Shinar, the Scripture record of the confusion of language and the dispersion verified by modern discovery, a lecture |
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... period of six natural days . The Bible was supposed to have stated such to be the fact , and few believers conceived that there could be any doubt upon the subject . The first chapter of Genesis treats . of the creation of the world and ...
... period of six natural days . The Bible was supposed to have stated such to be the fact , and few believers conceived that there could be any doubt upon the subject . The first chapter of Genesis treats . of the creation of the world and ...
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... period of time , and not a mere natural day of twenty - four hours . And accordingly , there being abundant evidence within the pages of the Bible that the Hebrew word may be so understood , few persons of enlightened understand- ing ...
... period of time , and not a mere natural day of twenty - four hours . And accordingly , there being abundant evidence within the pages of the Bible that the Hebrew word may be so understood , few persons of enlightened understand- ing ...
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... period of time , destructive of course to all the animal 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 ...
... period of time , destructive of course to all the animal 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 ...
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... period of the Chaldæan empire the Shemites gained ascendancy ; and that ultimately , about 1500 B.C. , ancient Chaldæa sank under Assyrian and Arabian influences , and became semitised . The Hamitic lan- guage fell into disuse , and the ...
... period of the Chaldæan empire the Shemites gained ascendancy ; and that ultimately , about 1500 B.C. , ancient Chaldæa sank under Assyrian and Arabian influences , and became semitised . The Hamitic lan- guage fell into disuse , and the ...
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... period of great revolution and progress . While the Israelite was entering Canaan , the Hellenes were advancing into Greece , and the Aryan Brahmans into Hindostan . The Hellenes expelled the Pelasgi , and were at first given entirely ...
... period of great revolution and progress . While the Israelite was entering Canaan , the Hellenes were advancing into Greece , and the Aryan Brahmans into Hindostan . The Hellenes expelled the Pelasgi , and were at first given entirely ...
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abode Abraham Accad Almighty ancestors Armenia Aryan Aryan or Japhetic Asia Asshur Assyrian authenticated Babel Babylon Babylon and Nineveh Babylonia Berosus Bible blessing Brahmans brethren bricks Calneh Canaan Caucasian race Celt Celtic Chaldæan chapter of Genesis cities civilised world common countries descendants of Noah descendants of Shem dispersion early earth East Egypt eleventh chapter enlarged Erech Euphrates Europe European event existence families of Shem father Noah flood forefathers geology grammar Greece Greek guages Hamitic kingdom Hindoo Hindostan Holy Writ human India inhabitants inscriptions Japhetic family Japhetite Japhetite emigrants Latin Lord mankind Max Müller Mesopotamia Mosaic Mosaic record Moses Nimrod Nineveh Noah's family Pelasgi Persia Persian philologist plains of Shinar present hour preserved primeval religion Sanskrit language science of language Scripture record Semitic language Semitic race separation Shem and Japhet sons of Japhet sons of Shem tenth chapter testimony Teuton three tribes Tigris tion west of Shinar
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Page 28 - 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 29 - 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 27 - 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 35 - 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 25 - 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 29 - 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 40 - ... 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.