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The accounts which profane writers give of him. ibid
His contemporaries in the heathen nations....... 133
He, and his descendants, worshipped two distinct
Divine persons
... 443
Before his time, no appearances of GoD or Angels 460
He knew the LORD, by his name JEHOVAH ..... 462
Actæus, king of Attica ...

327

Adrichomius, his mistake about the situation of Seir. 248
Alcmena, the Inscription and Antiquities found in her

tomb....

Amphictyon, king of Attica

317

312

Amphictyones, their rise, constitution, and council.. 338
Animals, sacred ones, of Egypt, consecrated to

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their gods....

361

Areopagus, the rise and constitution of that court
Argos, the rise of that kingdom ....

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Astronomy, its use in the ancient agriculture
Athlius, first king of Eles....

Atlas, lived where, and when

...

BELUS, son of Neptune, went to Babylon..... 291
Not the same as Belus, the succèssor of Nimrod. 297
Birthright, Esau's, what...

154

327

326

CADMUS built Thebes

Mistakes about his time

When he lived

...213, 219

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314

Whether he was a Phoenician or an Egyptian.... 316
Canaan, its first kingdoms erected upon principles of

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Why called Διφυής.

Cedrenus, his opinion about Belus
Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, who
Chinese, their government, when first settled
Chronus, Abraham, so called by the heathens
Circumcision enjoined Abraham, &c.
Corinthian history begins where
Ciphers, the Egyptian, why invented..
DANAUS came into Greece

...

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110

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361

322

323

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377

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Obtained the kingdom of Argos...

Dedicated the image of a wolf to Apollo....
Deluge, none in Attica in the times of Ogyges, nor
in Thessaly in the reign of Deucalion...

... 329

EGYPTIAN kingdoms, not founded at first upon
despotic authority.

175

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Exodus out of Egypt, when..

Faith, the only principle upon which the men of the
early times could know GoD...

262

266

399,

400

503

...445, 460

GEPHYRÆI came with Cadmus into Greece.
Greece, its history very short and imperfect, until
after Cecrops' time.

Page,

319

.... 325

IIEATHENS acknowledged one supreme Gób......
Heliopolis, the opinion of the priests there about the
passage of the Israelites over the Red sea........
Hellenes, who most anciently so called....

How the Greeks came to be universally called by

516

344

this name.............

Hyagnes, an improver of music

JACOB, his temper and disposition.

346

347

210

Gets the blessing from Esau...

234

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The number of his family that came into Egypt.. 286

Jehovah, at first the name of the supreme Gon in all

Indian polity, remarks upon it.

Joseph sold into Egypt.....

nations.:

452

Images, Egyptian, most ancient not of human shape.. 376

Indigetes, the rise of deities so called...

359

Inachus, how ancient.

136

159

258

268

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270

271

272

273

276

His conduct and advancement
Interprets Pharaoh's dreams
Made deputy over Egypt

Raises Pharaoh immense riches:
Remarks upon his management..
Why he bought not the priests' lands
His brethren came into Egypt.

Embalms Jacob, and buries him in great state... 282
His behaviour to his brethren after Jacob's death. 283
By what king of Egypt he was advanced................ .ibid.

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Several observations upon it....

Page.

385

Ister wrote a book about the migrations out of Egypt 305
KINGS, the opinion of their divine right........... 182
Were, in Greece, the ancient priests of their
kingdoms..

... 189

LEARNED men have often embraced the grossest
absurdities . . ...

Legislators, ancient ones paid a surprising deference
to paternal authority

Lelex, first king of Lacedæmon

Letters introduced into Greece by Cadmus

What the ancients meant by the mimesis they

ascribed to them .....

Longinus, his character of Moses

Lot, saved from the destruction of Sodom.

His wife turned into a pillar of salt ..

...

Lucian, his injudicions cavil at Moses' account of the

creation

Lyre invented by Mercury.

MAGICIANS not able by enchantments to work
miracles

373

178

328

322

364

434

111

ibid.

434

ibid.

... 475

The Egyptians really performed the wonders
ascribed to them ...

How they performed them.

476

482

Magistrate, civil, his duty to establish religion...... 208
Marsham's (Sir J.) arguments about Inachus considered 136
Magic, Egyptian, did not proceed from the influence
of dæmons...

But from the study of natural philosophy.
Mercury, his three-chorded lyre

414

418

434

The second, author of many Egyptian superstitions 359
Miracles, not so many performed amongst the heathens
as pretended..

.... 475

Montfaucon errs in his explanation of the Egyptian
images...

His account of the table of Isis not just.

Moses, when born

Preserved by Pharaoh's daughter...

Made a leader of the Egyptian armies.
Visited the Hebrews
Fled to Midian....
Kept Jethro's flock
His war in Ethiopia..

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Moses said to marry the king of Ethiopia's daughter 398

When he wrote the book of Genesis

Not the author of the Book of Job
Learned in all the learning of the Egyptians
Learned to write both prose and verse.
His song, in what verse written.
Is appointed to go to Egypt...

...

Asks the name of God, and why.
Goes with Aaron to Pharaoh...
Not angry with Pharaoh....

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401

402

....

407

434

436

438

440

467

498

NAMES, Heathen and Rabbinical notions about them 441

Not given arbitrarily in the early times
Human names not always rightly given..
Name of God discovers his nature.

I AM THAT I AM explained

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Of the Egyptian Gods given to eminent men.
Of heroes given to others in like manner.

Divers names given to one and the same person.. ibid.
One name frequently to divers persons.

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Orus, the Egyptian, was thought to become the star

Orion.

354

Ovid, his fable about the serpent's teeth sown by Carl-

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Did not think Moses' works real miracles.

His obstinacy, whence it proceeded.

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Plato, his opinion about the names of the heathen
Gods...

446

His advice in order to know the names of the Gods 447
Plutarch, his explanation of the Delphian inscription. 450
His opinion about the heathen Hero-gods

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