 | Flavius Josephus - 1794 - 398 pages
...thofe difcoveries to mankind ; and alfo inform them that there was another pillar of brick erefted by them. Now this remains in the land of Siriad to this day. CHAP. * What is here faid of Seth a«d his poflerity, that they were very good and virtuous, and at... | |
 | 1836 - 498 pages
...violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars, the one of brick, and the other of stone : they inscribed their discoveries on them both, that in...Now this remains in the land of Siriad to this day." (Ant. Jud. lib. 1, c. 2, sec. 3.) As Seth was long anterior to Moses, and as the Jewish historian here... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1806 - 520 pages
...violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars ;** the one of brick, the other of stone ; they inscribed their discoveries on them both, that in case the pillar of btick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar of stone might iterations, is exactly agreeable... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1809 - 570 pages
...deftroyed by the flood, the pillar of none might remain, and exhibit thofe difcoveries tomankmd ; and alio inform them that there was another pillar of brick erected by them. Now this remains in the land of S ii lad to ibis day. * * The number of Adam's children, as fays the old tradition, was thirty-three... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1814 - 970 pages
...stone. On each of these columns . they inscribed their astronomical discoveries; in order that, if the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood,...remain, and exhibit those discoveries to mankind : and this stone pillar (he adds) was to be seen in his time in the land of Siriad. This account of Josephus... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1815 - 322 pages
...Siriail, anil p.Tlmps in the <i»ys of Jotepbus also, us it : howu in the pi act here referred to. of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar...Now this remains in the land of Siriad to this day. CHAP. III. Concerning the Flood ; and after what manner Ao«/< was sared in the ark, with his kindred,... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1822 - 474 pages
...is exactly agreeable to the state of the world, and the conduct of Providence in all the first ages. their discoveries on them both, that in case the pillar...Now this remains in the land of Siriad to this day. CHAP. III. Concerning the Flood; and after what manner Noah was saved in an Ark, with his kindred;... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1823 - 608 pages
...their inventions in astronomy on two such pillars ; yet it is no way credible the other of stone ; they inscribed their discoveries on them both, that in...Now this remains in the land of Siriad, to this day. CHAP. III. OF THE DELUGE : NOAH's PRESERVATION IN AN AUK, AND HIS SUBSEQUENT DEBARKATION AND DEATH.... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - 1825 - 456 pages
...violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars J; the one of brick, the other of stone ; they inscribed their discoveries on them both, that in...Now this remains in the land of Siriad to this day. CHAP. III. Concerning the Flood ; and after what manner Noah was saved in an Ark, with his Kindred;... | |
 | Henry Dana Ward - 1828 - 428 pages
...the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars, the one of brick, the other of stone; they inscribed their discoveries on them both, that in...Now this remains in the land of Siriad to this day." The two accounts are as much alike as parent and child; but two important discrepances may be noticed.... | |
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... might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars ;* the one of brick,... 
