Note 22 — Part II. SCRIPTURE IRRECONCILABLE WITH HUMAN EXPERIENCE.

Take two examples of this etymology. Hebrew is supposed to be derived from Heber, sou of Salah, great-grandson of Shem, who is called “the father of all the children of Heber” (Gen. x., 21–24); but Abraham, the 6th remove from Heber, is called a Hebrew after he crossed over into Canaan (Gen. xiv., 13). The more probable derivation of the word is heber (an emigrant, one that has crossed over); if so, Abraham was called a hebrew because he was a sojourner who had crossed over into the “land of promise.”