The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-02-24

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name. But the addition, Gin the district Of
Sucot, removes almost all doubt; as Sucot
is described on the inscription as foreign
word, and is undoubtedly Hebrew. meaning
huts or tents, 9 Specification for piece, Of
ten met with in Egypt. But, in addition to
this, the first station Of the Israelites men
toned in the bible is Succothe, and the most
local named in this region, just as the
word "sucot' itself, can only be derived
from the Hebrew.
In addition to these traces, from which
it is plain that in these very regions the
habitations Of the lsraelltes, the land OF
Gosen, must be sough. for. DR.. B. gives US
the following interesting facts: The name
Pitom designa,es City OF (the gooD Tom.
Tom, however, ADDS the Inscriptions, is al
SO called Ankh, and has the surname .'the
great good" Investigation shows that
Ankh means .'the living one and IS moth
ing else but the Egyptian translation OF the
Hebrew Jehoya or Jahve. As a symbol ot
this divinity serpent was worshiped n
Piton, which reminds US Of the brass ser
pent Of Moses and Of its worship, which
was only abolished by King hczeklah
Another surname of Pitom was PaAnkh, I.
e., City Of Ankh, and the whole district
called Punt aankh, s,e, the district OF
Pitom Moreover "a denotes Governor,
and thus Hapunt- pa-ankl means the Cover
nor Of Pi,on. The word, however, e2-
plains ct once The mysterious and much
dispated word Zaphnat paneach, title
which Pharaoh gave to Joseph when he
took him in.o service; That -, ne Simply
made him Governor OF plom, and here
Joseph located has relatives. II also eA-
plains the s.raags words tExod Nv: o,
! where joseph says: God has made me
the father of Pharaoh, to- bsussch says
shat ab-en pf4o ca he inscription MEATS
the highes; household o.hcers oi Pharaoh
Brugsch further explains the word kart
/ umin by khsr-,ot, e., warriors certain
class OF priests in Raises. Highly inter
esting is also a letter which he gives OF 9
royal cour, officer on q papyrus OF the brit
lsh Museum, which reads as follows:
On the 9th day OF the 81 month towards
evening LET, the royal palace TO pursue
the two slaves. | arrived on the 10Th at
Sucet, and learnt that the tnginyes had
turned 10 the south. On the lZth VAS ia
Kheian, where Was told that the horse
drivers who had come from the reed-tens
(the feas Of the Sui) had reported that tue
| iugiiives had crossed the boundary line
north OF Miydol IA the country OF t. ne wa.
In his letter we and khetaal AMI Mlgloi
following after Sucot, jus, As Ethan and
Migdoi start from Suchoth. The palace
officers pursue the fugitive slaves ca tae
very same read as Pharaoh did the fugitive
lsraeltes Even the country ct the wall
occurs in he Bible, tor a wall IN the Semi
TIC languages IS ca..cl saur, and !; was %
the wilderness Of Shnr that Moses led the
children OF Israeli Exod XIV, -
As regards the place OF the Egypt4.n
! catastrophe, the Bible (Exod, xiv, 81 re
ports that Pharaoh had overtaken the chill
dren OF Israel, when eucamring by the sea
lin the Valley Of iliroth before Baal Dep
hon." 1.-The Valley llroth" in the Hebrew
Is called Piha Kh.ro,h, literally meaning,
the entrance the abyss" The very same
name is given by Diodorus to the marshy
plains around Lake Sirbous; and, after \
complete description of the place, he re-
marked: ''Thus these places received their
name justly" There can therefore be no
doubt whatever that piha- khiroth, the en-
trance Of The abyss, signifies the parrqw
neck of land between :ae WESTERN end II
Lake Sirbonis AMI the Mediterranean,
The second place in the above passage,
called Baal-zcphon, is found in the nscrip
ton as Baal Zapouna, which IS but another
name FOR the God Anon, more frequently
called the Lord OF Fens. celebrated tern
PIE Of this god, whom The Greeks c4llei
Zeus hasios. VAS feuai pear the seacoas;,
aboG; the east end OF Lake Ssssonis, aaa
with this Baal Zophon Is easily Identified
Thus We Sc that the sceae OF the astree-
ten OF PAa"a3h AMI his hosts IS The narraS
neck Of lani dIyilia. the Mediterranean
from the Lake sisboa.s. Here /. slddea
food .ran The Mediterranean seized the
pursuers, While he lsrselites had lest this
dangerous place jus, in time The wonder,
Of coussc. ecase.to be one, bat fer i Tia,
tie hand Of Providence is clearly visible.
Quite similar events have tskea csaee 4: 3
later period. when | was a. Alexandria,
SirAso raTsasss. a grsa. aood arose in ;ac
nsishterhool OF Potassium and near tie
mount, haslos The mount became aa IS
land, aud sn'ps conll sill upon the hishroaI
leading 70 Palestine. And Dioierus tells
, rs that Artaxerxer. on his way to Peiu-
sam, had lost part Of his army in the
BarathTa, i, q. the marshes. Thus this is
no. the Red Sea, but, \ reedy lake, and can
only be considered as name for coast
| lagoon or marsh. covered by Yapyrus and
, other Tarshy plants. only after the des
| trne;ion ct Pharaoh. Moses aud his people
| left the easserly direction and turned south
, toward The north point o.: the Gulf q: Suex-
, On this march they frs, cane into the viii
deruess of SAus (ihc country Of the walll
mentioned before. For three days they had
found no water, and when they q, las, found
some at Marah. il was bitter. wherefore they
called The place Mara, bitter" fact well
known TO rs from the bitter lake az the Sucs
Canal. Also the next sisiien. Elm, north
Of SUCK, may be shown By the City Of the
Fishes, Aahm, sneutisned in the inscrip-
.son,
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