418 APPENDIX. 



f. Because Jonah (Jon. i. 3) found a ship at Joppa going to 

 Tarshish. 



2. Tarshish was a maritime, not an inland, country. (Suf- 

 ficiently shewn by most of the passages above cited). 



3. It was a place of maritime celebrity, at least as early as 

 the times of David and Solomon (Ps. Ixxii.). 



4. It was a noted resort of the Tyrian traders. (See pass- 

 ages under prop. 1.) 



5. It produced silver (Jer. x. 9 ; Ezek. xxvii. 12). 



6. It produced iron (Ezek. xxvii. 12). 



7. It produced tin (Ibid.}. 



8. It produced lead (Ibid.). 



9. Tarshish continues to exist to the end of this dispensa- 

 tion. (See Ps. xlviii. ; Isa. ii. 16 ; Ps. Ixxii. 10 ; all of which 

 refer to the introduction or the course of the millennium).* 



10. Tarshish is a maritime power at the end (Ps. xlviii. ; 

 Isa. ii.). 



11. The ships of Tarshish will be the chief medium for 

 conveying the people of Israel " from far " to their own land, 

 for millennial blessing (Isa. Ix. 9 ; where note that Tarshish 

 is the first of "the isles," or maritime countries). 



12. Tarshish is an eminently mercantile people at the end 

 (Ezek. xxxviii. 13). 



1 3. Tarshish is a warlike people at the end (Ibid.). In this 

 invasion of the land of Israel by Gog, the Prince of Eos, Mosc, 

 and Tobl, the " young lions " of Tarshish, as well as its mer- 

 chants, remonstrate against the invasion, though they do 

 not take up arms against it. This indicates a commanding 

 power. 



Such are the data which Scripture gives us for the deter- 

 mination of the question ; a question which the prominent 

 part to be acted by this power in events now surely at the 

 doors, renders by no means unimportant. 



An objection may occur against proposition 1, from 1 Kings 

 x. 22 ; 2 Chron. ix. 21 ; where the navy of Solomon is repre- 



* Some of these arguments will be cogent only to those who hold pre-mil- 

 lennial views of Divine Prophecy. 



