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Words of wonder 681/3/2024 The markets were overstocked with them, so that Josephus says, in another place, they were sold with their wives and children at the lowest price, there being many to be sold, but few purchasers.” And we learn from St. And when Jerusalem was taken by Titus, of the captives who, as we have observed on Deuteronomy 28:62, were sent into Egypt, those under seventeen were sold: but so little care was taken of these captives, that eleven thousand of them perished for want. It appears from Josephus, that in the reigns of the first two Ptolemies many of the Jews were slaves in Egypt. They might be carried thither in the ships of the Tyrian or Sidonian merchants, or by the Romans, who had a fleet in the Mediterranean, and this was a much safer way of conveying so many prisoners than sending them by land. They had walked through the sea as dry land at their coming out, but now they should be carried thither in ships. “They had come out of Egypt triumphant, but now they should return thither as slaves. This is also well illustrated by the bishop. By the way whereof - That is, to which place or part of the world, namely Egypt I spake unto thee, thou shalt see it no more again - Referring to what he had said, Deuteronomy 17:16. With ships - This expression seems to be intended to remind them of that time when they went over the sea without ships, God miraculously drying up the sea before them, a time which now they would have occasion sadly to remember. The Lord shall bring thee into Egypt - Which was literally fulfilled under Titus, when multitudes of them were carried thither and sold for slaves.
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