Emphasis Preaching Journal

I once read in a scholarly work that the most amazing thing about the civilization of ancient Egypt was its consistency, its resistance to change. Though change always takes place eventually, this ancient people neither encouraged, welcomed nor, in many cases, recognized the inevitability of change. For these Egyptians, their rulers, the Pharaohs, represented stability and predictability. All features of life were cyclical, and as predictable as the annual rising of the Nile, which regularly brought growth and fertility to the land. Repetition was treasured.