This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...Moreover, Sennacherib twice passed by Jerusalem without venturing upon a siege of the city, as mentioned in verse 4. Psalm ex. 1. "The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool." In this picture the Egyptian artist makes use of the same thought as the Psalmist; the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...Moreover, Sennacherib twice passed by Jerusalem without venturing upon a siege of the city, as mentioned in verse 4. Psalm ex. 1. "The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool." In this picture the Egyptian artist makes use of the same thought as the Psalmist; the figure of speech is represented to the eye. The Egyptian king Rameses II. is here standing upon his enemies. It is taken from the sculpture in the temple of Beit-el-Welbe, in Nubia, of which a cast is in the British Museum. The king holds H a bow and a battle-axe. His short clothing reaches only to his knees. Behind him hangs a cow's tail, one of the usual badges of royalty, which is also worn by a god in p. 80. He has sandals on his feet, but no helmet. Psalm Cxliv. 12. "That our daughters may be as corner stones or, more literally, as columns, polished after the similitude of a palace." The reader may, perhaps, have seen or heard of the Greek columns in the form of women, called Caryatides. The above is from one now in the British Museum. It is one of six of these figures which once supported the portico of a small temple in Athens, called the Temple of Pandrosos, built about B.C. 500. Proverbs, Viii. 27. "When He prepared the heavens, I Wisdom was there: when He set a compass or drew the circle upon the face of the deep." The Egyptian figure of the earth, a round plain, floating on the surface of the water, and surrounded by the body of the god Osiris. The earth itself was supposed to be the goddess Isis; and upon the head of Osiris stands Neith, the goddess of the heavens, or sky, holding up the sun.--From the sarcophagus in Sir John Soane's museum. This opinion of the earth being a round plain was common to all t...
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