| Show THE B 6 OF aeve uto ito genuineness i i br afier 1 chap AP taut VAUT tad C abro IC o f ae jinoian Jin oten oien ft a 16 affey 0 d o iti t s aar 0 tes ees oes ies dle dig rhe the ante anfe ante di au vean m monarchs Josep joser I 1 I 1 y hta ata I 1 and canese edg fow log rog 1099 in the beyerl seventh paragraph aia ala griph of the book of abraham Abraha iii 06 ala the fol lowing adl w the first g government averit of egypt was as established d b by Pharaoh the eldest son of E tug aha ahe dariff hap r nc nf jinni cwi kwi iwi t atter after the manner anner of the government g ern of 0 Ham bam which was patriarch ai 61 hll hil hia hla kingdom and judged his bia people wisely and justly all efa days beeking seeking earnestly to imitate thal that order orden established by the r athers fathers in the aa generations genera tlona tiona irr in the days daya af af patriarch patriarchal at reign even eyen in the feign reign of adam and oho alyo of noah his father vhf wb 0 im vath with the biess bless blessings ingi of f the tho earth ad with the blessing blessings sot of wisdom b but ut cursed him as pertaining to the priesthood the next ziek ja is as follows ono oty pharaoh being of that lin jin lineage cage bi by which he could not haye have the rrie prie priesthood at notwithstanding dang the pha rha would fain claim it from koah noah through hatm hato therefore my ther kaa waa led hway by their idola kiy but I 1 hali hail shall hall wi to delineate the chrobo chronology logy rupa runa back from frond to the beginning of th the creation for the lel 1 cor gabaye cords corda haye come into my hands bands which bich I 1 hold unto u nto this present time 11 we desire to drav dra attention iori to to several sla sia verat veral ideas advanced adv aneed anted in lit the abo dho ve lat that th the early yearly egyptians were acquainted anted with events that thu occurred before the flood nd that the iho antediluvian patriarchs reigned in the midst f their sas sal bings ard 3rd that thi sonn of govera ment ihen was the prevailing one in an the days immediately succeeding the deluge ab the egyptians egyptian Egypt lan ian dished n their m luat lust ail ari imitation 04 bogus bojus priesthood that rapidly carried the people info into idolatry ath 6 tb that aoraham and probably many others othere possessed records running back lathe lothe beginning of time ume modern res yes research earah has ba 11 ip dilated the of abrahama hama record with regard to the condition of society amongst the early dwellers on ort the banks of the nile listen usten to what mr oborn states on this subject and though in gif different Olf wording note how ully he beara bears out the patriae patriarchs cab assertions Mert ions fons mr 0 remarks in WE bin religions Belig tons lons of the world that 6 egyptian remains prove clearly elearly bat that while whilo to ail appe appearance arander the first settlers in egypt carried along with them bome home germinal of very malignant religious they carried alth thema in addition to tha nicie ancestral or genealogical and historical knowledge a most mc i deep experimental k knowledge D we rd ge and aud conviction of df the tho re 0 of di vine being and a agency oen gen bri lri and a knowledge also of th that t fo form r in which from the 0 bf the rali rail the oft or ott the d most ost import religion rell reil glod appears to have beien been imparted to mankind we mea ufa I 1 not nut attempt to establish the ideas froni from the booe book of abraham h a abbye noticed ln thear the braer abra a r in which h ch they are placed place but before bergre re leaving iving e this bra branch uch of the subject bleet we beli beiley evid d that we shall beable to adduce evidence to convince all till who are willing to learn earn the truth that abrahama 1 ments menta aa as kiven given given by aho the prophet jobe Jose phare historically or the fact of bf abraham coming in ih possession of certain genealogical records cords je may seem somewhat in credible to those who mho have not studied the subject many are too apt pt to consider the bf those tha ae early ages as apt one nep hep removed irom barbarian being if we is sense nae their idea very much on apar ayar a par with th the modern Tartar or bedouin arab thought of such sueh a people possessing a literature beems seems 10 to be jp conceivable to the he minds in inas inus of 61 many da i y otherwise i people but have nave such ever noticed that the bible bibie in one of its very first 91 bap hap 1 a p tera actu actually any aDy speaks of lithe the 0 0 x of generations genera tiona of adam gen chap v vel ver ijane it is from that book apparently that moses genealogical record of the i anted elu ulu was transcribed in confirmation of the existence of sueh such a book josephus states that those who lived before the flood noted down with great accuracy both the births amk awk ant ani deaths of illustrious lust fust rious men joslow job Jos how boW 1 chap aj 3 which record would undoubtedly be preserved among thu the royal roya archives ves and aa as massuch such being deemed of odthe the utmost maluo aa az giving the genealogy of the hiep ing lug tug be saved kyed by noah in tb the eArk ark he to ab raham and Jose Job josephus ephus also being the reigning sovereign at ht the time of tiie the deluge delugo Josep Jose josephus hus bus cany caay states that that ire ice calamity happened in the six sh hundredth M sky aly hy 1 T r book I 1 chaps chap 3 in fact josephus ives a list of oi the monarchs or patriarchs ai as they are in uno ino bile blie leui luo tuo lack tact that he recognized ahem hem aa as the sovereigns of the lorld lavery la very strong corroborative testimony of toe the statement of abraham that adam and noah nonh reigned aa as kings over their fellow follow men the following la Is josephus statement with regard to td this matter tog jog jos book 1 I chap 3 seth beth was wag born when hen ben adam was 14 his year who lived years beth both begat enoch in his ath aja lh year who when he lived years delivered the government tb cb canaan his son aon whom bedad he had at we he lived years when he be had lived years sears had bad his son maleleel Mala leel who vad iad was born in his bla year this maleleel mata Mala leel leei having lived years died luct luet leaving his bon eon jarad whom he begat when be bb was at bier th year he lived years and then his hia bon eon enoch succeeded him who was born when his phia father was years old now wow he when he be had lived years yearb departed and went to god 1 whence it Is that they have not wr written aften down his death now Met husela the son of enoch who was born to him when he was years old had bad lamech for his bon eon when he was years of age to whom he delivered the tho government ment when he had retained it j lears ears earb now lamech when he had bad governed years appointed noah his son eon to he bb the ruler of the people who w was bodif barrilo bor nilo rilo to lamech wb when en helas he wad was 1825 nearse earse id ld and retained the government yearb years we here draw attention to a somewhat remarkable coincidence it ills is that the length of the reigns of these patriarchs as given by josephus agrees eithne afie onne exception we believe with the length of rr h air lives according to bible chronology but what makes this thiu fea tea tu remore remora remarkable is nohna does rinea alin is the chinese do in their antediluvian chronology the chinese account speaks of ten dynasties of superior beings who ruled in their country 1000 yearb years each before the arky fell foil ou the fhe earth ie the flood it is not hard bard to see that this is only a different and a singular manner of bf relating the same facts informs us that eichof each vt these ten generations did extend near a thousand housand years sears but he let jet us know aud his hla father walked much of their earthly race together chojo the journey urney of each way was iong long but it was a simultaneous travel now www we think that the statement of 0 abraham turns a key keys by which a flood of light is throw thrown u on the early history odthe of tha finh fiat nations that came into being after the flood for instance the egyptian the chaldean and the Uh chinese inese scientists and religionists have been wrangling for scores of years with regard to the chron chronology of these nations both partie partle sas bas a rule role seeming to take it for granted that these chronological records ahou abou should id stop at the flood for thet the eason reason that all mankind but one family of eight were ti then lende destroyed st As there Is abla able evidence that the ancients were acquainted with facts and events relating reia reJa ting to the earth and the heavens long anterior to the gene rally accepted dato date of the deluge I 1 sceptics have loudly expressed thel their r doubts as aalthe to the nood flood having oc at all but when we take into consideration the fact that those thos who were i were the royal family the kin hin hing king g and queen with their three throe sons and the tho princesses t heir their wives vives and that this thes king king noah ruled after aften 1 aa arviell well weil as before the flood flodd ib it remains no longer a wonder how these nations traced their existence to tia years yeara long anterior an to that dire sire calamity to anem it was a terrible disaster in the history of their nation nothing more there was no n the tha noyal royal descent A he the same hing king reigned before an and d after it took place the same bame dynasty 1 wt renial remained ned in power hisson succeeded him throne the thle royal records record were amere preserved and the egyptians the Chal Obal deans and t the he chinese alike with natural national natio naf pride all ali claim claimed d the sovereigns who ruled from auda adam to noah as the kings of their peculiar nation their records were like three con vergin glines S centering at noah and arid from him bim continuing backward in one i and the same straight line to ada adam ni to illustrate let us suppose a case cased cewill we will imagine that a vast desolation sweeps over the empire of germany Th the kinn king and I 1 the three princes with their cami cavi tw ua borr norr horrors ors by hn and d by these three princes esta eAta establish blIsh thrones of their own say saye one in in prussia sla sia one in la and ana dee one in inu hanover would the national historians of future ages ageg when these three kingdoms had become great and populous stop in their respective national histories at the date that this overwhelming catastrophe occurred would it not be much more reasonable to conclude that they would accumulate the tho histories of this thia and former epochs and continue their accounts through this cala eala calamity miti to the earliest days their records would reach we think so and in this way we discover an at eny eay easy and reasonable sol soi solution u sidn to tb the a that beset chinese arld and egyptian chronology and are able to account forthe for the interminable lists I of kings that grace their annals in fact so far as egypt is concerned it had no consecutive i 0 chronology this truth is now admittedly admitted by Vy the most learned in that branch of acl science but they undoubtedly carried theli their records in a jumbled up way back beyond the flood probably obtain obtaining in g some boma information thereon from tho the records in the possession of Abraham and in post days they in vanity inserted the names of scores of princes who reigned contemporaneously in various parts of the valley of the nile admit these two facts and the solution is found to the mysteries of egyptian chronology what they had of it again why should we permit the descendants bf shern as in the case of the hebrews to monopolize mono their antediluvian pr pro 0 these men were the fathers of all mankind and all had bad eq estial hai hat rights 9 to claim them as their own nelsons Nel Ne lions sons its cause causo and cure i ni fv to T 0 be continued i |
