passed by the Gihon? Did those German women, of whose virtue Tacitus wrote, belong to that Germany previously mentioned, and whose confines were encompassed by the Rhine? [1] Moses must interpret Moses, even as Tacitus must interpret Tacitus. The Cushite woman must be an inhabitant of the only land of Cush, which Moses mentioned, as the German women must be inhabitants of the only Germany Tacitus mentioned. Let us examine this matter more fully. The Cushite woman whom Moses married, whence came she? Moses must have married her, either in Egypt or in his tramp through Arabia. If he married her in Egypt, as tradition says, then may we know that her country was contiguous to Egypt, and may safely settle down on Ethiopia proper. If he married her while on the tramp through Arabia, from among the surrounding tribes, then must he have passed through her country This is the opinion of many The question then results in this,
- ↑ Germania xviii.
Note. We have a case exactly similar to this of Moses, in the history of Herodotus. In Book II. Euterpe, he speaks of the river "Ister" as commencing at the city of Pyrene, among the Celtse, flows through the centre of Europe, and 'empties itself into the Euxine.'" "Wherefore has the question long since been settled that this Ister is our modern Danube? Because the geographical and popular allusions of Herodotus demand it. Herodotus must define Herodotus. Even so Moses.
