Identifier: illustrationsofh00bush (find matches)
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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—also Edom shall be a desolation, &c. Of all the ruins of Petra, the mausoleums and sepulchresare among the most remarkable, and they give the clearestindication of ancient and long-continued royally, and ofcourtly grandeur. Their immense number corroboratesthe accounts given of their successive kings and princesby Moses and Strabo; though a period of eighteen hundredyears intervened between the dates of their respective rec-ords concerning them. The structure of the sepulchresalso shows that many of them are of a more recent date. Great, .says Burckhardt, must have been the opulenceof a city which could dedicate such monumenls to thememory of ils rulers. But the long line of the kings andof the nobles of Idumea has for ages been cut off; they arewithout any representative now, without any menrvorial butthe multitude and the magnificence of their unvi.sited sepul-chres. They shall call the nobles thereof to the kirgdom,(or rather, they shall call, or summon, the nobles thereof,)
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