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
Upon the accomplishment of the horrid massacre by Alexander, Tyrus was
indeed "utterly emptied and utterly spoiled,"--for the King, Azelmic,
was the only human being having life and liberty of all the Tyrian
Kingdom,--excepting the "remnant" rescued by the Sidonians. ISAIAH in
his Prophecy _foretold those two facts_; and although we are aware
that these new truths of ancient history have never been applied to
that celebrated Prophecy, yet they are brought forward--even if for
the first time--with full and assured conviction of the correctness of
the present application. We write with conscientious humility, yet
with that boldness arising from truth, founded upon a newly-discovered
fulfilment of a Scriptural Prophecy.
ISAIAH distinctly infers from the wording of his vision, concerning
the _second_, and final fall of Tyrus, that the _King_ should not be
slain, or even be a prisoner,--but that all the rest of the Nation
(except the "gleanings") should be swept away. These predictions were
actually accomplished, as shewn in the previous chapter. Of the first
two points, The Prophet says,--
"And it shall be, as with the _people_, so with the _priest_ [KING, is
not mentioned]; as with the servant, so with the master; as with the
maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as
with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so
with the giver of usury to him. The land shall be _utterly emptied_,
and _utterly spoiled_: for the LORD hath spoken this word." [xxiv.]
Now in EZEKIEL'S Prophecy of the Siege of Tyrus by Nebuchadnezzar, he
not only foretels the fall of the mainland City, but, also, of the
"Prince" and "King of Tyrus." Of, and to, the impious heir-apparent he
is authorized to exclaim,--
"Son of Man say unto the _Prince_ of Tyrus, &c. Wilt thou yet say
before him that _slayeth_ thee, 'I am a God?' but thou shalt be a man,
and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee. Thou shalt die the
death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers, for I have spoken
it saith the LORD GOD."
Of the reigning Monarch, Ithobalus the Second, he uttered as follows:
viz.--
"Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man take
up a lamentation upon the King of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith
the LORD GOD: * * * I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee
before Kings that they may behold thee. * * * All they that know thee
among the people shall be astonished at thee, thou shalt be a terror,
and never shalt thou be any more." [xxviii.]
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