Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-03-11

zech., ch. 8. v. &2. Satan appears to have Il
most honorable place in the court of the Etel
nal, at "the right hand" and Joshua clears hin
self by the assistance Of his guardian ange
and is pronounced not guilty, and the prosecutor
Satan, is rebuked, not having made out bis case
would further remark, before / leave th
Book of Job, that in several important passa
ges, where the word in Hebrew Is positivel,
Bless or Praise, It is wrongly translated, in tn
present version Of the Bible in common use, al
a Curse; thereby rendering the text. wrongfully
Bat the Catholic version Of the same passages
is correctly translated. Having, hope, sat-
isaed the gentlemen from Huron, l will proceed
with my argument.
Now, serpent Is a reptile, and whenever ht
is described or mentioned in other parts of the
Scriptures, by this name, naehash, it is always
as small reptile; but this must have been
reptile of larger growth, and stood up on its
feet, before the Lord. II had the organs Of
speech, and reasoning intellect. We find Il
in familiar conversation with Eve, and, with all
the low cunning Of negro, It beguiles the
weaker vessel There are number of species
of the serpent, but we are not informed which
ID was. The large snakes or serpents are nam.
ed in Hebrew, Tdhnim We will now refer to
the description given in the Sd Chapter of Gen.
esis, verse l, (literally.) Nov the Serpent
was wiser than all the Beasts Of the feld;"
therefore, consequently he must be the connect.
Ing link between Adam (the man) and the
Brute or Beast. The Hebrew word naekash Is
Of three letters (consonants), and ac-
cording to the vowel points attached, may have
three different meanings; at all events, @ ser.
pent Is q reptile, and cannot stand on it's tail I;
has no organ Of speech, nor reason ing intellect.
But this individual Is responsible being, is liza.
BILE for all It's crimes. 1t was older than Adam
and Eve, knowing the will Of God, and being
able to distinguish between good and evil, It en-
ices the weaker vessel, being pure, innocent
unused to guile and falsehcod. 1t
raised her female curiosity, (Which is proverbi.
al,) and beguiled her with lie.
This was an objectionable crime lin this
world), and the punishment was Commensurate
With the crime. Now, let us examine what was
the punishment; 18th aud 18th verses: "Aud
The Lord God said unto the Serpent, Because
heu hast done this, thou art cursed above all
,attle, and above every beast of the field; upon
by belly ahalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat
III the days of thy life. And will put enmity
between thee and the woman, and between thy
iced and her seed. It shall bruise thy head,
snd thou shalt bruise his heel" This was not
,nly curse, but prophecy. This is an east
ern emblem Of the lowest stage Of slavery. He
s to humble himself TO bis masters feet, and
,at the offalls from his masters table. "The
iced of the woman shall bruise thy head, and
hou shalt bruise his heel" This is also en-
,lematic Of slavery; the slave creeps to the feet
of his master, takes one of his feet and places IL
IN his head
will now appeal to those who are acquaint-
ID with chronological researches, that the era.
lium and anatomy Of the black man are as DIFF
erent from the white man as that Of the ape
r baboon. Iacknowledge the negro to be Of
be GEMS homo, but not ofshe same species as
ne Senate race. This is not theory special. |
: mine, but one adopted by many of the learned |
avans and philosophers Of the present age. II
ill give q few Of the names Of these great men
or reference: Professor L. AgassiE, LII. D.; W.
Isher, M D.; Samuel G.. Morton, M. D., late
ecretary Of the Academy of Natural Science
I'd Philosophy at Philadelphia; Professor H. H
atterson, Rossellini, Lepsus, author of the
lie Book of the Kings of Egypt: the great ling
Is. and philosopher, Chevalier C.. F. Bunsen,
nd I refer you to his great work (lately trans
tied from the German "Egypt's Place in Uni.
ersal History;"and lastly, Types Of Mankind,
r chronological Researches by Mott and
iliddon.
By investigating Genesis we will discover
lore than one race beside the Adsmic. We
nd that when Cain was driven from the pres
nee Of God and his parents, that be found
life, (aithough Adam and Eve had no daugh-
srs at that time;) be also built city and call
It after his son Enoch. Query, where did
ain get his wife3 Who were the inhabitants
lat dwelt In his new city2 Who were the par
les that assisted in building said city, Again,
Ienesis, Ch. VI, v, "a: "Thers were Giants in
,e earth in those days; and also after that
hen the sons.of the Code" (pluraI, Hebrep)
came in unto the daughters of Adam, and
hey bear children to them, the same were
ishty men, in the world of old (Hebrew text)
len of renown." We have reason to believe
,ese Giants were at least fourteen feet high.
'eu'y, Ch. Ill, v. IL: "For only Og, king of
'ashan, remained Of the remnants Of Giants;
ehold, his bedstead was bedstead of iron; is |
not In Rabath Of the children Of Ammon2
line cubits was the length thereof, and four
abits the breadth of it." A cubit is about % |
,ches. There are several other passages prov.
" the race of Giants the remnant Of those
tho we're in the antedeluvian world, so that Il |
ppears there we're races which escaped Noah's
ood. The historical records and settlement
{ Egypt go back far beyond the food,
Isron Bunsen, In his valuable work on Egypt,
tates that there are no hieroglyphleAl or rionu-
rental records whatever Of Noah's food. In
40 Preface Of "Egypt's Place in History" vol.
, D. IL, he says "that Egypt was inhabited BY
,en who made use of pottery about eleven thou.
and years before the Christian era" We also
iscover, through this great authors works, the
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