The Ten Tribes of Israel Historically Identified with the Aborigines of the Western Hemisphere

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. (Page 50.J NAMES AND TITLES OF THE CREATOR. None of the names and titles by which the Creator has manifested His character, are without precise signification and special reference; and of this kind of knowledge the sacred writers knew the deep value. For the information of young readers, it may be useful to remark that the term Yehovah, expressive of Am-wasShall Be, is an exception to the genius (of the Hebrew language, which, recognizing only the past and the future, leaves the present tense to be mentally supplied. "And God spake unto Moses and said unto him, I am mnp (Yehovah). I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob by my name "Hip bN (God Almighty, ) but by my name Yehovah was I not known to them; and also I established my covenant with them to give them the Land of Canaan, the Land of their pilgrimage wherein they were strangers: and I have moreover heard the groaning of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered My Covenant." Exod. vi. 1--5. It was therefore by the Name Yehovah that the Creator announced Himself as the Saviour and Redeemer of the children of Israel while under the dominion of the posterity of Ham. Moses was moreover commanded to say to the children of Israel rPPI (I AM) hath sent me unto you. This was the TYffV INbn (angel of Yehovah) who appeared as a consuming fire in the midst of an unconsumed bush in Horeb, who would have borne His people as on eagles' wings to the promised Land, but not having, by regeneration, become assimilated with His RIGHTEOUSNESS, they could not enter into His Rest at that time---or in these bodies. That angelic nature in which the ineffable Name was enshrined could neither atone for transgression, nor mediate between the...