ments
are the same faces that are met in the synagogues of Paris or
New York. So with the descendants of Ishmael, in whom there
flows partly the blood of the dominant element of ancient
Egypt; neither custom, habit, nor physiognomy have changed. In
these two races, as observed by Bishop Newton, we have an
ocular demonstration of the Divine origin of our faith, if
verification of Scripture history is any criterion.--"Clarke's
Commentary," vol. i, page 111; also, Hosmer's "Story of the
Jews," page 5.

[57] "Cause Morale de la Circoncision." Vanier, du Havre. Pages
40-45.

[58] "De la Circoncision." Par le Dr. S. Bernheim. Page 7. Paris,
1889.

[59] "Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical
Literature," vol. ii, page 350.

[60] Among the Semitic race, however, it seems possible to bring
forward better evidence than this of an early Stone Age. If we
follow one way of translating we find, in two passages of the
Old Testament, an account of the use of sharp stones or stone
knives for circumcision,--Exodus, iv, 25: "And Zipporah took a
stone"; and Joshua, v, 2: "At that time Jehovah said to
Joshua, Make thee knives of stone." ... The Septuagint
altogether favors the opinion that the knives in question were
of stone, by reading, in the first place, a stone or pebble,
and, in the second, stone knives of sharp-cut stone. These are
mentioned again in the remarkable passage which follows the
account of the death and burial of Joshua (Joshua, xxiv, 29,
30),--"And it came to pass, after these things, that Joshua,
the son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah, died, being a hundred
and ten years old, and they buried him in the border of his
inheritance in Timnath Serah, which is in Mount Ephraim, on
the north side of the hill of Gaash." Here follows, in the
LXX, a passage not in the Hebrew text, which has come down to
us: "And there they laid with him in the tomb, wherein they
buried him there, the stone knives wherewith he circumcised
the children of Israel at the Gilgals, when he led them out of
Egypt, as the Lord commanded. And they are there unto this
day." The rabbini