had corrupted the women of the Jews to such a degree that many of them had made themselves images of men, in imitation of the Egyptian images, and committed fornication with them, literally.
The meaning of the words, "great of flesh," as used by the prophet Ezekiel, in reference to the Egyptian negroes, is said by an ancient writer, says Adam Clarke, in his comment on that place in Ezekiel, in Latin, "Bene vasti longa mensura incognita nervi," and applied strictly to the negro nations on that particular, as also it does at the present time.
In chapter xxiii of that prophet, 8, 20, 21, 27, it is stated that all the lewd abominations practiced by the Jews, in his time, which was about 600 years B.C., were brought from Egypt, and learned of the Egyptians, whose flesh, says Ezekiel (verse 20), was as the flesh of asses, and their issue as the issue of horses; so gross, fierce, and brutal were they, in their love of disorderly practices. But what do the Scriptures mean in the above phraseology, respecting the Egyptians, namely, that their flesh was as the flesh of asses? Simply as follows: that between the sexual members of the negro man and the brute called an ass, there was but little difference as to elongation and magnitude.
If the passage is not thus understood, then it will follow that the Egyptian negroes, and consequently the whole negro race, are not human; for the prophet plainly says, that their flesh was as the flesh of asses; and asses are not human. To allow them, therefore, a place among the species called man, we are compelled to admit that interpretation.
