Demonstration of the truth of the Christian . anBWffSM a. OF THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES. 101 the diversity of colour as well as of their countenances distin-guish the oppressed Hebrew slaves; and the whole processof their labour is seen till the tale of bricks maybe counted. Their countenances are as perfectly Jewish, according tothe Literary Gazette, as those of any old clothesmen fromSt. Mary Axe who now perambulate the streets of Lawrence nor Jackson could have painted more realJews ; the features so changeless and so peculiar to that peo-ple. And then their occu
Demonstration of the truth of the Christian . anBWffSM a. OF THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES. 101 the diversity of colour as well as of their countenances distin-guish the oppressed Hebrew slaves; and the whole processof their labour is seen till the tale of bricks maybe counted. Their countenances are as perfectly Jewish, according tothe Literary Gazette, as those of any old clothesmen fromSt. Mary Axe who now perambulate the streets of Lawrence nor Jackson could have painted more realJews ; the features so changeless and so peculiar to that peo-ple. And then their occupation ; the several portions of theprocess of brick-making, their limbs bespattered with themud, and their Egyptian taskmasters with the scourge super-intending their labour. The whole seems to us to be a clearand decisive evidence, not only of the captivity, but of theactual circumstances related in the history of Moses. TheEgyptians in the original are painted in the usual red ; theIsraelites of a sallow colour; and when we reflect that,throughout all the other
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