The History of Ancient America, Anterior to the Time of Columbus: Proving the Identity of the Aborigines with the Tyrians and Israelites; and the Introduction of Christianity into the Western Hemisphere By The Apostle St. ThomasJones, George
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The History of Ancient America, Anterior to the Time of Columbus: Proving the Identity of the Aborigines with the Tyrians and Israelites; and the Introduction of Christianity into the Western Hemisphere By The Apostle St. Thomas
Jones, George
America -- Antiquities; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Phoenician; Indians -- Origin
EZEKIEL and ZECHARIAH both prophesied the fall of Tyrus 124 years
after the time of ISAIAH,--but the latter Prophet foretold its first
destruction 140 years before its occurrence,--not only that, but that
it should be regenerated as a nation after seventy years,--_and then
be again destroyed_:--these remarkable Prophecies were accomplished.
There was, however, another portion of the last words of ISAIAH in
reference to the Tyrian kingdom, in themselves a perfect Prophecy,
which was, and is, as we firmly believe, fulfilled; but now for the
first time so contemplated. The words have been passed over even by
Christian writers, upon the supposed ground that they would prove a
negative in regard to the truth of Prophecy, and atheists have availed
themselves of that silence to advance their own wishes; but Time, the
chief champion of Heaven's children--Truth and Faith,--has now
established the affirmative in the Western Hemisphere.
The entire Prophecy, or rather Prophecies, regarding Tyrus will now be
given as uttered by ISAIAH, they having been predicted in the year 712
B. C., and consequently next in chronological order, in reference to
the History now under the contemplation of the reader.
We shall offer no minute analysis at this time, but such remarks as
may be required to explain the passages. The lines italicised have
peculiar reference to the present subject. The reader will observe
that the prediction was uttered forty years after the founding of
Rome, and 149 years after that of Carthage, as expressed in the
previous chapter; and from the savage deed committed by the tyrant
Pygmalion, it will be presumed (at least in argument) that every
principle of honour and exalted character, as possessed and practised
by Hiram the Great, had ceased to be exercised by the throne of Tyrus;
and probably so continued to the time of ISAIAH, who, thereupon--
God-instructed--uttered the following triple Prophecy concerning the
Metropolis of the World;--that it should be destroyed, but _that a
Remnant should be saved_!
It should be remembered in reading the Prophecy, that Tyrus was
originally colonized by, and from, Sidon; that the _Isle_ was only
partly inhabited, and that the Capital, at this time, was on the
_mainland_, which was distant from the Island about half a mile.
The celebrated Prophecy is as follows: viz.--
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