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" Sabeans, men of ftature, mail come over unto thee, and 

 " they mall be thine*." Here the feveral nations are diftinct- 

 ly and feparately mentioned in their places, but the whole 

 meaning of the paflage would have been loft, had not the 

 iituation of thefe nations been perfectly known ; or, had 

 not the Sabeans been mentioned feparately, for both the 

 Sabeans and the Cufhite were certainly Ethiopians. Now, 

 the meaning of the verfe is, that the fruit of the agricul- 

 ture of Egypt, which is wheat, the commodities of the ne- 

 gro, gold, filver, ivory, and perfumes, would be brought by 

 the Sabean fhepherds, their carriers, a nation of great power, 

 which fhould join themfelves with you. 



Again, Ezekiel fays,f "And they mall know that I am 

 " the Lord, when I have fet a fire in Egypt, and when all 

 " her helpers lhall be deflroyed."— '' In that day mall mef- 

 " fengers go forth from me in fhips, to make the carelefs 

 " Ethiopians afraid." Now, Nebuchadnezzar was to deftroy 

 Egypt X, from the frontiers of Paleftine, to the mountains 

 above Atbara, where the Cufhite dwelt. Between this and 

 Egypt is a great defert ; the country beyond it, and on both 

 fides, was pofTefTed by half a million of men. The Cuihite, or 

 negro merchant, was fecure under thefe circumftances from 

 any i'nfult by land, but they were open to the fea, and had no 

 defender, and meffengers, therefore, in mips or a fleet had 

 eafy accefs to them, to alarm and keep them at home, that 

 they did not fall into danger by marching into Egypt againft 

 Nebuchadnezzar, or interrupting the fervice upon which 

 Qod had fent him. But this does not appear from tranfla- 



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* Ifa. chap, fdy, ver. 14. f Ezek. chap. xxx. ver. 8. and 9. $ Ezek. chap. xxix. ver. 1 0, 



