of the Assyrian Monarchy. 329 
before time had enabled their peculiar insti- 
tutions to form in them a distinct and perma- 
nent national character, they would have 
been dispersed and absorbed among the idola- 
ters who surrounded them: Judaism would 
have terminated before the world knew of its 
existence; and Christianity, the daughter of 
Judaism, could never have come into being, 
for the illumination and conversion of the 
world. 
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS 
TO THE PRECEDING PAPER. 
(*) 2 Samuel viii. 3. <“ David also smote Hadadezer, 
the son of Rehoh, king of Zobah, as he went to recover 
his border at the river Euphrates.’ The Sth verse men- 
tions that the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Ha- 
dadezer, but there is no mention whatever of the Assy- 
rians. 
(7) 2 Kings xv. 19. 
(3) Her. 1.95. Accupsw» apxovrav rns avw Acins em? erece 
TIKOTL KOS WevTaxoosn, Wowros am? avTwy Mndos npavro amisaodos. 
(*) Diod. Sic. 11. 1, & seq. Karespbaro mev Yop 775 
wapalararrioy Kab TNS TOVEXOUS Kwpas Thy re Avyumloy xas Dowsxny, 
Tb xo KOIAny Dupo, xas Kirsxsorv, xaos TleopQuascey, xoes Avxiccy, 
TIpos 3 ravrass tay re Kapr. x. 7. A. mexps Tavasdos, 
(5) A passage in Herodotus may seem to favour the 
opinion that Ninus extended his conquests to the shores of 
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