BY THE SAME AUTHOR. VILLAGE SERMONS. Second Edition. Fcp. 8vo. cloth, 2s. 6d. THE COLONY OF NATAL. A Journal of Ten Weeks' Tour of Visitation among the Colonists and Zulu Kafirs of Natal. With a Map and Illustrations. Second Edition. Fcp. 8vo. cloth, 58. FOUR SERMONS ON ORDINATION AND ON MISSIONS. 18mo. sewed, 18. A LETTER TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY Upon the Proper Treatment of the case of Polygamist Converts from Heathenism. Second Edition. 18. 6d. THE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE ROMANS Newly Translated, and Explained from a Missionary Point of View. Fcp. 8vo. cloth, 78. 6d. MACMILLAN & CO. Cambridge and London. THE PENTATEUCH AND BOOK OF JOSHUA PART I. The Pentateuchi Examined as an Historical Narrative. 8vo. cloth, 6s. LONGMAN & CO. London. THE PENTATEUCH AND BOOK OF JOSHUA CRITICALLY EXAMINED BY THE RIGHT REV. JOHN WILLIAM COLENSO, D.D. BISHOP OF NATAL. 'We can do nothing against the Truth, but for the Truth.'-St. Paul, 2 Cor. xiii. S. 'Not to exceed, and not to fall short of, facts,-not to add, and not to take away,-to state the truth, PART II. LONDON: LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS, & GREEN. 1863. The right of translation is reserved. HECA 4ANENSIS LONDON PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO. NEW-STREET SQUARE Gavenische München PREFACE. It will be seen that, in this Second Part of my work, the argument to prove the non-Mosaic and unhistorical character of the Pentateuch is removed altogether from the ground on which the question was discussed in Part I, and is treated upon other, chiefly philological, grounds. My former book has had, I believe, the effect which I desired, having met with such a reception, generally, at the hands of English readers, as satisfies me that there will now exist a very general feeling among them, that there is certainly something in the story of the Exodus which needs to be explained, and assures me that the requisite attention will be given to the further examination of this important subject. It was my earnest desire and hope to secure such attention from the more thoughtful and intelligent of the Laity, without whose aid nothing, I knew, could be done to deliver the Church of England from the restraints of those time-honoured traditions, which have hitherto checked freedom of thought and speech among her members, and sealed, to a very great extent, the mouths of her doctors and clergy. But, in order to do this, it was absolutely necessary to awaken their interest in the question to be discussed, by treating it, in the first instance, in the most plain and popular manner, and using chiefly such reasoning as would require in the |
