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 lect bends beneath the weight of scientific knowledge, but who say in their hearts, "There is no God;" and who, consequently, are without God in the world.

OTHING has perplexed theologians, so much as the question, "Why could not the magicians of Egypt, with their enchantments, produce lice, as well as turn the water into blood, and their rods into serpents?" The question has not been answered, so far as we are aware, by any writer. We offer a solution of the apparent mystery, though we do not presume that it will satisfy every inquirer. The turning of water into blood was representative of their falsification of truth; and this miracle, therefore, depicted justly their own state, and was permitted that they might be condemned out of their own mouth. The production of frogs represented their fallacious reasonings, and described the unclean spirits with whom they were in communication; but, immersed in evil though they were, they did not consider themselves evil. Evil to them was good; darkness, light; and falsity, truth. Now, while they were under the influence of falsity, it was impossible for them, in such a state, to detect evil; for false reasoning can never bring evil to light. But lice represent evil in the extreme; they are produced from, and are the emanations of evil. Spiritually con-