The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

204 MAN, AND THE NEGRO.
God said to Moses,
*'Go unto Pharaoh, and tell him,
Behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thy cattle,
which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses,
upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep;
there shall be a very grievous murrian. And the Lord
shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle
of Kg"ypt; and there shall nothing* die of all that is the
children's of Israel.
And the Lord did that thing on
the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died; but of
the cattle of the children of Israel died not one. And
the heart of Pharoah was hardened, and he did not
let the people go. And the Lord said unto Aaron,
Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let
Moses sprinkle
it toward the heaven in the sight of
Pharoah. And it shall become small dust in all the
land of Kgypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with
all the
blains upon man and upon beast, throughout
land of Egypt. And they took the ashes of the furnace,
and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled
it toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth
with blains upon man and upon beast." (Ex. ix, i, 3,
4, etc.)
We are thus taught (1) that the '^cattle" are
qiiadrupeds, horses, camels, etc. And that the
**beasts" were a very different class of animals, as
shown by the fact that the "cattle" were first afflicted;
then afterwards the "beasts" were afflicted. This is
signigcant, when we consider that each succeeding
plague was more injurious to the Egyptians than its