look to other gods, and love flag- of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king;

2 So I bought her to me for fif- and shall fear the LORD and his teen pieces of silver, and for an goodness in the latter days.

ISRAEL KNOWN

DURING THE

SECOND WILDERNESS JOURNEY AS

"THE SARMATIANS"

AND FINALLY IN

NORTHERN EUROPE AS

THE ANGLO-SAXON RACE

Israel being an abomination unto the Egyptians on account of her servitude prevented the mingling of the seed of the Egyptians with the seed of Jacob. On the return of Israel to Palestine she forgot her mission and served Baal, as a result Jacob mingled her seed with the seed of the Canaanites. This made it imperative for the Lord to send Israel into captivity. When Jacob escaped from captivity the Lord put her under such hard pressure that each maiden must kill from one to three of the enemy before marriage, as a result of this procedure Israel became a pure race and was known as "The Sarmatians." "In the time of Herodotus (iv. 110-117) the steppes between the Don and the Caspian were inhabited by the Sauromatae, a nomadic, horse-riding people, whose women rode, hunted, and took part in battle like the men, so that legend (presumably the legend of the Greek colonists on the Black Sea) represented the race as descendants of the Amazons by Scythian fathers. It is recounted both by Herodotus and by Hippocrates (De Aer., 17) that no maiden was allowed to marry till she had slain a foe (or three foes), after which she laid aside her masculine habits. The Scythians, we are told, called the Amazons Оioρлαуa, which seems to be an Iranian name and to mean "lords of man," and it is reasonable to think that the word was applied to the Sarmatian viragos by the Scythians, who themselves kept women in great subjection, and thus expressed their surprise at the dominating position of the female sex among their neighbours beyond the Don. But in spite of the difference of their customs in this point Scythians and Sarmatians spoke almost the same language (Herod. iv. 117), and, whatever difficulty still remains as to the race of the Scythians, their language and religion are now generally held to have been of Iranian character (see Scythia). That the Sarmatians, at least, were of Median origin is the express opinion of Diodorus (ii. 43) and Pliny. From their seats east of the Danube the Sarmatians at a later date moved

westward into the lands formerly Scythian, one branch, the "transplanted" Iazyges (I. μeravaoyai) being settled between the Danube and the Theiss at the time of the Dacian wars of Rome, while other Sarmatian tribes, such as the Maitae on the eastern shores of Lake Maeotis and the Roxolani between the Don and the Dnieper, ranged over the steppes of southern Russia. The country of Sarmatia, however, as that term is used for example by Ptolemy, means much more than the lands of the Sarmatians, comprising all the eastern European plain from the Vistula and the Dniester to the Volga, whether inhabited by nomad Sarmatians, by agricultural Slavs and Letts, or even by Finns. This Sarmatia was arbitrarily divided into an Asiatic and a European part, east and west of the Don respectively.Enyc. Brit. 9th Ed., Vol. 21, pages 310 to 311.

Philip of Macedon defeated the Scythians, B. C. 339, after that the Sarmatians crossed the Don and moved north and west in Europe, and finally became known as "The Anglo-Saxon Race."