Observations on Divers Passages of Scripture. Placing Many of Them in a Light Altogether New and More Amply Illustrating the Rest Than Has Been Yet ... of Voyages and Travels Into the East (Volum - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1150115475 ISBN 13: 9781150115479

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1787. Excerpt: ... Observation XCI. Takhtdar, d'Herbelot informs us ', is a Persian word, which properly signifies a pre cious carpet, which is made use of for the covering the throne of the kings of Persia; and that this word is also used as an epithet, by which the Persians describe their princes, on. account of their being possessed of this throne: now I would propose it as a query, Whether it is not as probable, that the term coverings applied by the prophet Ezekiel to the prince of Tyrus, may be explained in a similar way, and be as good a solution of a very obscure epithet as any that has been offered by the learned? It certainly will have the advantage, as appears by this citation, of being truly in the Eastern taste. The passage, referred to in Ezekiel, is as follows: " Son of man, take up a lamenta" tion upon the king of Tyrus, and fay unto " him, Thus faith the Lord God, Thou feal" est up the sum, full of wisdom, and per" sect in beauty. Thou hast been in Eden " the garden of God: every precious stone " was thy covering, the fardius, topaz, &c. " Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth: " and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the " holy mountain of God; thou hast walked! P. 847. " up and down in the midst of the stones " ot-fire, &cc. By the multitude of thy mer" chandise they have filled the midst of thee " with violence, and thou hast sinned: there" fore I will cast thee as profane out of the ' mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, ' O covering cherub, from the midst of the " stones of fire." Ch. xxviii. 12--16. TJie explanation given by the learned of this epithet covering has been, by some, that it is an allusion to the posture of the cherubic figures that were over the ark 1; and of others, that it means the protection this prince afforded to other st...

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