Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures, derived principally from the manners, customs, rites, traditions and works of art and literature, of the eastern nations : embodying all that is valuable in the works of Harmer, Burder, Paxton, and Roberts, and the most celebrated oriental travellers . er Euphrates, not in the river itself, are the fourcontemporary sultanies or dynasties, into which the em-pire of the Seljukian Turks was divided towards the closeof the eleventh century: Persia, Kerman, Syria, andRhoum. These sultanies, from different causes, were longrestrained from extending their conques
Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures, derived principally from the manners, customs, rites, traditions and works of art and literature, of the eastern nations : embodying all that is valuable in the works of Harmer, Burder, Paxton, and Roberts, and the most celebrated oriental travellers . er Euphrates, not in the river itself, are the fourcontemporary sultanies or dynasties, into which the em-pire of the Seljukian Turks was divided towards the closeof the eleventh century: Persia, Kerman, Syria, andRhoum. These sultanies, from different causes, were longrestrained from extending their conquests beyond whatmay be geographically termed the Euphratean regions, buttowards the close of the thirteenth century, the four angelson the river Euphrates were loosed in the persons of theirexisting representatives, the united Ottoman and SeljukianTurks. Gibbon, the historian of the Decline and Fall ofthe Roman Empire, must of be the guide to anyEnglish commentator on this part of the prophetic following is his testimony as to the immense numberof the Turkish cavalry: As the subject nations marchedunder the standard ol the Turks, their cavalry, Iwlhmenand horses, were proudly comjmied by millions. On thisoccasion, the myriads of the Txtrkish horse overspread a. ^^^:,^r/<^ SARDIS. Rev. 3:1. Pa(« 64& Chap. 9. REVELATION. 649 frontier of six hundred miles from Taurus to Erzeroum.—Bush. Ver. 17. And thus I saw the horses in the vision,and them that sat on them, having breastplatesof fire, and of jacinth and brimstone: and theheads of the horses were as the heads of lions;and out of their mouths issued fire, and smoke,and brimstone. 18. By these three was thethird part of men killed, by the fire, and by thesmoke, and by the brimstone, which issued outof their mouths. These prophetic characteristics of the Euphratean war-riors accord in the most perfect manner with the descrip-tion which history gives of the Tnrks. They broughtimmense armies into the field
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