The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . nishment of the wicked, andthe suddenness with which it overtakes Mr. Bruce, inhis travels to discover the source of the Nile, was suddenlycaught by a whirlwind, which lifted up a camel, and threw itto a considerable distance. It also threw himself and his ser-vants down on their faces, so as to make the blood gush fromtheir nostrils. Sometimes, Maillet informs us, whole caravanshave been buried under the sand with which these winds arecharged. When connected with the hot, pestilential The Simoom. • r simoom, they a
The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . nishment of the wicked, andthe suddenness with which it overtakes Mr. Bruce, inhis travels to discover the source of the Nile, was suddenlycaught by a whirlwind, which lifted up a camel, and threw itto a considerable distance. It also threw himself and his ser-vants down on their faces, so as to make the blood gush fromtheir nostrils. Sometimes, Maillet informs us, whole caravanshave been buried under the sand with which these winds arecharged. When connected with the hot, pestilential The Simoom. • r simoom, they are peculiarly fatal. Thevenot men-tions the suffocation from this cause of 4,000 persons in 1655,and of nearly 20,000 in 1688. Compare Isa. xvii. 13: 3: Isa. xxxii. 2: Matt. vii. 27 : Proir. xxix. 1. Ilarmers Observations, i. 164. bGen. xli. 6: Ezek. xvii. 10; xix. 2: Hos. xiii. ! a dActsxxvii. 14. * Luke xii. 54: 1 Kings xviii. 44, 45f Prov. x xv. 23 • Job xxxvii. 9, 22 e Luke xii. 55: Zech. ix 14. b Prov. i 27; x 25. ?BH. ^^^^^ SUMMTT OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, Mount ol Ascension. vPage305.)(Luke xxiv. 5!).)
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