The mystery of the Great pyramid : traditions concerning it and its connection with the Egyptian Book of the dead : with numerous illustrations

MYSTERY OF THE GREAT PYRAMID

that in Melchisedec do we really meet the great patriarch of Uz, near the end of those one hundred and forty years of glory which succeeded his sore affliction.

The account, also in Job xxix, of Job’s greatness and character—‘ Unto me men gave ear and waited, and kept silence at my counsel . . . I chose out their way, and dwelt as a king ’’—seems to fit in well with Manetho’s statement about that strange race which obtained such influence over Egypt and its rulers that they induced them to close the temples and cast out their heathen gods “ without a battle”, and to lend their co-operation in raising an imperishable monument to the true God.