It was re-echoed through England, Germany, France, and America,
and, if possible, yet more highly developed. In England
Theophilus Gale set himself to prove that not only all the
languages, but all the learning of the world, had been drawn from
the Hebrew records.
This orthodox doctrine was also fully vindicated in Holland.
Six years before the close of the seventeenth century, Morinus,
Doctor of Theology, Professor of Oriental Languages, and pastor
at Amsterdam, published his great work on _Primaeval Language_.
Its frontispiece depicts the confusion of tongues at Babel, and,
as a pendant to this, the pentecostal gift of tongues to the
apostles. In the successive chapters of the first book he proves
that language could not have come into existence save as a direct
gift from heaven; that there is a primitive language, the mother
of all the rest; that this primitive language still exists in its
pristine purity; that this language is the Hebrew. The second
book is devoted to proving that the Hebrew letters were divinely
received, have been preserved intact, and are the source of all
other alphabets.
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