[5] See Gesenius, Fuerst, or, indeed, any of the larger Hebrew Lexicons.
[6] _Hebrew and English Lexicon_; London: Baxter and Sons.
[7] _Egypt's Place in Universal History_; London: Longman and Co., vol.
i., p. 172.
[8] _Handwoerterbuch ueber das Alte Testament_; Leipzig: 1852.
[9] _Scholia in Pentateuchum._
[10] _Die Genesis Erklaert_; Leipzig: 1852.
[11] This is the literal translation of the Hebrew text, see Pagnini,
Rosenmueller etc.
[12] Our readers are no doubt aware that the proper names of the Bible
are differently spelled in the different versions. The orthography
uniformly followed by Catholics is derived from the Septuagint, which
was in general use throughout the Church in the very earliest ages.
Among Protestants, on the other hand, an attempt is made to approach
more closely to the orthography of the Hebrew text. Dr. Colenso has
naturally taken the proper names as he found them in the English
authorized version, and to avoid confusion in answering his arguments,
we shall follow the spelling which he has adopted.
[13] In fact it is quite clear from several passages that Abraham had
servants of both classes. See, for example, _Gen._, xvii. 12, 13, 23,
27.
[14] The death of Isaac must have taken place just ten years before the
Descent into Egypt. Isaac was 60 when Jacob was born (_Gen._, xxv. 26);
and Jacob was 130 when he went down to Egypt (_Gen._, xlvii. 9):
therefore Isaac, if then living, would have been 190. But we know that
he died at the age of 180 (_Gen._, xxxv. 28); that is to say, ten years
before.