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S90 mountain-like pyramids.

Cities of the

dead were hewn out of the

Magnificent sarcophagi were chiseled out of exquisitely

rocks.

beautiful marble.

In a word, the world's proud

and majestic crea-

tions of those days were found on the shores of the Nile.

Pharaoh of

And

Egypt was the mightiest man

The

of the earth.

That St. Paul and Pharaoh this light is Jehovah in between views Exod. of ix. i6, where it expressed quotation is in his from evident " will language For I at this plainest time send all and strongest My plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people that thou mayest know that there is none like Me in all the as such he is the subject of the hardening.

the conflict

:

;

And

for this cause have I raised thee up, for to power; and that My name may be declared show throughout all the earth" (Rom. ix. ii). These words are meaningless if they are made to refer to the earth.

private

in very deed

thee

in

life of

My

the individual Pharaoh.

possessed such power.

But

if

No

private individual ever

they are understood as referring to

Pharaoh the great world-ruler, they assume an entirely different For he was not the creator of that power, neither was that

aspect.

power the creation of a day, but the result of a gradual development under God's own direction. Four centuries before Moses, God had already spoken to Abraham of this mighty Egypt and predicted the conflict which His power would bring upon it. Many dynasties of absolute monarchs had succeeded one another. And

when Pharaoh's dynasty ascended the throne, the centralized government of the empire was thoroughly vested in his person. In His unfathomable counsel the

Lord had evidently led the

all its wisdom, power, and refinement in Egypt's limited territory. Himself had raised tip Egypt, Himself had raised up its great dynasties, and lastly raised up Pharaoh, who, wholly absorbed into Egypt's luxury, power, and world-majesty, was the embodiment of what the world could oppose in one man, and he therefore a man of sin, against the majesty of God. And this haughty monarch enclosed Israel in the bonds of death, and with them the Hope of the fathers, the preparation of Messiah He after the flesh, and the Church of God in its patriarchal state. should have honored and blessed this people, but he treated it

godless world of that day to concentrate intellect,

cruelly.

The

sciences of those days flourished in Egypt.

Historical

event* were chiseled in hieroglyphs upon stone, and published upon

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