Identifier: homeofgodspeople00gage (find matches)
Title: The home of God's people
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Gage, William Leonard, 1832-1889
Subjects: Bible Palestine -- Description and travel
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : Dustin, Gilman & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e of the most ancient cities in the world, and the rise ofEgyptian civilization antedates all authentic history. Thepower of that nation culminated during the time of the He-brew sojourn in that country; Sesostris, the greatest and mostformidable of the Egyptian monarchs, being almost unques-tionably one of the Pharaohs who ruled while the Jews were inGoshen. It brings our subject out from the shadowy vaguenesswhich might seem to rest upon it, to remember that in all greatcollections of Egyptian antiquities, such as that at Berlin, forexample, the features of that mighty monarch are preserved,colossal in size, but perfectly well kept, and unquestionablyauthentic. Not that Rameses the Great, or Sesostris, as theGreeks called him, was the king of Egypt when Joseph wentdown into that country; not that he was the Pharaoh whoresisted Moses demands; he lived between Joseph and Moses,and was one of those kings whose stern hand crushed thechosen people. The royal residences were at Memphis, a
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PRESENTATION OF MOSES TO PHARAOH. From a beautiful English painting by Chapman. 56 GOSHEN. little s6uth of Cairo, and near the pyramids (to be seen onthose plains even in Abrahams time), and at Zoan, east ofthe Tanitic mouth of the Nile. The sacred city, the seat oflearning, the place where Joseph found his wife, and whereMoses was educated, was at On, or Heliojjolis, about ten milesnorth-east of Cau-o; its remains are to be discerned even atthe present day, though in a state of great decay. The tractwhich most interests us, however, is Goshen. The varioushints of the Bible, when brought together and compared,enable us to determine the location of that fertile tract. Itwas unquestionably within the Lower Delta; it was thecountry which lay between the capitals of Egypt and Pales-tine ; it was the tract on the extreme eastern frontier of thekingdom; it was but three days journey from the Red Sea;it embraced some one or more of the Nile mouths. As welearn from Ps. Ixxviii. 12, 43, Zoan w

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