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All this is very edifying, and one might have had very little reason to doubt the story, had not
the “ten lost tribes” been made to play their part in it. How could these tribes, lost between
700 and 900 B.C., each send six men some centuries later, to satisfy the whim of Ptolemy,
and to disappear once more immediately afterwards from the horizon A miracle, verily.
We are expected, nevertheless, to regard such documents as the Septuagint as containing
direct divine revelation: Documents originally written in a tongue about which nobody now
knows anything; written by authors that are practically mythical, and at dates as to which no
one is able even to make a defensible surmise; documents of the original copies of which
there does not now remain a shred.
The Real Hebrew Characters Lost - (Page 175) Yet people will persist in talking of the
ancient Hebrew, as if there were any man left in the world who knows one word of it. So little,
indeed was Hebrew known that both the Septuagint and the New Testament had to be
written in a heathen language (the Greek), and no better reasons for it given than what
Hutchinson says, namely, that the Holy Ghost chose to write the New Testament in Greek.
The Hebrew language is considered to be very old, and yet there exists no trace of it
anywhere on the old monuments, not even in Chaldaea. Among the great number of
inscriptions of various kinds found in the ruins of that country:
One in the Hebrew Chaldee letter and language has never been found; nor
has a single authentic medal or gem in this newfangled character been ever
discovered, which could carry it even to the days of Jesus. [ Book of God.
p.453.]
The original Book of Daniel is written in a dialect which is a mixture of Hebrew and Aramaic;
it is not even in Chaldaic, with the exception of a few verses interpolated later on. According
to Sir. W. Jones and other Orientalists, the oldest discoverable languages of Persia are the
Chaldaic and Sanskrit, and there is no trace of the “Hebrew” in these. It would be very
surprising if there were, since the Hebrew known to the Philologists does not date earlier
than 500 B.C., and its characters belong to a far later period still. Thus, while the real Hebrew
characters, if not altogether lost are nevertheless so hopelessly transformed -
A mere inspection of the alphabet showing that it has been shaped and made
regular, in doing which the characteristic marks of some of the letters have
been retrenched in order to make them more square and uniform - [ Asiatic
Journal, VII., p.275, quoted by Kenealy.]
That no one but an initiated Rabbi of Samaria or a “Jain” could read them, the new system of
the masoretic points has made them a sphinx-riddle for all. Punctuation is now to be found
everywhere in all the later manuscripts, and by means of it anything can be made of a text; a
Hebrew scholar can put on the texts any interpretation he likes. Two instances given by
Kenealy will suffice:
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