Shinar, the Scripture record of the confusion of language and the dispersion verified by modern discovery, a lecture |
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... Creation is reconcilable with the established facts of geology ; and that geology not only establishes the truth of the first page of the Bible , but that it furnishes the most direct and sensible evidence of the fact of Divine ...
... Creation is reconcilable with the established facts of geology ; and that geology not only establishes the truth of the first page of the Bible , but that it furnishes the most direct and sensible evidence of the fact of Divine ...
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... creation of the world and its inhabitants . The science of geology instructs us as to the mode in which our globe was formed , and the order in which its vegetable and animal organisms came into existence . When the science was in its ...
... creation of the world and its inhabitants . The science of geology instructs us as to the mode in which our globe was formed , and the order in which its vegetable and animal organisms came into existence . When the science was in its ...
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... creation within its sphere , unless so far as some may have been preserved by human exertion . Besides , it is manifestly impossible that every known species of terrestrial animal could have been congregated from arctic and tropical ...
... creation within its sphere , unless so far as some may have been preserved by human exertion . Besides , it is manifestly impossible that every known species of terrestrial animal could have been congregated from arctic and tropical ...
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... Creation and the Flood . I allude to the confusion of tongues and the dispersion at Babel , which is about to engage our attention . After the waters had swept over the abode of Adam's race , it became the mission of Noah's family ...
... Creation and the Flood . I allude to the confusion of tongues and the dispersion at Babel , which is about to engage our attention . After the waters had swept over the abode of Adam's race , it became the mission of Noah's family ...
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... creation , so it was partial in the destruction of the human race . There is nothing in the Hebrew text of the Bible , when critically examined and translated , that is inconsistent with this state of things ; for the considerations ...
... creation , so it was partial in the destruction of the human race . There is nothing in the Hebrew text of the Bible , when critically examined and translated , that is inconsistent with this state of things ; for the considerations ...
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abode Abraham Accad Adding these numbers ancestors ancient records Armenia Aryan or Japhetic Asia Asshur Assyrians authenticated B.C. Adding Babel Babylonia Berosus Bible Black Sea blessing Brahmans brethren bricks Calneh Canaan capacity to extend Caspian Gates Celt Celtic century Chaldĉan dynasty chapter of Genesis cities civilised world common descendants of Shem dispersion early East eastward Egypt Erech Europe European event evidence existence Exodus families of Shem father Noah forefathers geology grammar Greece Greek guages Hamitic Hamitic kingdom Hebrew Hellenes highlands of Armenia Hindoos Hindostan Holy Writ human India inhabitants Israelite Japhet Japhetite Japhetite emigrants Latin literature Lord mankind Mesopotamia Mosaic record Moses Nimrod Nineveh northern shores Pelasgi Persia philologists plains of Shinar present hour preserved primeval religion Sanskrit language scriptions Scripture date Scripture record Semitic language Semitic races Shem and Japhet Shinar sons of Japhet sons of Shem tenth chapter testimony Teuton traditions truth Urukh Vedas
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Page 18 - 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 9 - And 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 19 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 17 - All sacrifices do but speed forward that great day, when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.
Page 25 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all...
Page 15 - I shall select two remarkable circumstances of a less equivocal nature. 1. The great rivers which covered the Roman provinces, the Rhine and the Danube, were frequently frozen over, and capable of supporting the most enormous weights. The barbarians, who often chose that severe season for their inroads, transported, without apprehension or danger, their numerous armies, their cavalry, and their heavy wagons, over a vast and solid bridge of ice.
Page 19 - Canaan ; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem ; and Ham the father of Canaan shall be servant to them.
Page 2 - Author in this work is to show that the Mosaic narrative of the Creation is reconcilable with the established facts of geology ; and that geology not only establishes the truth of the first page of the Bible, but that it furnishes the most direct and sensible evidence of the fact of Divine inspiration, and thereby authenticates the whole canon of Scripture. The Word of God is thus authenticated by His works.
Page 2 - Dr. M'Causland is an eminent geologist and an orthodox Christian, and in this work he endeavours to harmonise the statements of Science and of Revelation. He heartily accepts the recent discoveries of a pre-Adamite mankind...
Page 30 - ... distinct in these two families of speech. This does not exclude, however, the possibility that both are diverging streams of the same source; and the comparisons that have been instituted between the Semitic roots, reduced to their simplest form, and the roots of the Aryan languages, have made it more than probable that the material elements with which they both started were originally the same.