The ten tribes of Israel historically identified with the aborigines of the western hemisphere / By Mrs. Simon.

  • Simon, Barbara Allan.
Date:
1836
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Credit: The ten tribes of Israel historically identified with the aborigines of the western hemisphere / By Mrs. Simon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    as the Light at a threshold,1 and as the dew upon the har¬ vest field ; for before the harvest when the blossom is full, and the embryo grape is ripening- in the flower, he shall both cut off the twigs with knives,, and lop off the branches. They shall be left together, unto the fowls of the mountain, and to the ravening beasts of the earth ; the fowls shall harvest upon them, and the beast of the earth shall winter upon them. At that time shall be brought to the Lord of hosts as a costly present; a people terrible and far re¬ moved—a nation meted out and trampled under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the appointed Place, to the Land of the dwelling Place of the Name of the Lord of hosts, the Mount Zion.’ Isaiah xviii. The image of quivering or fluttering wings, seems to be descriptive of the expecting attitude of the people to whom the allusion is made; as doves plume and put in motion their pinions preparatory to an expected flight; in this beautiful attitude they are also characterized by David. 4 Although ye have been hid in the stalls (places in the suburbs where sacrificial victims were penned) as the wings of a dove, radient as silver, and gleaming as gold, shall ye come forth.’ This applies to the identical period and event, of which Mount Zion shall be the scene. 4 Wherefore do ye contend, ye high mountains ? This is the Mountain in which God desireth to dwell, yea, Yeho- vah shall dwell there for ever.’ 4 The Lord said, I will bring again My people from Bashan, I will bring also from the seclusion beyond sea.’ 4 Princes shall come forth from Egypt, Cush shall speedily stretch forth her hands unto God.’ Psalm lxviii. 13, 22, 31. The prophet Isaiah adopts the same imagery, “ Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as doves to their win- 1 an architectural expression—the colonnade or entrance to a Temple.
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