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104 SHERM TO SINAI. [CH.

am enabled to arrive at no other conclusion
than the one adopted in a recent masterly pa­

per of the Quarterly Review, namely, that the
terms “ Wilderness of Sina i” and “ Horeb” are
synonymous, and were applied to the whole
region in the vicinity of the Mount, which, as
I have already noticed, stands boldly out by
itself, and in its altitude and appearance
has little in common with the surrounding
mountains.
On comparing Exod. xix. 2, xiv. 2-6, and

iii. 6; Deut. ii.; 1 Kings viii. 9, xix. 8; it is
impossible there can be any other way in
which those passages may be understood or
reconciled. Thus the convent at the base of
the Mount is in Horeb, and within its walls
the spot is pointed out where the miraculous
appearance of the burning bush was exhi­
bited. Rephidim too was in Horeb; and,
although the existence of water precludes
Eraibein, in which the pretended rock of Ma-
reb is exhibited, from that honour, yet there

is reason to believe, since it was only one
day’s journey from Sinai, that it is in a direc­

tion not far removed from it. We can scarcely
hope, at this distance of time, to find existing