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Show ian: Tianna acatans atta. Thefife Bookeofthefir(part ze Say ad ‘5 rracher, oat of the Ile 0 Cuap.2.9§.1 on, which lyeth ia the River 1 igris And oa fecond Pie seehetimad aeaccra vfethefe vvords : No aperfunt apuanos Metropolite, quorum cft ordinare Catholicnm's feafali phisees mee Wie vane le, Epi[copus Salvsaste; Epifcopus Adurbeigan;en e ueftigie paBANE. nwa aoa tra Tiaritaflumen, Eden, fecininfg, compachum waker " ed aa x \ 2 is ) io vanes there remaining ameng Us any Metroporstan By pops, to wy ve as Sia em ernest i am arch, but onely afew Bifbops, asthe Bifloop of Arbelay the nulbouche and is eae of Adurbeigan :but lo, wealfembled/peedily in the Mand Eden, which is in Tigris,and agreed bea tweene ourfelues, Oe» ; j s ee oe Nowthis Iland ofEden Mafas defcribeth with other places ; w hich being well cot ceiued, the Neflorian Epiftles , and the ftate of the Church may bein thofe parts he) the better vnderftood. Andafterhe! ath diftinguifhedthe foure forts of chriftian in thofe parts of the World, and inthe Southpart of Africa, which heecalleth Nestoviazs, lacobites, Maronite,and Cophti,he goeth onin thefe vvords: Azox andita Mise concurriffe aicbant tumultuarso in illam quam mod dixi Tigrits Lnfislam , que d; civciterpaffaum millibusfupra Atofalpofita > deceimfere millia paffunm fio ambity continet, warts vndig, cintia, & A paucns alys quam Chrifliants hominibus habitata + which Is , Now hearing of the death ofthe Patriarch, (as thofe that cameto Rome reported) they ranetite multuoufly together iatothat lland ofTigres or Eden before fpokex of , which Tard is fitaated about twelve miles aboue Mofel , containing vexymeereten miles ix compalfe, and encrie where inuironed with a wall, inhabited by afewother men than Chriftians. And afterward? he maketharecapitulation ofthe Chriftian Churches ; among thereft hee addeththe Le ofEden by thename of Geferte , Infula Tigris:fine Geferta. Furthermore, defcribing the Citie of Hofaz-cepha , or Fortis Petra, he placeth it /upra predictans Tigris lafulam rupi afpere impofitam, Aboue the aforefaid ilandof Tigris, beingSeated on 2 fleepe Rocker Of this land of Geferta, Andrew Thenet maketh mentionin his tenth Booke of his genevall Cofinographie in thefewords: Geferta ou Gefire ojt au milters de la Réutere du Tigre, C penfe que c'eft une terredes plus fiertiles de toute LAfies, Geferta or Gefire 2 in the middle of Tigris, the Soylethe moft fertile of all Afia, Bythis wefee thatthe ancient name of Eden liueth;.and of that Eder which lyeth Faftward from-Arabia Petra, and the Defert where Mofes wrote, and that Edex which? bordereth Charrax according to Ezechiel; andthat Edex whichis feated according theaffertion ofthe faid Prophet,and ioynedwith thofe Nations of Re/eph, Cazneh, to and Charran,and thereftwhich traded with the Tyrians,and is foundat this dayin the parting ofthe two Regions of Afjriaand Babylonia » Where the Edezites in Thelaffar were gatrifond torefifttthe 4/77 tens, whofe difplantation Senacherib vaunted of (as aboue written; )and laftly, the fame Eden , which‘embraceth Tigris , and looketh on Esphrefes, twoof the knowneRiuets of thofe foure,which are byall men afcribedto Paradife. §. XI. nis tee [ : ieultici# the Text , which Secmeth to make the foure Rixers to rife fromont JSireame. i Vt itimaybe obiected , that iris written in the Text, That a Riner wentont ofEdem, Rat _aaiweredin-his 55 inthe pluralls which {cruple Matthew Beroald uas-hath thus Chronologie : The Latine Tranfl ation y faith hec, hath thele Words: Ef finsius egrediebaturde loco oluptatis ad irrigardum Paradifip 5 Gai inde ¢ acvatur tz quate or 2 sie, "ha: het ¢ a melins confentient cum rei warratione, Pr expiCatione , fiitatcddantur Et flanins erat egrediens ex Edene, ( boc eff) flr ' Aa riganasm powarium. cy inde diuidebatur > ODera > nd a River went out of the place ofpleafuretowater Pe eve heads : Which words ( faith Beroalaus) doe b narration and explication of the place , ifthey bethustranflated :-, 'Mme forty of Eaca'( ligt 6 4 Riwers went forth and ranout ofthe ke 402 6; Oreberd s and from thence it wizs aiuided . and they became foure heads, ating} foritconuertsit thus : EF funiysec Ana 4 Riser weut out-of pleafire in fead of Edex 3 andthe Latine; ‘ 7 és» Orsplace, ; Et, edink eae (gred itbatur deloce wernp ‘ hatis; Auda ! ofl Hikosof te Worlds ¢:and fo the word(place) may righ tly bereferred ta Fx en,which was (ofall )a Region moft delightful andfertile ; and foalfo the word (ézde) and thence_s was diuided, hath reference to the Countrey. of Eden,and notto the Gard enir felfe. And forthe word (Riser) for Riuers, it is vfuall among the Hebrewes: for itis writ ten: Let the Earth bud forth thebud of the Herbe that feed eth Seede ; the fruitful Tree, oc. Hereth e Hebrewvfeth the Singularforthe Plurall, Herbeand Tree', For Herbs and Trées and againe;We'eateofthe fruit‘ofthe Tree ,in ftead-of(‘Trees:) And thirdly, The man andhis wife bid themfelues fram the prefence of God; In medio ligni Paradifis In thes middle of the Tree of the Garden, for(Trees.) Ando fthis Opittion is Danid' Kimchi, and 10 Vatablas, who vponthis place of Genefis fay, that the Heb rewesdoe Often put the Sifi: gular for the Plurall-asad, for vnum guodd, tHorum, and hee giueth an inft ance in this on it felfe;as, A River (for Riuers) went out of Eden: anfwerout of diners of the Learned; may, not with out goodreafon, bee tothe obiection, That mo/esfpeakethbut of one Rive r! from whieh the heads uld diuide themfelues. Howbeit'T deny noty but with as good (and perhaps better) fon, weemayexpouitdthe foure heads to bee foure nota ble paflages‘into: famoiis id fo we maytake the word (RiueryVerfe the tenth for one R iuer(to wit) iphrates,as this name ¢omprehendeth all the branches theveof. Forthis Riuer, (after tthe place, where'we fuppofeParadife to hané bin;divi des ir felfeand ere long eth fourenotable'paflages into feuerall Counties, thoust not alithe way downe mey\ (forthis is no wherein thé Text) whereit is noted, that following the Riuer ow eintothe Countri¢s namedin'the Text) though part of (to Wit, to Affyria): were vp Tigris. ; xt {peaking of Hiddekel, as it rifeth fromthe Rivet of Eden ; doth y-te, compaffeth or wafheth'the whole Region. of Affy iia, (as'it' had' vfed this fe of Pifon an har -hon) but that it runneth toward Affyria. The firtt bran ch Pifon, interpretation) Bafilius ; or flumen regiam, whie h runneth into s whence ariféch the nambof Paff-tigrés, (asic Were ) Pifo-tigris, nd of Hauil#orSufiana, Thefecondbranch \Gchon,i fares or Narragas;for Nahar-racas sboth-which tamsthat which es fignifie tRiterderiue d,) alfo eracanus, guafi Ranofis:, by reafon ofthe which itmaketh: this Gchon leadeth to thefirtt feat e 6£ Chus', about Haldwaand Arabia,and itis loft at length in the Lakes ! of Chaldga. Hiddekel, maybe exp. munded the vppei ftreame ofPifon, orBafilins, cel, properly focalled (that is , into Tigr is) aboueSeleucia, is'into Affyria: where, becaufeat lengthit is called eno knowne proper name, the Text in rhis place cal uphrates\which runneth through Babylon and 1S; that coment of Eden,fe i eing that Tigtis and Eutécan bec no:doubr, burthat Paradife was not fare in Adofes is Euphrates, theré can be no queftion; and kelis J igris. Por Hiddeke bg seth (faith Azo, (S$) Eaft. find, that Tigris isthe River of A/pria propric ditta, whofe in Genefis the tenth ¥eis written : That out of that Land (to Vienroa went into Affix: , and builded Ni neue', which'was the chiefe {peaking offoure heads; though yet heré are'they to'be vnderftood, liffon from the fir ftreame. ¢ apt aque (faith ; fiex foute wafcztur, foms, i ex flumine, vel ex ning of the watir bee but of « Pountsine, then is thes of a Lake, then the Lake ;andif from<a maine River then where that branch doth firft bound it felfe where the btanch forfakeththe maine §. XIT, Gen.t.ir, 3+ 2 Qi %" |