A New System: Or, An Analysis of Antient Mythology ...J. Walker, 1807 - Folklore and history |
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... persons who came out of the Ark . Other writers express it Thamanim , which is a plural from Thaman . Terra Thamanim signifies the region of the eight persons , whose history needs no explanation . It is so rendered by Elmacini , who ...
... persons who came out of the Ark . Other writers express it Thamanim , which is a plural from Thaman . Terra Thamanim signifies the region of the eight persons , whose history needs no explanation . It is so rendered by Elmacini , who ...
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... persons who came out of the Ark , and built it . This is plain from the name ; for Cemainum signifies eight . They call the mountain the mother of the world . From hence we may perceive , that what this writer ren- ders Cemainum ...
... persons who came out of the Ark , and built it . This is plain from the name ; for Cemainum signifies eight . They call the mountain the mother of the world . From hence we may perceive , that what this writer ren- ders Cemainum ...
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... person of great impiety ; who finding that the earth had been divided among the sons of men by a divine de- cree , thought proper to counteract the ordinance of God , and to make a different distribution . This is often alluded to in ...
... person of great impiety ; who finding that the earth had been divided among the sons of men by a divine de- cree , thought proper to counteract the ordinance of God , and to make a different distribution . This is often alluded to in ...
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... Genesis . c . 11. v . 7 . 8 C. 11. v . 9 . ** By all the Grecian interpreters it is rendered συγχυσις ; which can never denote a change , but only a confusion . * 3 Upon this head , the person of all 40 THE ANALYSIS OF.
... Genesis . c . 11. v . 7 . 8 C. 11. v . 9 . ** By all the Grecian interpreters it is rendered συγχυσις ; which can never denote a change , but only a confusion . * 3 Upon this head , the person of all 40 THE ANALYSIS OF.
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... persons only who were confederate at Babel . His account is very parti- cular , and seems to agree precisely with the ... person of all others to be consulted is the very learned Monsieur Court de Gebelin , in his work , en- titled ...
... persons only who were confederate at Babel . His account is very parti- cular , and seems to agree precisely with the ... person of all others to be consulted is the very learned Monsieur Court de Gebelin , in his work , en- titled ...
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Abydenus Ægyptus æra Africanus afterwards Alexander Polyhistor alluded Amenophis Amosis antient Apollodorus apud Arabia Ararat Armenia Arrian Auritæ 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 Greeks Hellenes Hence Herodotus Hesiod Ibid Indus Israelites Josephus king land language learned Manethon mankind mentioned Mizraïm Moses nations Nimrod Oannes original Perieg person Præp princes Ptolemy region reign river Sacæ 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 ανθρωπων γαρ δε δι δια εις εκ εν ενθα εξ επι και κατα μεν ὁι παρα περι προς τας τε τες τοις ὑπο ὡς
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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.