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colonization of Greece by Danaus and 
settlement of the Jews m Canaan i adding, i 
grants were led by Moses ; who was superior to all m wisdom 
and prowess. He gave them laws, and ordained that they 
should have no images of the gods, because there was on y 
one Deitv ” * Of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorra , 
we have a curious passage from the pen of Tacitus, which 
witnesses that, in his judgment, the facts of the Mosaic narra- 
tive were true. “ Not far from the Ked Sea lie desert plains, 
such as they report to have been of old, a fruitful country, 
full of populous P cities, which were consumed by lightnings 
and thunderbolts.” He then adds, “To speak my own 
sentiments, I must allow that cities, once great and im- 
portant, were here burnt by fee from heaven, and that the 
is infected by exhalations from tne lake. T 
S °53 Le me /ow add a few words, about the tradition of 
the Greeks respecting the Deluge j a traditionwhichlkean 
others, is primarily local belonging probably to J-hessaly) 
vetTs so mixed up with elements which are peculiar to the 
Deluge of Noah, that it is impossible not to perceive t <=i 
original source. I take it from the pen of 
bitter enemy of the Jews, would not have recorded it out ot 
any conscious desire to bear testimony to their authority. 
He gives it as a purely Greek tradition. Concerning i ^ 
jsar^s Mr sg 
of living creatures, twojnd two* „ j J Plutarch, 
another Greek writer, speaking of ' the jame tra ^°^ 
Sowfe^thirpa ^t"Lh deluge of Thessaly it is very impro- 
I SST Ph0tian ' § “ T^Urm Animalium. 
