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ABRAHAM.
163
no direct historical account of the time when it commenced.
By an examination of many scattered passages, modern schol-
ars have proved it to have been about the time of the kings ;
but the Israelites, after that day, finding horses in the country,
troubled themselves not with an inquiry as to the time of then
introduction. How many of our own countrymen can, at the
present day, tell when and how the horse was introduced into
America ?
In all the enumerations of patriarchal wealth in the Bible,
horses are never mentioned; oxen drew the tabernacle in the
desert, and in truth, in the further history of the people de-
fended from Abraham, we find that God specially forbade
their kings to have many horses, or to trust to Egyptian
cavalry; for his purpose was to hedge his people around from
*he temptation of coming into contact with idolaters, and
%ypt would have been the great horse-market of the Israel-
ltes- The non-introduction of the horse by Abraham, may,
therefor e, have been a part of the providential designs of God
for the future.
Von Bohlen, also, denies that there were asses in Egypt;
k^t, as Hengstenberg says, it never occurred to any one before
to deny it. There are numerous representations of them on
*he monuments.
*t is also said there were no sheep. They are very often
^entioned by ancient authors. Herodotus informs us that the
Syptians had them, so also does Diodorus. They may be
een ^ iarge numbers on the monuments; and numerous
s °f them were kept near Memphis, the region where
Sahara was.
As to the camel, it is reasonable to infer, from present
cts and usages, that it existed in ancient Egypt. Munitoli
163
no direct historical account of the time when it commenced.
By an examination of many scattered passages, modern schol-
ars have proved it to have been about the time of the kings ;
but the Israelites, after that day, finding horses in the country,
troubled themselves not with an inquiry as to the time of then
introduction. How many of our own countrymen can, at the
present day, tell when and how the horse was introduced into
America ?
In all the enumerations of patriarchal wealth in the Bible,
horses are never mentioned; oxen drew the tabernacle in the
desert, and in truth, in the further history of the people de-
fended from Abraham, we find that God specially forbade
their kings to have many horses, or to trust to Egyptian
cavalry; for his purpose was to hedge his people around from
*he temptation of coming into contact with idolaters, and
%ypt would have been the great horse-market of the Israel-
ltes- The non-introduction of the horse by Abraham, may,
therefor e, have been a part of the providential designs of God
for the future.
Von Bohlen, also, denies that there were asses in Egypt;
k^t, as Hengstenberg says, it never occurred to any one before
to deny it. There are numerous representations of them on
*he monuments.
*t is also said there were no sheep. They are very often
^entioned by ancient authors. Herodotus informs us that the
Syptians had them, so also does Diodorus. They may be
een ^ iarge numbers on the monuments; and numerous
s °f them were kept near Memphis, the region where
Sahara was.
As to the camel, it is reasonable to infer, from present
cts and usages, that it existed in ancient Egypt. Munitoli