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Show Set . 4 a 2 : a _— é ’ q : \ “ 4 e Mi] i . ey §} a I ay ) j i STAT E PRES ENT THE | # hints his verse. God aie space. intermedial ; €e > : prehensis ets good themas alamo in a large f : trem part 0 capacious io feedq large are Fy Ci 01 d would - i . ° 1 AA ou ee ? 4 the wortalt eeivcr ye iv ould by and - them -ypon {ter re have his empire, : “ Wj wild be are, Scot SCOL enpnoses SVP; ere PO WW we Ass re . hay ing Jowas *Y | TO , wild rnecss “| a ‘ ic] describe + wilderness ris i ' ONS I , aa : : “4 : «if it 9 nt been 2 ; : 1h48 a le Tia ; © , tbe miu llilys : 5 : 1G VW tryoes Lt i) C t porn writer *t ; pne e 7 Wii cil 3 ‘<ie oi land, , owt their vs " AT Cal maneZe:s he ' tof «od a cA . AD, : Xhile mi a emort,y a Tii' nnsel ; ; COU : u the of he cary ° tives 1 anothet away into unt “ hey xe ,e tthey ene Ea ee cap the © ' and them OVS Se fe ech they ng ti an But pl p yads5 “¢ ; liere is :the ' : Viedia. bt) : (hits 0 5 wars ten erat 2d king, ihe waters, _ ) a prisoner ficou. Aen, oe 5ie giAe vento givel dr 8 CA LA as Mo id sho re ' way a (he in . ju. pha ; 1 sfatede ;; UR) | t : : : ‘ c selves, . >’ * 3 that t, Yay trey . AY - oR ane vogo tort heathen,atand pe TL ; = Lie& iwa@* writer says, world, and banish themselves, ina land where i, C= I: ss > > 44} LEI OF ripe Knocry . : LiVb. W———» fter theif s.a 1aeda5 the . Ire Ans res Lhe h ’ */ EB yh- s This the Euphrates by the narrow He must mean, they repassed the rest of the idolatrous ss a . Es with : } 3) O1 rds; ‘7 we] | [ space agamsl ; still. oun Aw lamb > rected y him a keep } ‘ <6Vice a : | . them eventually ‘ovision for provi a would ‘ ‘od vel » long outcast sequestered the of Se : ¥ ; north-east. Though this chapter in Esdras be a kind of prophecy, in which we-place not confidence ; yet the ailusion to facts learned by the author, no doubt may be correct. And this seems just such an event as might be expected, had God indeed determined to separate them from DE wild Ol or them off north-east of the Ararat, which he meutions. aese as pis e ca . Libem .o th How 3 eee a ve ; . US AS 1c TI goingwr ; oac. a north, toward Georgia; and hence must have taken their ‘Thisset course between the Black and Caspian seas. . x t gi | es the; tex to him, the te t™ accoraihe But ihey 1s fact ‘The ride 5 not aré to the Their journey then, Palestine. this river in its upper regions, or small streams, away sf MIS) y . . Ley os1 carried from «“ They entered into passages of the river.”? Not sts.”’ 4 in ; was geservcc single « as to te hey when dogs as e injury and rve wil WU derness : . would| ya BY they here where od ” But Ararat, or Armeina, lay unknown by any name. northof the place where the ten tribes were planted | Q "| 64 are ' violence, lég the upon er obstinate rebellion 3) ach ut a. ugho thro thi them ese disp to isperse their noting fore sntended | eyriali ieee Bi pat: FC ; spect Seott =) ee a i eee seal a atnt pA. ) }pis as —. << < rrOVIGE ea 7 %, : > i> must allude here to the region to which they directed their course to go this yearand a half’s journey. This place where no man dwelt, must of course have been He would pro’ ’ ~on them distinct by themrovidential m, me KECp toe Ci place. Hew th " é = ‘The writer proceeds to speak of the name of f half.’ He the region being calied Arsareth, or Ararat. rprecte o being long PEPECLER, NOW alagé.e feet . 7 vem ara asalamo med | let atone, and this com-4y eal rem in SeyEco bg : e mine tra" Now will the Lord ence 5 ¥ ta ) ; . AG i. farther country, where néver man dweit ; that they might there keep their statutes which they never kept (i.e. uniformly as they ought,) in their own land.— There was a great way to go, namely, ofa year and a jong ihis in people this~ of care Are V9 7 ISRAEL. ARO OF PRA 7 t} no man dwelt since y 2 them by. ‘ the \ sa . flood. But if these tribes took counsel to go to a land ~ where no. man dweit, as they naturally would do, they certainly could not have taken counsel to go into Hindostan, or any of the old and long crowded nations of Asia. Such a. place they would naturally have avoided. And to such a place the God of Isracl would not have led them, to keep them in an outcast state, distinct from ail other nations, as his lamb in a large wilderness. pf, : <— 4, Let several suppositiéns now be made. SuerR- Ye x | : SE t d lately been discov pose au extensive continen ba ed, away north-east from Media, and at the distance of “a year and a half’s journey ;” a place probably destitate of : inhabitants, » since the flood, 5 till theic time a Shi Ul time of the “casting out” of Israel. , Suppose a people to e I de Es < } > |