The Jews at K'ae-fung-foo; Fac-similes of the Hebrew Manuscripts [pp. 240-250]

The Jews at Kae-fung-foo.
locality situated most probably in the distant west, (compare
Joel iii. 6.) The Chaldee and Peshito render it Spain; and in
modern Hebrew this is the name of that country.
Another construction of this passage is that this captive host
of the children of Israel, i. e. those of the kingdom of the ten
tribes carried captive to Assyria, shall on their return possess
the land which belonged to the Canaanites as far as Zarephath.
And there shall go up, return out of exile, saviours (comp.
Judges iii. 9,) for the defence of Israel, and the subjugation of
their foes, and particularly of Edom. "'And the kirigdom shall
be the LORD'S." By the protection and deliverance which he
shall afford to his people, and by his destruction of their foes,
he shall demonstrate to the world that he does indeed reign.
ART. V.-The Jews at K'ae-fung-foo; being a Narrattve of a
Mission of Inquiry to the Jewish Synagogue at K'ae-fung foo, on behalf of the London Society for promoting Christian ity among the Jews; with an introduction by the Right Rev.
George Smith, D. D., Lord Bishop of Victoria. Shanghae:
Printed at the London Missionary Society's Press, 1851,
pp. 82.
.Fac-similes of the Hebrew Manuscripts, obtained at the Jewish
Synagogue in K'ae-fung-foo. Shanghae: Printed at the Lon don Missionary Society's Press, 1851.
THE interest naturally felt by the Christian public in the
subject of these publications, leads us to suppose that we shall
do our readers an acceptable service, if we extract from the
pamphlet before us the substance of the information which it
contains.
For the little previous knowledge which we possess respecting the Jews in China, we are almost exclusively indebted to
the researches of the Roman Catholic missionaries in a former
age. It was at the commencement of the seventeenth century,
that the Jesuit missionary Ricci and his learned associates at
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