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Show The fitBookeof thefirst partCuar.d3.§ Af en ee e Bit . my -taken for her: Cuar.8.§ 13." , Apames and Emefain Cafsiotis. Yet,indeed, Emath samcihe taken "e8 - : pap : X 7 : are: er et; re that Antioch vpon Orextes, and that which een eenns fect geted.And from Canaan,thaneuerany ofthofe Nations ftrag whereas S. Hicrome etteth Emath, which he confoundeth with Epiphania, in the Tribe of Nephrals; it is manifef, Laodices Prouinceof shath allthe that Epiphania,which ftandeth to the Noith : Coos Set of Emefa betweene it'and any part ofthe Land diuided.And if Libawonit felfewere notfhareda- Mount ly proued. ForJo/ve counting the lands that remained vnpofleft, reckonethall blew towards the Sunne-rifing, from Bas/gad vnder Mount Hermon,vyntil we cometo ot Humath. Andthis reafon(among others) is vfed, that Emath wasnotin Vephtalim, any way belonging tothechildren of//rael: becaufe Daud accepted the prefents of Te not hau 2Som.89. * bu King ofEmath , and (therewithall) conditions of peace : which hee would milesoff. Now, asthis coniecture was more than ridiculous, fo do I thinke,that neither the Sabzé on the Red Sea, nor thofetoward the Perfias Sea, could by any meanes ex cute the ftealth vpon/ob , whichfoeuer Berealdys {hall take for neereft. But thefe A gothe Sabei of Arabiathe Defart, where Guilandinus Melchior aifirmeth out of his owne experience,thatthe Citic Sabais feated: the fame whichPtolomie calls Sane, now Semifeafaccand fromthis Saba in Arabia the Defart, came thofe Magi or Wife men which wor thipped Chrift, faith Melchior , whole words arethele : TheMagi came neither out of"Me Sepotamia (as Chry[oftome, Hierome and Ambrofe {uppofed) norout ofArabia the Happie a5 many wife men doe beleewe, bat out ofSaba in Arabiathe Defart : which Citie sbi myRif done,if that Territory had euer belonged to the children of/rae/,but wouldhauerecoueredit without compofition,and byftrong hand,ashe did the reft. But this Argument (as take ityhath no great weight. Forifthe promife which God made,be confideredas Caparvas. tis written in Deaterenomy, then might Emath bee comprehended,thoughfeated alto: was there, was ( 45 Tindgedit )called Semifeafac. And to approue this opinion of Guilaz- gether without the boundsofthe Land promifed,according to the defcription ofMofes and Jofwa : for Emathis indeedefituate on the otherfide of the Mountaine of Hermon, which ioynethto Libanus: and is otherwifecalled Iturea. But whereas Hamathis tu medin Jofwa the 19.v.35.and written in the Latize conuerfion Emath , therein ( faith Beroaldus) was S.Hierome miftaken. Emath orItwreais that ouer the Mountaines, and dins,it appeareth that thefe Sabei were neighbours to /ob, and lay fit to. inuade and rob him. For boththe other Nations(as wellthofe on the Perfizm Sea, as thofe on the Red Sea) are {o dif-ioyned with large Defarts, as thereis na poifibilitie for ftrangers to paffe fC 1 Q 30 them, efpecially with any numbersofCattell, bothiaref,pect ofthe Mountaines, ofthe fands,and ofthe extreame wantof waterin thofe parts:/03nec homines, nec bei 2videws IieAE, im) nec arbres, nec gramen aliquod, fed non nifi montesSaxof alti(s ie afperimt,Woere there arefound neither men, nor beafts, no notfo much as birds or trees, nor 7 the City in epbtalim Should bewritten Hamath : and fo the Sepfuagint | vnderftanding pastare or graffe,but onelyfbarpe, ana high SHonie, and sraggie mountaines. "poualiae and oe the difference) write it Ammath and not Emath,the fame which indeede belonged totht rerius conceiue, that the Queene ofSaba which came to vifit Salomon, was of the Sabai Nephtalims, eated on the South fide of Litanus, to the Eaft of Affedim : whichCity s, on the Eaft fide of Arabi Felix; but the contrarie feemeth more probable and that fhe Hicrome writes Ewath ; loftpbus Hamah ; others, Emathin, or Amatheos,and the peopl ofHamath? was Hauila, Sabta, 30 . y theionnes of Raama were,< auoid tediouf{neffe, it is manifeft that Seba or Saba,Sabta,Raam ri - ete Sheba and Dedan,and Sabteca,wereall ahd peetions OFarcbisthetapey - nina onely Hawilah & Nimroddwelt together on the Eatt fide of Chufb,who held ei y2 Andthes ee ee ee ee by oe Prince or Nation. _ but 1 The fonnes of Chafb were Reama, Sabteca, Livimred, | fe ud Exion Gaber : and this Queene ofSaba whichinhabited the Weft part ofAra. 3 Senin > nee neighbour : might without any farre trauaile enterhis Territories, Ofthefounes ofChuth (excepting Nimrod,) ofwhem hereafter. (Seba, Queene of Saba towards the Red Sea: forSa/omen at that time commanding al thar vee of Arabia Petrea , twixt Idameaand the Red Sea, as farre downe as Midian Or. Mes ‘ ce ; : > * 5 sobs Catt! e, fhould runne that the sabei,whichftole away i £¢ al through awe . eeeaa cone Arabia Petred, and finde out /ob in Traconitis » betweene 200. 5: mong the Tribes, then could not Epiphawsa belong vato them : for both the Prouinces Laodicea and Libanica,are betweene Epiphania and any part ofthe holy Land : & there. fore Emath fotaken could not bea part ofNephrali.as in the thirteenth offo/wais diret- Cepr8.cr 19. Amathein;of which(as I takeit) Rabfakeh vaunteth in the fecond of Kings:where is thegud of the Fiftorie of the World. aE j ih. Seas and Maffabath neerethePerfiaw becaufe he remembreth a(Nation called stabei) : : \ apahe calls him) D&A siena i.Which defcended of them. But Mentanus hath {ent Regma,or(as to Carmania, for which Ifeeno reafon. Io/éphus, who onely attended his owne face> it fancies hath banifhed Saba or Seba to the border of Erhiosia. But Beroaldus thinkes for n etd: noe for Sabtathere is found of his name the Citie ofSebbaths or Sabota wihis ch 4 4 ia of which both Plinie and Ptolomie,who withall nameth Sabotale, Plin.t13, 0.14 f7 ete hew an Dedam s whereof there were fometimesfoundfixtie Temples. Ezekie/ioyneth #2! #46 een the Sonne together , The Merchants of Sheba and Raama werethy Mer- see 47.234 fone ane me na were the Eafterne Aratians,their merchandife witneffeth,former- _ ; ae : maprer ofParadife. For Jofephus his fancies,that Saba was the parent : Hoik That moft ofthefonnes ofChuth werefeated in Arabia the Happy: and of the Sabeans this renee lob; and ofthe Queewe that came te Salomon. : Ebaor Sabawas the eldeft fonne of Chufb, the'eldeft fonne of Ham , to make # thie any farther satea oo h eee > ahe Erhiepians Apabari a. they be ROEMOM preferuing the memoric of hieobiaks reee ae e . $79 = Ptolomies time, though in fomeletters changed. Asalfointhe coafts ilebalgatake oe of other of the brethren ofthe familie of Cufb » With little alrerations are stelee difference berweene Himand his Nephew sheba , the fonne of his brother 24% or Regma (or Regma after AMontanus:) his name is written with a fingle (5) * ee ipAaa the Defart is foundthe Citie Sabe or Same, ( now Semifca/ac ) with the ae Kheganator Rhegma; & the Nation by Prolemie himfelfecalled Raabeni ofRaa mech, and Shebathe fonne of Regma with an (S) afperate, which is the Hebrew Sé™™ Seba the eldeft fonne of Chafb, Regma his brother and Shebathe fonne of Regna,pole" both the fhores of4rabia Felix. Sabatooke that parttoward the Red Sea, as nectees ae In Arabis the Happie is found the Citie ofRhegama and Rabanwa; whichalfokeePhy rd found of Khegma, the Citic of Saptha or Saptah not farre from the Eaft-coaft of oeeee alfo the Mesrepalis and chiefe Citie inthe bodie ofthe South part ofArabia his Father Chufh > and the Land of the Chufites : Regmaand Shebathe Eat coatt 0 the os w ithout difference or alteration Sabatha;andto the Wet ofSabatha towards the fame Arabia, which looketh into the Gulfe of Perfia sof which Pliny : Sabsi Arse popali, propter thuraclarifsimi ad vtrag, maria porretlis centibns habitant The Sabcans pt G o<athe great Citie of Saba; andthe Nation adioyning , Sabai : and tothe South §4ine towardthe ftreight entrance ofthe Red Sea, the Region ofSebe. Toall ple of Arabia,famousfor their Frankincesfe,extending their. Nations dwell along bath Seas » (to wit) the Perfiaw,and the Arabian, or Red Sea. This Countrey was afterwal® oe called Arabia, a nopuli mixtione, faith Poftellas. To this agreeth Ptolomy, who ferreth the City of Saba towards the Arabian or Red Sea, and the City Rhegema towards the peri with whomialfo we may Icaue Sabra: for {o much Montanas gathereth out of zaree Ca is Br others and Nephewes which werefeated on the Eaft fide ofArabia, Hauilah Pa ageOf Tigris wasa neighbour , to whom hee might paffe by Boate cuehynta th yi es or of att, or Rhegma, fet acere the River of Lar towards themouth of 4a34, which ftood in Pro/omies time. Hy . rH, |