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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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r an irresistible argument. The fale of one city isnot (mly distinguished from that of another ; but the variedaspect of Ihe country- itself, the dwellings and cottages forshepherds in one part, and that very regicm named, the restof the land destroyed and uninhabited, a desert, and aban-doned to Ihe flocksof ihe wandering Arabs; Gaza, bereavedof a king, a defenceless village, desliluic of all iis forli/iea-lions; Ashkelon, a desolation, and without an inhabitant;the inhabitant.s also cut off from Ashdod, as reptiles tenant-ed it instead of men—form in each instance a specific pre-diction, and a recorded fact, and present such a view ol theexisting state of Philistia as reniiers it dilhcult todelerminc,from Ihe strictest accordance that prevails between both,whether the inspired penman or Ihe defamer of scripturegive the more vivid descripliim. Nor is there any ob-scu-rity whatever in any one of Ihe eircum.slances, or in anypart of Ihe proof. The coincidence is loo glaring, even for
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Chap. 48. JEREMIAH. 505 wilful blindness not to discern; and to all ihe lca.st versedin general history the priority of the predictions to theeveuis is equally obvious. And such was the natural fertilityof the country, and such was the strength and celebrity ofthe cities, that no conjecture possessing the least shadow ofplausibility can be formed in what manner any of theseevents coiild possibly have been thought of, even for manycenturies after the vision and prophecy were sealed. Afterthat period Gaza defied the power of Alexander the Great,and withstood for two months a hard-pressed siege. Thearmy with which he soon afterward overthrew the Persianempire having there, as well as at Tyre, been checked ordelayed in the first flush of conquest, and he himself havingbeen twice wounded in desperate attempts to storm the city,the proud and enraged kmg of Macedon, with all thecruelty of a brutish heart, and boasting of himself as asecond Achilles, dragged at his chariot-wheels the intrepid

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