xii. 1.

Footnote 79:

See Wilkinson, _Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians_,
illustration facing p. 222.

Footnote 80:

Exodus, xviii.

Footnote 81:

1 Chronicles, xxiii. 15-17.

Footnote 82:

Exodus, xii. 37, 38.

Footnote 83:

Deut. xxxii. v. 1 to 47.

Footnote 84:

Walford, _On the Famines of the World: Past and Present_.

Footnote 85:

Walford, _Famines of the World, Past and Present_.

Footnote 86:

Walford, _Famines of the World_.

Footnote 87:

Monier Williams, _Hinduism_.

Footnote 88:

Dr. Robertson, _History of America_.

Footnote 89:

Douglas, _Confucianism and Taouism_.

Footnote 90:

Fytche, _Burmah, Past and Present_.

Footnote 91:

From _The Talmud: Selections, &c._, by H. Polano, pp. 85-112.

Footnote 92:

The Pyramids.—J. V. G.

Footnote 93:

The Pyramids.—J. V. G.

Footnote 94:

The Pyramids.—J. V. G.

Footnote 95:

The Palace, known as the Labyrinth.—J. V. G.

Footnote 96:

These Hebrews are mentioned in Egyptian history as Shepherd Kings or
Hycsos.—J. V. G.

Footnote 97:

_The Antiquities of the Jews_, bk. xii. ch. 2.

Footnote 98:

That accounts for the ignorance of Tacitus as to who the Jews
were.—J. V. G.

Footnote 99:

At Alexandria.—J. V. G.

Footnote 100:

This took place about 284 B.C.—J. V. G.

Footnote 101:

_Enterpe_, 2.

Footnote 102:

Joseph the Hebrew, son of Jacob.—In the thirty-second year after the
children of Israel went down into Egypt, the Pharaoh the friend of
Joseph died. Joseph was then seventy-one years of age. Before his
death, Pharaoh commanded his son who succeeded him to obey Joseph in
all things, and the same instructions he left in writing. Thus, while
this Pharaoh reigned over Egypt the country was governed by Joseph’s
advice and counsel. Joseph lived in Egypt ninety-three years, as a
prince of the country eighty years of that time. Chephren the brother
was no other than Benjamin, who was Joseph’s brother. Joseph’s age
when he died was one hundred and ten years; and his body was embalmed
and afterwards laid in the ground near the banks of the river Nile,
in the subterranean island near the Great Pyramid. During Joseph’s
lifetime the temples were closed, and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob was worshipped.

Footnote 103:

The Mokattam Hill.

Footnote 104:

The memorable famine recorded in the Holy Bible, and its dire
consequences.

Footnote 105:

Corrupted from Psothom Phaneeh (the revealer of secrets), the name
given to Joseph the son of Israel the Hebrew, by Pharaoh the King of
Egypt. He was a shepherd by profession, as all his ancestors were. It
was, therefore, Joseph who built all the Pyramids to store corn in,
against the famine that he declared would take place in Egypt.—J. V.
G.

Footnote 106:

Exodus, xv.

Footnote 107:

Exodus, xxiii. 15, 16.

Footnote 108:

Abbé Barthelemi, _Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece_, ch.
76, pp. 309, &c.

Footnote 109:

Cecrops left Egypt the same year that Moses fled from the Court of
Pharaoh.—J. V. G.

Footnote 110:

See Deut. xvi. 1-3.

Transcriber's Note

Some presumed printer’s errors have been corrected, including normalizing punctuation. Further corrections are listed below.

Printed Text Corrected Text

p. 19 ibes ibises
p. 38 throughly thoroughly
p. 156 Ida Idea
p. 168 cuuntrymen countrymen
p. 168 Mauritana Mauritania
p. 279 intepretation interpretation
p. 284 should he should be
p. 281 to do do to do
p. 302 pronouned pronounced
Footnote 32 Pharoah Pharaoh
Footnote 74 Egyptolologists Egyptologists
Footnote 76 Meare Meares

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