. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . -, in which the god Setappears as an instructor of King Thothmes III. in thescience of archery.^. Seth Teaching the King the Art of War. (After Erman.) Sety I., the second king of the nineteenth d3nast3,the shepherd kings, derives his name from the god Set—a sign of the high honor in which he was held among theshepherd kings; and indeed we are informed that thc}^regarded Set, or Sutech, as the only true God, the soledeity, who alone was worthy of receiving divine honors. If the time of the shepherd ki
. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . -, in which the god Setappears as an instructor of King Thothmes III. in thescience of archery.^. Seth Teaching the King the Art of War. (After Erman.) Sety I., the second king of the nineteenth d3nast3,the shepherd kings, derives his name from the god Set—a sign of the high honor in which he was held among theshepherd kings; and indeed we are informed that thc}^regarded Set, or Sutech, as the only true God, the soledeity, who alone was worthy of receiving divine honors. If the time of the shepherd kings is to be identifiedwith the settlement of Jacobs sons in Egypt, and if the *See Lepsius, Deiiii/ui/er, Vol. V., p. 36. The pcture is reproduced in outlineby Adolf Erman in his Life in Ancient Egypt, Engl, trans., p. 282. ANCIENT EGYPT. 19 monotlieism of the Hyksos is the root of Mosess religion,what food for thought lies in the fact that the same aweof a fearful power that confronts us in life, changes amongthe Eg3ptians into the demonology of Set, and amongthe Israelites into the cult of Yahveh! In spite of the ten-or which he inspired, Set wasoriginally not mereh an evil demon
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