A New System: Or, An Analysis of Antient Mythology ...J. Walker, 1807 |
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... Josephus tells us expressly , that it was called by the natives the Mountain of Descent , which he translates arrobarngior , on account of the Patriarch here first descending from the ark . * Αποβατηριον τοπον τετον Αρμένιοι καλεσιν ...
... Josephus tells us expressly , that it was called by the natives the Mountain of Descent , which he translates arrobarngior , on account of the Patriarch here first descending from the ark . * Αποβατηριον τοπον τετον Αρμένιοι καλεσιν ...
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... Josephus takes notice , and says , that by the natives it was called anobarngiov , or the place of " descent . In the map of D'Anville it is ex- pressed 33 Nactshevan ; and placed at the distance of a few miles to the east of Mount ...
... Josephus takes notice , and says , that by the natives it was called anobarngiov , or the place of " descent . In the map of D'Anville it is ex- pressed 33 Nactshevan ; and placed at the distance of a few miles to the east of Mount ...
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... Josephus , by the word Babel denote confusion of speech , These terms seem ever afterwards to have been retained , even by the natives , in confirmation of this extraordinary history : and the city , as long as it existed , was called ...
... Josephus , by the word Babel denote confusion of speech , These terms seem ever afterwards to have been retained , even by the natives , in confirmation of this extraordinary history : and the city , as long as it existed , was called ...
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... Josephus ; who tells us , from several evidences in antient history , that the tower of Babel was overthrown by whirl- winds , and that a confusion of speech ensued . είναι το ουρανό , και τις ανέμους Θεοισι βωθέοντας ανατρέψαι περι ...
... Josephus ; who tells us , from several evidences in antient history , that the tower of Babel was overthrown by whirl- winds , and that a confusion of speech ensued . είναι το ουρανό , και τις ανέμους Θεοισι βωθέοντας ανατρέψαι περι ...
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... Josephus moreover introduces this passage as if Hestiæus had been speaking wię τα πεδία λεγόμενο Σενααρ , about the country called Senaar . But this too is certainly a mistake , as may be seen from the words of the author . He is not ...
... Josephus moreover introduces this passage as if Hestiæus had been speaking wię τα πεδία λεγόμενο Σενααρ , about the country called Senaar . But this too is certainly a mistake , as may be seen from the words of the author . He is not ...
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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 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 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 δι δια εις εκ εν Ενθα εξ επι και κατα μεν παρα περι προς τας τε τες τοις ύπο
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Page 25 - 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 - 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.
Page 21 - 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 36 - 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 18 - 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.
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 39 - And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor : and they served other gods.
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 114 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 379 - That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.