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EGYPT AND ITS MONUMENTS.
If the reader will turn to the map of ancient Egypt, he
will find that on that branch in the Delta, which empties by
the Tanitic, or, as Herodotus terms it, the Saitic mouth, stands
Tanis, not far from the sea. This place is known in Scripture
by the name of Zoan. In Numbers xiii. 22, it is stated that
" Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt." Zoan,
then, we remark in passing, seems to have been proverbially
ancient, as it was used as a standard of reference, to indicate
the age of other cities. Now we have but to ascertain whether
Hebron existed in Abraham's day. To this the answer is, that
when Abraham reached Canaan, the Scriptural history tells us,
he found Hebron there; and for aught that is known to the
contrary, it might then have been standing for many years.
3. The kings of Egypt were then known by the title,
Pharaoh.
This word is sometimes used in Scripture, as if it were a
proper name; and sometimes the phrase, " King of Egypt," is
added to it. Sometimes, also, the real proper name, as it may
be called, is added; thus we read of Pharaoh Necho, and
Pharaoh Hophra. The word is written in Hebrew, Phrah,
[nsiB,] and different opinions have been expressed as to its ori-
gin. Josephus, in his antiquities, intimates that it is derived
from the ancient Egyptian word, ouro, meaning " king;" pre-
fixing the masculine article, in Coptic, it becomes p-ouro, " <ke
king," or ph-ouro, whence Pharaoh. A later, and probably
more correct opinion, derives it from the Egyptian word Phra,
"the sun," which both Rosellini and Lepsius have remarked,
is often written hieroglyphically, on the monuments, over the
heads of the kings, where it is represented by the hawk and
globe, or by the symbol of the sun. Sir Gardner Wilkinson
EGYPT AND ITS MONUMENTS.
If the reader will turn to the map of ancient Egypt, he
will find that on that branch in the Delta, which empties by
the Tanitic, or, as Herodotus terms it, the Saitic mouth, stands
Tanis, not far from the sea. This place is known in Scripture
by the name of Zoan. In Numbers xiii. 22, it is stated that
" Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt." Zoan,
then, we remark in passing, seems to have been proverbially
ancient, as it was used as a standard of reference, to indicate
the age of other cities. Now we have but to ascertain whether
Hebron existed in Abraham's day. To this the answer is, that
when Abraham reached Canaan, the Scriptural history tells us,
he found Hebron there; and for aught that is known to the
contrary, it might then have been standing for many years.
3. The kings of Egypt were then known by the title,
Pharaoh.
This word is sometimes used in Scripture, as if it were a
proper name; and sometimes the phrase, " King of Egypt," is
added to it. Sometimes, also, the real proper name, as it may
be called, is added; thus we read of Pharaoh Necho, and
Pharaoh Hophra. The word is written in Hebrew, Phrah,
[nsiB,] and different opinions have been expressed as to its ori-
gin. Josephus, in his antiquities, intimates that it is derived
from the ancient Egyptian word, ouro, meaning " king;" pre-
fixing the masculine article, in Coptic, it becomes p-ouro, " <ke
king," or ph-ouro, whence Pharaoh. A later, and probably
more correct opinion, derives it from the Egyptian word Phra,
"the sun," which both Rosellini and Lepsius have remarked,
is often written hieroglyphically, on the monuments, over the
heads of the kings, where it is represented by the hawk and
globe, or by the symbol of the sun. Sir Gardner Wilkinson