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(3.) Phoenician Settlements. 
on Without asking whether there was any identity between 
t,hat there were various ^ een^ Cyprus was one. It 
Mediterranean Sea. Ui tnese^ rue i& JfVu+i-m * the his- 
is mentioned in ™ preserved^' Citium, the principal 
toncal accuracy of which P t h at Chittim is first 
disproves their subsequent displace y Rhodes ; the 
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ment of whose remains are extant is b ^ h ^ ^ Mogaic 
i„g to whom we have an mteres^ £ ^ $ aU things was 
cosmogony. . , t t_ chaos existing without ages 
a gloomy air and the creation of all 
(comp. &en. 1 . 1* 2). • L ^ e P* -l -nroduced a watery, 
things was the agitation o j s p £ this shone forth 
muddy mixture (comp. Gen._i. 1 6). r being flln . 
the sun, moon, planets, an ^ r ®^ lent] heate d, clouds and 
minated, and the earth thunder and lightning, at the 
winds arose. Hence storms of ^^^ 8 moye f by land 
sound of which intelligent cr ® a ” r ' f orme d, the progenitors 
and sea. And lastly two mortals t y g an( } the Mosaic 
of all mankind.! The similarity between^thi^ gtat0S 
cosmogony cannot be ®y5° p h<Bnic ians was Elmn, which is 
that the Supreme God of the . y> lg) as that by 
the very name Moses give j A ova h This testimony is very 
which Melchisedec served Jeho van. 
re wfmiS now turn to the last section of our subject, viz- 
“ Isles of Chittim” wa \*| owe J Tnchon^puiTES? Uki- 
Kenricks Phoenicia. Also Sanchon. apuct nus o 
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