Now, what nations did God cast out of Canaan? The answer is, he cast out seven mighty negro nations, who were more powerful, and greater in numbers, than were the Jews, all of whom, as said by Moses, were guilty of all the appalling deeds, set down in order in the two chapters above referred to. That such practices did prevail among the people of Ham, is stated not only by Moses, in his time, but Herodotus, the most ancient of the Greek historians, says the same thing respecting the negroes of his age. The statements of this author are to be relied on, says Adam Clarke, in his commentary on one of the same chapters we have referred the reader to as above, namely, the xxth of Leviticus, verse 16.
Herodotus says that he saw, when he was in Egypt, with his own eyes, an Egyptian woman accompanying with a he-goat, in the very streets of the city she lived in. The time when Herodotus traveled in Egypt and other parts of Africa, was some 450 years B.C., and more than a thousand from the time of Moses, which proves the incurable proneness of that people, the negro race, to the most extraordinary and shameful abuses of human nature.
Dr. Clarke says, in his comment on Exod. xxii, 19, that it is certain, from an account in Sonnini's travels in Egypt, that lying with dumb beasts is practiced even now, as well as in the time of Moses. The goat, in the New Testament, see Math. xxv, 33, is used as the symbol of all sinners. On this symbol, says Clarke, "the goat is naturally quarrelsome, lascivious, and excessively ill-scented, and was considered a fit symbol of all riotous, profane, and impure
