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CITIES OF EGYPT.
traced. When we recollect what changes time and war
have wrought, it is still more marvellous. There has
been no other history but that of the Bible, and this we
have to place side by side with documents which say
nothing of the event. Tradition does not help, but
misleads us. Yet enough remains, even without turning
the sand for the historical treasures it conceals, to enable
us to restore the main outlines of the map of the Exodus.
Future research may tell us more, but we can scarcely
doubt that to the end of time the actual place of the
passage of the Red Sea will remain a mystery.
CITIES OF EGYPT.
traced. When we recollect what changes time and war
have wrought, it is still more marvellous. There has
been no other history but that of the Bible, and this we
have to place side by side with documents which say
nothing of the event. Tradition does not help, but
misleads us. Yet enough remains, even without turning
the sand for the historical treasures it conceals, to enable
us to restore the main outlines of the map of the Exodus.
Future research may tell us more, but we can scarcely
doubt that to the end of time the actual place of the
passage of the Red Sea will remain a mystery.