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THE EXODUS PAPYRI.
I may have then felt, upon the intentional intro-
duction by the scribe of the word not or nor, is now
satisfied ; for the word is as plainly written here as
in the other case. It is, however, perhaps, pos-
sible to translate it as a negative question,—"Is
it not the case that when thou appearest, &c, thou
dost issue justified ?" But, if so, what are we to
do with the rebel, who so mysteriously gets con-
firmed in these two cases ? My argument is a fair
one. I simply take Miss Corbaux's view of the
chronology and politics of the period. I know that
Siptah did, unwillingly enough, confirm the rebel
beggar Moses, who spoke with him ; also that he
was himself a rare instance of one who did not issue
justified before the divine ministers. I know that
such a remark would apply to no other monarch
ruling at this period I think that a royal per-
sonage must be meant. All the fresh facts I meet
with, I find to be more and more capable of fitting
into the system. I establish similarities of plan in
the different papyri. The papyri must mean some-
thing, and I shall demur to the conclusion of any
critic, who shall merely cry out, that he is consider-
ably disappointed. Altogether, in fact, I consider
that I have a fair case, until a fairer be manufac-
tured. Hundreds of little rays of light may be
cast upon my production from the different mu-
seums in Europe. Let their concentration then be
the intensest ever known to archaeological science,
the eye of the truth-seeker will never be injured
where the theorist would be blinded for life.
A reference to pages 65, 77, and 85 in this vo-
THE EXODUS PAPYRI.
I may have then felt, upon the intentional intro-
duction by the scribe of the word not or nor, is now
satisfied ; for the word is as plainly written here as
in the other case. It is, however, perhaps, pos-
sible to translate it as a negative question,—"Is
it not the case that when thou appearest, &c, thou
dost issue justified ?" But, if so, what are we to
do with the rebel, who so mysteriously gets con-
firmed in these two cases ? My argument is a fair
one. I simply take Miss Corbaux's view of the
chronology and politics of the period. I know that
Siptah did, unwillingly enough, confirm the rebel
beggar Moses, who spoke with him ; also that he
was himself a rare instance of one who did not issue
justified before the divine ministers. I know that
such a remark would apply to no other monarch
ruling at this period I think that a royal per-
sonage must be meant. All the fresh facts I meet
with, I find to be more and more capable of fitting
into the system. I establish similarities of plan in
the different papyri. The papyri must mean some-
thing, and I shall demur to the conclusion of any
critic, who shall merely cry out, that he is consider-
ably disappointed. Altogether, in fact, I consider
that I have a fair case, until a fairer be manufac-
tured. Hundreds of little rays of light may be
cast upon my production from the different mu-
seums in Europe. Let their concentration then be
the intensest ever known to archaeological science,
the eye of the truth-seeker will never be injured
where the theorist would be blinded for life.
A reference to pages 65, 77, and 85 in this vo-