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Title: Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures, derived principally from the manners, customs, rites, traditions and works of art and literature, of the eastern nations : embodying all that is valuable in the works of Harmer, Burder, Paxton, and Roberts, and the most celebrated oriental travellers
Year: 1839 (1830s)
Authors: Bush, George, 1796-1859
Subjects: Bible Bible
Publisher: Brattleboro', Vt. : Brattleboro' typographic company
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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Christ, His blood be onus, and on our children. Then was the malefactor led toexecution, and none were allowed openly to lament hismisfortune. His hands were secured with cords, and hisfeet with fetters ; a custom which furnished David with anatfecting allusion, in his lamentation over the dust of Abner: Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put in fetters.—Paxton. CHAPTER III. Ver. 1. And unto the angel of tlie church in Sar-dis write; These things saith he that hath theseven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: Iknow thy works, that thou hast a name, thatthou livest, and art dead. Sardis, or Sardes, the capital of the country of Lydia, inAsia, was a city of great antiquity, the founder of which isnot certainly known. It was situated in a fertile plain, atthe foot of the northern slope of Mount Tmolus; whichrears its majestic headinthe backeround of our engraving,and commands an extensive view over the circumjacent coun-try. The river Pactolus, (now an insignificant brook,) which
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Chap. 3. REVELATION. 645 is also seen in our view, flowed through the forum. To ihesouth of the plain, on which Sardis was erected, stood thetemple of Cybele, the fabled mother of the gods, accordingto pagan mj-thology: it was a very ancient and magnificentedifice, con.structed of white marble. Of this temple tlietwo noble columns which are delineated in the foregroundof our engraving, together with a few mutilated fragmentsof other columns scattered on the sward or sunk in it, areall that now remain : these columns are buried nearly to thehalf of their height in the .soil, which has accumulated in thevalley since their erection, most probably by the destructionof the continually crumbling eminence, on which stoodthe acropolis or citadel. The columns which have beendestroyed have been blown up by gunpowder, reduced toblocks, and sold to masons and cutters of tombstones: andas other materials are wanted, the two columns which areyet standing in all probability will be blasted in the sa

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