endants of Jacob, to despoil
them.

_Sec. 8_

The country of Romeles, _i.e._, the fatherland of Romulus; in our days,
Rome.

_Secs. 11, 12_

It must be admitted that the Israelites, in spite of their incontestable
wit and intelligence, seem to have only had regard for the present.
Like all other Oriental peoples, they only in their misfortunes
remembered the faults of their past, which they each time had to expiate
by centuries of slavery.

_Chapter IV_

_Sec. 6_

As it is easy to divine, this verse refers to Joseph, who was a lineal
descendant from King David. Side by side with this somewhat vague
indication may be placed the following passages from the Gospels:

--"The angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph,
thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife" ... (Matt.
i, 20.)

--"And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried,
saying, Hosanna to the son of David" (Matt. xxi, 9.)

--"To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of
David;" ... (Luke i, 27.)

--"And the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David;"
... (Luke i, 32.)

--"And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as
was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli ... which was
the son of Nathan, which was the son of David" (Luke iii, 23-31.)

_Sec. 7_

Both the Old and the New Testaments teach that God promised David the
rehabilitation of his throne and the elevation to it of one of his
descendants.

_Secs. 8, 9_

--"And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom,
and the grace of God was upon him."

--"And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the
temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and
asking them questions."

--"And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and
answers."

--"And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that
I must be about my Father's business?"

--"And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and
man" (Luke ii, 40, 46, 47, 49, 52.)

_Chapter V_

_Sec. 1_

"Sind," a Sanscrit word, which has been modified by the Persians into
Ind. "Arya," the name given in antiquity to the inhabitants of India;
signified first "man who cultivates the ground" or "cultivator."
Anciently it had a purely ethnographical signification; this appellation
assumed later on a religious sens