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... give countenance to this pious fraud ? Thus the argument of Bochart is of no avail . The Phoenicians in the third century may have easily lost all traces of their origin ; nor were the Christians of that æra likely to occupy them ...
... give countenance to this pious fraud ? Thus the argument of Bochart is of no avail . The Phoenicians in the third century may have easily lost all traces of their origin ; nor were the Christians of that æra likely to occupy them ...
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... gives us no information upon this point ; and our business is with facts , and not with conjectures . The following passage occurs in the first chapter of the book of Judges : Aser quoque non delevit habitatores Accho , et Sidonis ...
... gives us no information upon this point ; and our business is with facts , and not with conjectures . The following passage occurs in the first chapter of the book of Judges : Aser quoque non delevit habitatores Accho , et Sidonis ...
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... give countenance to the pious fraud . This accusation appears to us to be totally unfounded . The authenticity of the Septuagint was admitted by all the ancient theologians of the Chris- tian world , with the exception of Jerom , by ...
... give countenance to the pious fraud . This accusation appears to us to be totally unfounded . The authenticity of the Septuagint was admitted by all the ancient theologians of the Chris- tian world , with the exception of Jerom , by ...
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... give the name of phoinir not only to the palm - tree , but also to the celebrated bird which was known by the same appellation ? Had the Tsidonians and Tyrians been descend- ants of Anak , they would most probably have been , at least ...
... give the name of phoinir not only to the palm - tree , but also to the celebrated bird which was known by the same appellation ? Had the Tsidonians and Tyrians been descend- ants of Anak , they would most probably have been , at least ...
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... gives its name . The mountains belonging to the chain of the Anti - Libanus are seen at the distance of about four leagues to the north ; and the prospect towards the east is terminated by the fruitful CHAP . III . ] 73 PHOENICIANS .
... gives its name . The mountains belonging to the chain of the Anti - Libanus are seen at the distance of about four leagues to the north ; and the prospect towards the east is terminated by the fruitful CHAP . III . ] 73 PHOENICIANS .
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Seite 122 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Seite 423 - Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Seite 67 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king : after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot. 16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten ; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
Seite 87 - Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon ; and my servants shall be with thy servants : and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint : for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians.
Seite 195 - Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? but ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
Seite 116 - Tyrian dye ; my guide also was an entire stranger to the object of my inquiries. The manner in which this beautiful purple was first discovered is thus related by the mythologists. '' As the nymph Tyros, who was beloved by Hercules, was walking on the shore, her dog broke a small shell with his teeth, and his mouth immediately became dyed with so brilliant a colour, that the nymph declared to her lover, that unless he could procure for her a robe of the same tint, she would see him no more. Hercules...
Seite 122 - ... feigned, that the river had received its crimson tint, not from the red earth washed down from the hills by the autumnal rains, but from the blood, which yearly flowed from the wound of the lamented Adonis. The season was felt by the children of Nature to be congenial with sorrow ; and they were pleased with a fiction, which fed and indulged, for the moment, the grief that they desired should be only transient. Thus the...
Seite 151 - ... 32. The accordance which exists between the general tenor of these passages and the Scripture account, is rendered still more remarkable by the following text from the Vedas, which is selected for special use in devotional exercises : — " The supreme Being alone existed ; afterward, there was a universal darkness ; next, the watery ocean was produced, by the diffusion of virtue...
Seite 95 - I cannot help thinking," says Mr. Drummond, " that the city, called Tsidon by the Hebrews, Tsaid or Tsaida by the Syrians, and Said or Saida by the Arabians, originally received its name from the language of the last. The Tsidonians were celebrated for their skill in metallurgy, and for the art with which they worked in gold, silver, and brass. Much iron and brass existed in Phoenicia ; and the possession of this country having been once intended for the tribe of Ashur, Moses said to that tribe,...
Seite 19 - Edom, et super quatuor non convertam eum, eo quod persecutus sit in gladio fratrem suum, et violaverit misericordiam...