f 27 7 frnm whenre his Pofterity. for theSake ofRoom, migrat- ed intoArabia; and, from them, Arabia was originally called the Land of Cufh, and afterwards the Land of Ha- vilah. * Yet it feems extraordinary, that St. Jerom, and other Expofitors (who have followed the Septuagint), Ihould by Cufh underftand the modern Ethiopia; which indeed, for many Reafons, feems utterly improbable. t Hofmann, in his valuable Lexicon Univerfale, proves from many Authorities, that " There were antiently two Ethiopias," which appear to have been much con- founded, and efpecially by heathen Writers. But the Ethiopia of the Old Teftament, which is wonderfully exalt in its Geography, was probably the general Name of that Tra& of Country, which reache's from Palefiine in the Weft to Per jia in the Eaft, including the greater Part of the prefent 4rabia. Thus Mofes, who married a Midianite, is Paid to have married an Ethiopian, Numb. xii. i. What is now called .Ethiopia, was very little known, and feems fcarce to have entered into the anti- ent Hiftory of the Jews. Mifraim, the Brother of Cufh, with his eight Sons (according to 7ofephus t)went down into and peopled Egypt. Phut, another Brother, was the Father of the Ethiopians and other Africans; § and Canaan, the fourth of this hopeful Stock, fettled upon that Traft of Country, which was the antient Mefopo- taraia, and was bounded by the Eaftern Extremities of the Mediterranean Sea. Cbusand Mifraim (par nobilefratrum) proved them- felves Brethren in Iniquity, as well as in Blood, and pro- pagated to their refpeftive Defcendants the idolatrous Tenets, derived from their Father. Some have fup- pofed that Belus and Cufh were the fame Perfon : Q If * Ibid. Vol. i. p. 370. HYDE de Rel. Yet. Per': e. z. Boenmer in Phaleg. 1. iv. C. 2. aped SPANH. Hiß. Eccles. p. 289. EsTius in Gen. i i . 8. t HiexoN. de Nom. Hebr. Tom. i. lint. Jud. 1. i. c. 3 SPANH. Hii Eccles. p. zoo. Ezek. xxvii. sci. H Kiacn. Oedip. Synt. iv. c. z. if HYDE de Rd. Yet. Pert. C. 2. SPAN$. Hfl. Ecclet. p. 293. fo,
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