. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. a circumstance not in itself unusvial in that region ;but the wonder was that the bush continued to burn without being consumed, and without anysubsidence of the flame. Moses advanced to view this strange sight more closely ; but, as hedrew nigh, he heard a voice, from the midst of the burning bush, calling him by his , he answered, Here am I. Then the voice cried, Approach not hither. Pull » 11 lies, ii. 181. i We have ourselves already hiizirflcd it as the mo^t proljalilo conjectur
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. a circumstance not in itself unusvial in that region ;but the wonder was that the bush continued to burn without being consumed, and without anysubsidence of the flame. Moses advanced to view this strange sight more closely ; but, as hedrew nigh, he heard a voice, from the midst of the burning bush, calling him by his , he answered, Here am I. Then the voice cried, Approach not hither. Pull » 11 lies, ii. 181. i We have ourselves already hiizirflcd it as the mo^t proljalilo conjecture, tliat she was tlie daugliter of Tiiutlunes I. and Amense, and that, as in tlie previous ca^e, her husband ascended the tlirone witli lier under tlie name oC Tliothnies II ; the siicceedin!; monarch, Tliothmes III., would then appear to have l<een tlieir son,—which iact would account for the appearance of Iter name in his reign also. We can see no explanation which seems so fully to agree with circumstances as this. t Ancient Egyptians, i. 52. § Page 146. Chap. II.] THE BONDAGE. 159. [Chapel of the Burning Bush.*] thy sandals from thy feet: for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. The baringof the feet, thus required, was a mark of respect, common to all Oriental nations. The voicethen said, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, tlie God of Isaac, and theGod of Jacob. Then Moses hid his face in his robe; for he was afraid to look at God : andthus, barefooted and with veiled face, he stood to receive the Divine commands. The voicenow said, I have surely beheld the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heardtheir cry on account of their task-masters; and am come down to deliver them from the handof the Egyptians; and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land—a land flowing withmilk and honey. Lo, as now the cry of the sons of Israel hath come unto me, and I have alsoseen the oY)pressions with which the Egyptians oppress them
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