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    J 98 Paulus * N ' ew Version of Zech . ix—jc . i «

    Zech . Ix * l . For to Jehovah doth Idumea lctok , As well as all the tribes of the land of Israeli 2 * Chamath also shall form its boundary—Tyre itself and Sidon ; For it is become very wise *

    taken together , and mean , Jehovah ' s 'word shall prevail in Israel . Tn 0 following words express a hope that the jurisdiction of the Israelites * that is , of Jehovah , should extend over the neighbouring states . This took place under the prosperous reign of the Maccabees , when Jeho-Tali ( see v . 14 . ) l roused thy sons , O Zion , &gaimt thine , O Javan ! * Jauan can be understood here only of the Grecian empire , ( Dan rai . 21 . ) as far as Palestine was affected by the authority of the Greeks in Syria and Egypt , after Alexander ' s death . More on this lead at the end of the translation . fllfVlin , understand . 7 WV ; £ S ~ w —scg r . yt \ v A < 5 f a ;^ m < 5 a . -pin V *** ** 5 the territory of Chadrach * R . Jose , a native of Damascus , has observed , after R . Salomo and

    IX Kimchi , that Hadrach was in the neighbourhood of that town , According to Theodoret , himself a Syrian , A < 5 |> a % was ifoXiS- Agaftuzs ; ( Arabia borders on Damascus ) ; and Joseph Abossi , quoted by John I ) . Michadis Supp . ad Lex . Heb . p . 677 > assures us that the name of "ptrr is still given , in Arabic , to the remains of the once flourishing town in the desert of Arabia , about 10 miles from Damascus—pltffoii

    understand rvnn , ffw , shall be or become ^ nn ! tD > his ( Jehovah's ) kocIoc fawnsj place of abode . Heb . iv . 3 . Ps . xcv . 11 . — " =-Not EHi * &s it is » T pointed , but O * TK - The connection restrains the prophet ' s mean- * ing to the states bordering on Palestine , and not the human race at large . The Idumeans , in particular , were subdued by HyrcanusX

    and compelled to submit to circumcision , and consequently to the whole of Judaism i an unforeseen consequence of which was , that the sceptre of Israel neither remained with the Maccabees , who were of the tribe of Levi , nor reverted to David ' s descendants , but passed into the Idumcan family of Herod ; so that , in the course of time , this forced adoption of Judaism by the Idumeans was - the means of

    making-the Jews subject to them . H ) n > b CDlKfy , understand nriTl . c The eye of Idumea is even noic turned towards Jehovah \ i . e . the u Idumeans have been forcibly converted to Judaism /' V . 2 . non , probably Epiphania , a Phoenician colony on th ^ Orontes , called to this day , in Arabic , riXDH . It was conquered by Hadadezer , kirg of Nisibis , and passed from him , by right of conquest ,

    to David . 2 Sam . viii . 3 . 9 . 10 . It was reduced to subjection by Solomon , when he went to Tadmor , in its neighbourhood , and recovered from Judah and incorporated with Israel , by Jeroboam I . 2 Kings xiv . 28 . In the last quoted passage it is mentioned in connection with Damascus , as having been conquered by Jeroboam at the same time . —— -nil bmJD , understand bK ~\ W > 2 . Chadrach also stall-have tie same boundary with bttiW * \ HN- * -. e Chadrach shall

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1806, page 198, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1723/page/30/