CONTENTS This Chapter contains the history of the first branching out of the race of men, into families and households, of which, in after ages, the whole earth is overspread. Here are no less than seventy distinct roots of nations noticed, but only one nation upon earth, and that is, God's ancient... [ Continue Reading ]
By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; everyone after his tongue, after their families, in their nations. Jeremiah 25:22. This verse is, in my apprehension, the most interesting, to us of the Gentile church, of any in the chapter. Reader! pause over it, and remark, that as t... [ Continue Reading ]
Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born. Eber, meaning Hebrew, from whence sprung the Jews. Numbers 24:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS. How graciously hath God watched over the promised seed, in the family of Shem, and so particularly marked down the descendants of the chosen race, from whom, after the flesh, that Holy Thing (as he is emphatically called in his own word) was to spring, Christ in the flesh, who is over... [ Continue Reading ]