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 . n mentioned. D Herbelot,however, cites an eastern poet, who, celebrating the prowessof Gelaleddin, surnamed Mankberni, and KhovarezmeShah, a most valiant Persian prince, .said, He was dreadfulas a lion in the field, and not less terrible in the water thana crocodile. The power of the anient kings of Egjpt se
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 . n mentioned. D Herbelot,however, cites an eastern poet, who, celebrating the prowessof Gelaleddin, surnamed Mankberni, and KhovarezmeShah, a most valiant Persian prince, .said, He was dreadfulas a lion in the field, and not less terrible in the water thana crocodile. The power of the anient kings of Egjpt seems to berepresented after the same manner, by the prophet F/( kiel,ch. xxix. 3, Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king ofEgypt, the great dragon (the i^real rrocodile) that licth inthe midst of his rivers, which hath said, Mv river is mineown, and I have made it myself In his S2d chapter, 2dverse, the same prophet makes use of both the similes, Ithink, of the panegyrist of Gelaleddin : Take up a lainen-tntion for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him. Thouart like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as awhale {a eroeoiHle) Ihe seas: and thou camest forth with(or from) thy rivers, and troiibledst the waters with thy feet,and fouledstihcir rivers. -,ir,riFnT)^.nT;;iii] a I O s HH O B Chap. 32- EZEKIEL. 537 It is very odd in our translators, to render the originalword nva tatmem, whale, and at the same time talk offeat; nor indeed are rivers the abode of the whale; its bulkis too great to admit of that: the term dragon, which isthrown into the margin, is the preferable version ; whichword in our language, as the Hebrew word in the original,is, I think, generic, and includes the several species ofoviparous quadrupeds, if not those of the serpentine crocodile is, without doubt, the creature the prophetmeans; and the comparison seems to point out the power ofEgyptian kings of antiquity; they were mighty by sea aswell as by land.—Harmer. Ver. 3. Thus saith tho L
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