southward from Canaan. Now Moses said in the law, that when they (the Jews), should come into that country, that of the heathen round about them, they should make bondmen, or slaves of the people in those regions; and as there were no other people inhabiting old Canaan but the negroes of the race of Ham, it is certain that by the term heathen, no other people were alluded to.
In the time of St. Paul, the term gentile (as in the days of Noah, see Gen. x, 5) referred to the nations of the white race; as it is written by that apostle, in several of his letters to the churches, that he was the apostle of the gentiles. Can it be shown that Paul ever preached to a negro people at all? If not, then it follows that the word gentile, still referred to white men, in his time, as to Greeks, Romans, Gauls, Italians, Spaniards, and other nations of the north, but never to the negro race.
The strangers, therefore, to whom Moses alluded in Levit. xxv, 45, were the people of Ham, in all countries, whether Canaan, Egypt, Ethiopia, Lybia, or any other country or place inhabited by negroes.
This distinction is made still more clear by St. Luke xxi, 24, where the power which was finally to destroy Jerusalem, is called "the gentiles," who, it is well known, were the Romans, an empire of white men. This is further proven from the statement of that apostle, in Acts xxviii, 28, who, while at Rome, was a prisoner. In that passage it is said that as the Jews rejected the gospel, that he should turn to the gentiles, and that they would receive it. Paul was then in the very heart of the Roman or gentile states,
