创世记 50章26节 到 50章26节 背景资料 上一笔

     * being an hundred and ten years old.
       {Ben meah we(8369)ser shanim;} "the son of an hundred and ten
       years;" the period he lived being personified.

     # 22; 47:9,28; Jos 24:29|
     * they embalmed.
     # 2,3|

                            CONCLUDING REMARKS.

     Thus terminates the Book of Genesis, the most ancient record in
     the world; including the History of two grand and stupendous
     subjects, Creation and Providence; of each of which it presents
     a summary, but astonishingly minute and detailed accounts.
     From this Book, almost all the ancient philosophers,
     astronomers, chronologists, and historians have taken their
     respective data; and all the modern improvements and accurate
     discoveries in different arts and sciences, have only served to
     confirm the facts detailed by Moses, and to shew, that all the
     ancient writers on these subjects have approached, or receded
     from, truth and the phenomena of Nature, in exactly the same
     proportion as they have followed or receded from, the Mosaic
     history.  The great fact of the deluge is fully confirmed by
     the fossilised remains in every quarter of the globe.  Add to
     this, that general traditions of the deluge have veen traced
     among the Egyptians, Chinese, Japanese, Hindoos, Burmans,
     ancient Goths and Druids, Mexicans, Peruvians, Brazilians,
     North American Indians, Greenlanders, Otaheiteans, Sandwich
     Islanders, and almost every nation under heaven; while the
     allegorical turgidity of these distorted traditions
     sufficiently distinguishes them from the unadorned simplicity
     of the Mosaic narrative.  In fine, without this history the
     world would be in comparative darkness, not knowing whence it
     came, nor whither it goeth.  In the first page, a child may
     learn more in an hour, than all the philosophers in the world
     learned without it in a thousand years.