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Notes, critical and practical, on the book of Genesis; designed as a general help to Biblical reading and instruction Volume 1 - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ...the emigrants must have arrived, soon er or later, on the banks of one of these two rivers, and they would naturally have followed its course downwards, until they reached the point of their adopted residence. That it was not the Araxes on whose banks the company arrived is clear, the course of that river being not from the east but from the west; so that by following its stream, they would have been led, not into a plain, but into the mountainous country of Azerbijan, and ere long to the banks of the Caspian. It would seem therefore that the Noachidae could not have done otherwise than reach the banks of the Euphrates, and follow the course of that river downwards; and one has only to look at a map oi Asia to see that the direction of the Euphrates, that is, of its eastern branch the Morad, or eastern Phrat, is for a great distance almost directly 'from the east,' from its source to the point where it turns abruptly to the southward; whence passing through a break in the chain of Mount Maurus, it pours its waters into the plains of Mesopotamia. Viewed in this light the historian's words are perfectly reconciled with geographical verity, even though it be admitted that the sojourners afterwards turned, with the course of the river, to 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us maie brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they the south-mat. Now the Agridagh before mentioned, ch. 8. 4, as is well known, stands in the valley of the Araxes; and is further cut off from all communication with the Euphrates, by an intermediate chain of mountains, and also by a tributary of the former river. Its claims, therefore, to the honour of being regarded as the place where the ark rested after the flood are far inferior to those of some elevation within the...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 123648097X
- ISBN 13 9781236480972
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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