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jfccs : having dcftroyed that famous Citic of 

 ruined all the children of T harps and of 

 . -':L . wereioyning vnto the defart , and thofe 

 vvc :. the South , towards the land of Cellon, 

 roin thence yzSed Euphrates : butas I have faide,' 

 iat which is r o written ofTharJis, cannot be applied to 

 , f the Citic of Tfarfi. Theodoret and fbme otherSjfollow- 

 : ; the interpretation of the 70. in fome places they 

 r Thtirf-s in Affiike , %ing, it was the fame Citic 

 -'hich was auncicnrly called Carthage , and is now the 

 Idngdome of Tbunti : and they fay , d&tfiwas ment to 

 gofhether, when as the fcripture reports, thathefled 

 from the Lord into T harps. Others pretend,that Thar* 

 ps y is a certaine countrie of the Indies : where\ 7 nto it 

 M Manet, leemes thatS. lerowt is inclined . I will not now de 

 cide thefe opinions : butlholde that in this cafe, the 

 fcripture doth not alwaies fignifie one region or cer 

 taine part of the world . It is true, that the wifemenor 

 Kings that came to worfhippe Chrift,were of the Eaft: 

 and the fcripture faith 3 they were ofSafra, Epha, and 

 ^Madiem . And fome learned men holde that they 

 were of Ethiopia, Arabia, and Pcrpa : and yet the Pfal- 

 m *ft an< ^ l ^ e Church fings ofthem : The Kings of Thar- 

 ftsjhallbringfrefents . Wee agree then with S Jerome: 

 ihatTharfis, is a word that hath many and divers figni- 

 fications in the fcripture. Som times it fignifies the Cri- 

 folite,orlacinthft>r\z^ fbrnetimes a certaine region of 

 the Indies , fometimes the fea which is of the colour of 

 alacinth by the reverberation of the funne. But the 

 JameDocSor doth with reafon deny that Tharfts is any 

 region of the Indies whether lonas would fly,feeing that 

 parting from lofpa , it had beene impoffible to faile 

 vnto the Indies by that fea, for that lopfa (which at this 



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