[226] _J. Gumilla_, “Histoire de l’Oronoque,” (Hist. of Oronoko), Avignon 1708. Vol. I. p. 183. _Veigl_ in _Murr’s_ “Sammlung der Reisen einiger Missionare,” (Collection of Travels of Various Missionaries), p. 67.—_de Pauw_, “Reflections sur les Américains,” (Reflections on the Natives of America), Vol. II. p. 148. _Spizelius, Theoph._, Elevatio revelationis Montezinianae de repertis in America tribubus Israeliticis, (Confutation of the Montezinian revelation as to the Finding of the lost Tribes of Israel in America.) Bâle 1661. 8vo. _Burdach_, Physiology. Vol. III. p. 386. [227] Gospel of St. John, Ch. VII. v. 23., Εἰ περιτομὴν λαμβάνει ἄνθρωπος ἐν σαββάτῳ, ἵνα μὴ λυθῇ ὁ νόμος Μωσέως, ἐμοὶ χολᾶτε ὅτι ὅλον ἄνθρωπον _ὑγιῆ ἐποίησα_ ἐν σαββάτῳ. (for translation see text above). [228] I Samuel, Ch. XVII. v. 14. It is true we find even in Genesis the covenant with Jehovah celebrated by Abraham by means of circumcision; but it was in later times only in each case that this custom was referred back to him as being racial father of the Nation. For the same reason in the case of Joshua the matter is so represented as if the Jews had been already circumcised at their expulsion from Egypt. If this had really and truly been the case, it is impossible to see why circumcision was not carried out on those born on the march to Canaan. They were perfectly able to keep other laws, and they could have observed this too, if it had been given them at the time! [229] Leviticus, Ch. XIX. v. 6. [230] Leviticus, Ch. XII. v. 3. [231] _J. G. Hofmann_, De causa foecunditatis gentis circumcisae in circumcisione quaerenda, (On the Reason for the Fertility of the Circumcised Race to be sought in the fact of their Circumcision), Leipzig 1739. 4to.—_S. B. Wolfsheimer_, De causis fecunditatis Hebraeorum nonnullis sacr. cod. praeceptibus nitentibus, (On the Causes of the Fertility of the Jews as dependent upon certain Precepts of the Sacred Volumes), Halle 1742.—_Bauer_, loco citato Vol. I. p. 63. [232] The Talmud says: Quicunque Israelita liberis operam non dat, est velut _homicida_. (An Israelite, whoever he be, that fails to give heed to the procreation of children, is a kind of _murderer_). _Selden_, Uxor. Hebraic. Bk. I. ch. 9.