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Tcmanite. He certainly was an inhabitant of Arabia, 

 It is probable he lived as early as the times of 

 Abraham, and, as his possessions were attacked by 

 both Arabs and Chaldeans, that he was living in the 

 land of the Ishmaelites, a considerable portion of which 

 would be desert. The Sabaean descendants of Joktan, 

 in going north from Kahtan, perhaps taking the very 

 same route that the Sabaean Arabs do now annually, fell 

 upon Job's asses and oxen simultaneously as the 

 Chaldeans took off his camels, although the events did 

 not perhaps take place quite in the same place. In the 

 thirty-ninth chapter of the Book of Job the occupation 

 of the horse in Arabia is shown : he is a war-horse and 

 hunter. In the eighteenth verse, in speaking of the 

 ostrich (a bird of Arabia), 'What time she lifteth up 

 herself on high, she scorneth the Jiorse and his rider, — 

 shows he is ridden, not driven, as among the Egyptians 

 and other nations ; his avocation then was the same as 

 at the present day. The grand description of the horse 

 recounted to Job, so universally admired, and essentially 

 descriptive of the Arabian horse, and so vividly pour- 

 traying him to the mind, does not admit of a doubt 

 that he was then a native of Arabia, and most probably 

 was not altogether unknown to Job. 



The Arabs are a people who have existed from the 

 earliest times. Many ancient nations have passed away, 

 new ones risen and also disappeared, but the Arabs still 

 exist, and are the same as four thousand years ago. 

 May we not well believe that the wisdom and power 

 that have kept a people through so many centuries, and 



