Observations upon the plagues inflicted upon the Egyptians: in which is shewn the peculiarity of those judgments, and their correspondence with the rites and idolatry of that people. To these is prefixed, a prefatory discourse concerning the Grecian colonies from Egypt / By Jacob Bryant.

  • Bryant, Jacob, 1715-1804.
Date:
1794
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations upon the plagues inflicted upon the Egyptians: in which is shewn the peculiarity of those judgments, and their correspondence with the rites and idolatry of that people. To these is prefixed, a prefatory discourse concerning the Grecian colonies from Egypt / By Jacob Bryant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    360/468 (page 348)
    [ 343 ] carried on by fhips and 1 boats. Hence the river, as I have before mentioned, had the name of 2 Oceanus, or the fea: and was a iure guard to the whole region, which was hereby rendered impregnable. The feven fereams were at all times a hrong barrier : in which the people placed their chief fecurity. And, of all the cities, that at the point or tongue of Delta was particularly fortified, as commanding the pafiage by water between Upper and Lower Egypt. The prophet therefore fays, that this tongue of the fea fhall be ruined, however it may feem fecured by the furrounding waters. For the Lord would with a mighty (fouthern) wind force thefe waters downwards ; by which means the feven channels fhould become empty, and dry: fo that people fhould pafs over without wetting their feet. Hence the king and people fhould he brought to ruin by being deprived of their chief defence, in which they blindly trufted. The prophet Ezekiel is accordingly ordered to fet hisface againji Pharaoh king of Egypt.—Pints faith $ 1 Rerod. 1. 2. c. 97. p. 147. 4 Diodorus, 1. 1. p. 17. the