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Article ON THE STUDY OF MASONIC ANTIQUITIES. ← Page 8 of 14 →
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On The Study Of Masonic Antiquities.
The Israelites thus , before the Exodus , would possess two books—one GENESIS , properly so called , —and the other the HISTORY OF ABRAHAM . In addition to these they had another , entitled "MILCHAMOTH- JEHOVAH , " the wars of Jehovah , from which a quotation is given in Numbers xxi ., v . 23 , —and probably another , being a collection of national songs , entitled " Sepher-Hajashar . " At all events the two sacred books before alluded to were preserved to us by Moses ; and Dr . Lamb remarks
, " I am inclined to think that Moses , when under the inspiration of God he indited the books of the law , prefixed to them the history of Abraham and his posterity , as preserved by the children of Israel , and , at the same time , rendered their sacred records of the Creation and history of man up to the dispersion at Babel into the Hebrew language as we now have them .
And as the Israelites no doubt , like all other nations , held their ancient records in the highest veneration , their lawgiver would preserve as much of the original as he consistently could ; and hence ii is that we have the early part ofthe book of Genesis so concise , and evidently partaking of the nature of an hieroglyphic narrative . And it may here be remarked that passages which now appear obscure to us , were probably perfectly intelligible to those who , with the Hebrew Text , had before them the ancient pictures from ivhich it was derived . Upon the books of Moses
becoming the sacred writings of the nation , the ancient hieroglyphics would be discarded , and , in the course of a few generations , be totally forgotten . "' ' In thus tracing the origin of written characters , and particularly of those comprising the Ancient Hebrew Alphabet , we can appreciate the great importance of hieroglyphical knowledge , as connected with sacred
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On The Study Of Masonic Antiquities.
The Israelites thus , before the Exodus , would possess two books—one GENESIS , properly so called , —and the other the HISTORY OF ABRAHAM . In addition to these they had another , entitled "MILCHAMOTH- JEHOVAH , " the wars of Jehovah , from which a quotation is given in Numbers xxi ., v . 23 , —and probably another , being a collection of national songs , entitled " Sepher-Hajashar . " At all events the two sacred books before alluded to were preserved to us by Moses ; and Dr . Lamb remarks
, " I am inclined to think that Moses , when under the inspiration of God he indited the books of the law , prefixed to them the history of Abraham and his posterity , as preserved by the children of Israel , and , at the same time , rendered their sacred records of the Creation and history of man up to the dispersion at Babel into the Hebrew language as we now have them .
And as the Israelites no doubt , like all other nations , held their ancient records in the highest veneration , their lawgiver would preserve as much of the original as he consistently could ; and hence ii is that we have the early part ofthe book of Genesis so concise , and evidently partaking of the nature of an hieroglyphic narrative . And it may here be remarked that passages which now appear obscure to us , were probably perfectly intelligible to those who , with the Hebrew Text , had before them the ancient pictures from ivhich it was derived . Upon the books of Moses
becoming the sacred writings of the nation , the ancient hieroglyphics would be discarded , and , in the course of a few generations , be totally forgotten . "' ' In thus tracing the origin of written characters , and particularly of those comprising the Ancient Hebrew Alphabet , we can appreciate the great importance of hieroglyphical knowledge , as connected with sacred