. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. ng been covered with the drifting sandof the desert and but recently excavated, are stdl in a re-markable state of preservation. The tombs, having beencut into the solid rock of the mountain side, remain untothis day, except as they have been defaced by human handsand robbed of mummies, coffins and funerary offerings. After leaving Memphis we pass several places of inter-est which will be referred to in the succeeding chapter, andstop at Beni Hassan. Here there are a number o
. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. ng been covered with the drifting sandof the desert and but recently excavated, are stdl in a re-markable state of preservation. The tombs, having beencut into the solid rock of the mountain side, remain untothis day, except as they have been defaced by human handsand robbed of mummies, coffins and funerary offerings. After leaving Memphis we pass several places of inter-est which will be referred to in the succeeding chapter, andstop at Beni Hassan. Here there are a number of very in-teresting rock-cut tombs. In order to understand fully theancient Egyptians motive in spending so much time andmoney on his burial-place, it will be necessary to knowsomething of his belief as to the future of the body. Briefly, then, although shrouded by innumerable super-stitions, the ancient Egyptian believed that after the lapseof many thousand years the soul would again return to andinhabit the body. When it is known that they believedthat the soul entered successively into a phoenix, a heron, a 180. jg2 WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. swallow, a snake, a crocodile, and other animals, some ideaof the superstition of the Egyptians will be apparent. Butrunning through this mass of absurdities was the faint lightof the immortality of the soul. After all its wanderingsand struggles, they believed it would live in the bodyagain. It might be interesting to inquire whence the ancientEgyptians had their faint knowledge of the immortality ofthe soul. It was far from the grand light and immortalityrevealed in the Gospel, but yet there was in it a ray of lightand truth. We believe it came to them from God. Weknow that he, in the olden time, made himself known to thepeople at sundry times and in divers manners. We can-not now follow this thought further. Believing, then, that at some remote period the soulwould live again, not in a new body, but in the same oldbody it dwelt in be
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