Tha~ Goo u~ s; I that Tribe than ofany other,ofRewben,simeon,and I Levi · and this will confirrne it, and take away all doubts ofit. And this.is the firft proofc. . I · The fecond Argument, by which \Ve confirrne ,eArga. z. I the truthofthe Scrip'tures, is taken from the te1 · T.he tefiimo· 1'1.. . • l . h b · lllC$ that arc I· utmom~s t lat are giVen_tot em .your et;emtes ; given to the ~ theGenttles themfelves ~ezngJudges: As,to mfi:ance s~riprur~sby ~ -in the Floud,there are many that have made men- · aaverf;mcs. tion of it. Thofc Flouds that are related by the an-cient GreeluHiftorians, come [o neere it, that they mufl: needs have the relation of it from the JeweJ, though they have mingled it with many falfehoods; we have not the Writings of them, but fragments in the Writings of others, as of/·Manyrafi"a~es AlexanderPolyhiftor.in IoftphuiandCyrii:They fay 1 ~!ksnc~~l:d;ed .that there was a great Floud, and that there was 1&y the lka-– .oneNifurm,towhornSAturne revealed it,and bade ~ then. him make an Arke; and he did fo, and gathered femeofall beafis into it: and that'the Arke was inArmeni.tt;and that the fragmentsofit are in Heliopolu. AndAhidenw faith, that it was acommon opinion, that the·menwhom the EClrth brought forth, gathered rhemfeives together,and builded , a great Tower, which was Babe/; and the gods beingangrywith it, threw it downe withagreat winde,and thence came the confufion oftongues. And for the PilJar ofSalt,lofephm faith, that fome of it was remaining in his time. And for Abraw ham, many fpeake of ~him: 'And ,alfo of Mofes, there are many .tha~ ~g·:~~: in rh,ei_r fiorie ofhim 5 I but the Ch~ldee Htllonans efpectally:> and forhe of the anctenteft Greekc Hifl:orians. Diudorlfd E 3 Siculm . •
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