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the children of Ishmael shall possesse all the dwellings of the LTB - * 

 Cananites vnto Sarepte, and the transmigration of Jerusa 

 lem, which is at Bosforo, shall possesse the Citties of the 

 South, and they that shall save, shall come vp to the hill of 

 Sion to iudge the mount of Esau, and the kingdom e shall 

 bee the Lordes.&quot; 1 There is no sufficient testimony of the 

 Ancients, nor pertinent reasons to proove that Sepharad, 

 which S. lerome doth interpret the JBosphor or Straight, 

 and the 70 Interpreters Euphrates, should signifie Spaine, 

 but onely the opinion of some who hold it. Others 

 alleage the Caldean Paraphrase, which is of this opinion, 

 and the ancient Rabbins, which .expound it on this sort ; 

 as also that Zarphat is France, which the vulgar and the 70 

 Interpreters call Sarepta. But leaving this dispute, which 

 belongs to men of more leisure, what necessitie is there to 

 beleeve that the citties of the South or of Negeb (as the 

 70 write) be those of this new world? Moreover, what need 

 is there to beleeve and to take the Spanish Nation for the 

 transmigration from lerusal.em to Sapharad, vnlesse we 

 will vnderstand lerusalem spiritually, and thereby the 

 Church? So as by the transmigration from lerusalem to 

 Sapharad, the holy spirite shewes vs the children of the 

 holy Church, which inhabit the ends of the earth and the 

 banks of the Sea, for so is Sapharad vnderstood in the 

 Syrian tongue, and doth well agree with our Spaine, which 

 according to the Ancients is the ende of the earth, beeing 

 in a manner all invironed with Sea. And by the Citties of 

 the South we may well vnderstand these Indies, seeing the 

 greatest part of this newe worlde is seated in the South, 

 and the better part looks to the Pole Antartike. That 



1 &quot;And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall 

 possess that of the Canaanites even unto Zarephath, and the captivity 

 of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south. 

 And saviours shall come up on Mount Zion to judge the Mount of 

 Esau ; and the kingdom shall be the Lord s.&quot; Obadiah, verses 20, 21. 



