Nineveh And Its Remains With An Account of a Visit to the Chaldean Christians
Nineveh And Its Remains With An Account of a Visit to the Chaldean Christians
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The sum of the argument is this : From the age of Tobit it appears that Nineveh \v;is standing in B. C. 610. For he became blind in the year 710, and survived that accident <00 years, and yet he died before the fall of Nineveh. But a pro. Phecy of Jeremiah, written in the first year of the captivity, B. C. 605, seems to imply that the city ^ . Is then destroyed ; for in the particular enumeration of all the kings of the north far and near, and all I he kingdoms of the world, etc. , Assyria and Nine\eh are not named. The testimony of Scripture, then, decides that the city was captured, and the Assyrian ITS REMAINS. and lions forming the entrances, and the crouching sphinxes between them. But the arguments they afford will be the same, whether they were the work of those who founded the building, or whether they Avere brought from elsewhere. If the latter be the case, we should be furnished with additional proof in favour of the high antiquity of the earliest edifice. In the material, a kind of limestone, out of which the bulls and lions are sculptured, as well as in certain pecu- liarities of form (as, for instance, in being provided with four legs, and having small figures carved on the same slab), they differ from any others discovered amongst the ruins.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The sum of the argument is this : From the age of Tobit it appears that Nineveh \v;is standing in B. C. 610. For he became blind in the year 710, and survived that accident <00 years, and yet he died before the fall of Nineveh. But a pro. Phecy of Jeremiah, written in the first year of the captivity, B. C. 605, seems to imply that the city ^ . Is then destroyed ; for in the particular enumeration of all the kings of the north far and near, and all I he kingdoms of the world, etc. , Assyria and Nine\eh are not named. The testimony of Scripture, then, decides that the city was captured, and the Assyrian ITS REMAINS. and lions forming the entrances, and the crouching sphinxes between them. But the arguments they afford will be the same, whether they were the work of those who founded the building, or whether they Avere brought from elsewhere. If the latter be the case, we should be furnished with additional proof in favour of the high antiquity of the earliest edifice. In the material, a kind of limestone, out of which the bulls and lions are sculptured, as well as in certain pecu- liarities of form (as, for instance, in being provided with four legs, and having small figures carved on the same slab), they differ from any others discovered amongst the ruins.
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