A New System: Or, An Analysis of Antient Mythology ...J. Walker, 1807 - Folklore and history |
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... shew how universal the history was of that great event , of which I have been treating . The scene of action was attribu- ted to different places ; but the real appulse of the ark was upon the mountain of Arat , called Ar - arat , in ...
... shew how universal the history was of that great event , of which I have been treating . The scene of action was attribu- ted to different places ; but the real appulse of the ark was upon the mountain of Arat , called Ar - arat , in ...
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... shew thee ; thy elders , and they will tell thee . When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance ; when he separated the sons of Adam ; he set the bounds of the people , according to the number of the children of Israel ...
... shew thee ; thy elders , and they will tell thee . When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance ; when he separated the sons of Adam ; he set the bounds of the people , according to the number of the children of Israel ...
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... shew , that the general migration was not only prior , but from another part of the world . The βασιλειαν Βαβυλωνος μετα τον κατακλυσμον ή θεία γραφή ανατίθησι , Chron . Paschale . p . 28. Nimrod was styled Qrion , and Alorus by the ...
... shew , that the general migration was not only prior , but from another part of the world . The βασιλειαν Βαβυλωνος μετα τον κατακλυσμον ή θεία γραφή ανατίθησι , Chron . Paschale . p . 28. Nimrod was styled Qrion , and Alorus by the ...
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... shew , that these transactions were after the general migration ; for he was in possession of the province allotted to him , till he was ejected by this lawless people . In the beginning of this history it is said , that they journeyed ...
... shew , that these transactions were after the general migration ; for he was in possession of the province allotted to him , till he was ejected by this lawless people . In the beginning of this history it is said , that they journeyed ...
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... shew , that they were once dialects from the same matrix ; and that their variety was the effect of time . If we may trust to an Ethnic writer , the evidence of Eupolemus is decisive ; for he speaks of the dispersion as a partial judg ...
... shew , that they were once dialects from the same matrix ; and that their variety was the effect of time . If we may trust to an Ethnic writer , the evidence of Eupolemus is decisive ; for he speaks of the dispersion as a partial judg ...
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Abydenus Ægyptus æra Africanus afterwards ages Alexander Polyhistor alluded Amenophis Amosis antient Apollodorus apud Arabia Ararat Armenia Arrian Babel Babylon Babylonia Bacchus Belus Berosus Bochart called Canaan Chaldea Chron Colchis consequence Cronus Cutha Cuthites Deity deluge Diodorus Dionys dispersion dynasty earth Egypt Egyptians Erythrean Ethiopians Euseb Eusebius Gods Grecians Greece Greeks Hellenes Hence Herodotus Hesiod Ibid Indus Israelites Josephus king land language learned Manethon mankind mentioned mistake Mizraim Moses mountain nations natives Nimrod Oannes original Perieg person Præp princes Ptolemy region reign river sacred says Scythia Sethon Shepherds shew shewn Shinar signified sons of Chus speaks Strabo styled supposed Syncell Syncellus takes notice term Tigris tion Titanian Titans tower whence worship writers γαρ δε δια εις εκ εν Ενθα εξ επι και κατα μεν παρα περι προς τας τε τες τοις ύπο Χαμ
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Page 24 - And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
Page 24 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 38 - These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Page 341 - Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Page 18 - By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Page 24 - And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Page 83 - And Cush begat Nimrod : he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Page 284 - And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Page 36 - And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
Page 24 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth : and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.