AN INQUIRY

INTO THE

HISTORY AND CHARACTER

OF

RAHA B.

BY

THE REV. J. H. CAUNTER, B.D.

AUTHOR OF

66 ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES," &c.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN AND LONGMANS,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

MDCCCL.

ΤΟ

THE REV. FREDERICK NOLAN, LL.D., F.R.S.,

VICAR OF PRITTLEWELL, ESSEX,

THIS VOLUME IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED

BY HIS

SINCERE AND FAITHFUL FRIEND,

THE AUTHOR.

ΑΝ

INQUIRY INTO THE HISTORY

AND

CHARACTER OF RAHAB.

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.

THERE are several important particulars in the very concise history of Rahab, which seem to require some further development than is presented by a bare recital of the transaction, upon which only an estimate of her character can be formed, as given in the sacred narrative. This is unavoidably brief, from the vast mass of records which the inspired writer had to exhibit, in order to embrace all the main events necessary so to complete his history that the series should be regular and distinct, though the details could not be otherwise than short and crowded. Thus it happens that facts are often nakedly stated, even when their importance is great, without comment; the moral

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