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Bemaeks On The Historical Scbiptures -
and issued the edict for the return of the great body of Jews to their own land . This prince appears always to have treated the Hebrews with great kindness and consideration . He has honourable notice in the Holy Scriptures . At his death , Cambyses became king . This monarch conquered Egypt , and , offended by the superstition of the inhabitants ,
destroyed their god Apis , and plundered their temples . He has heen termed a madman , but for what reason it . is difficult to understand , since his great enterprizes were successful . In allusion to the supposed overwhelming of a part of tins monarch ' s forces in a simoom , Darwin observes ^ in the true Cambyses vein : ' —
ce Onward , resistless , rolls the infuriate surge , Clouds follow clouds , and mountains mountains urge ; Wave over wave >;' th & driving desert swims , Bursts o ' er their heads , inhumes their struggling limbs ; Mm mounts 012 man , on camels camels rush ^ Hosts march o ' er hosts , and nations nations crush , —
Wheeling in air the winged islands Mb And one great earthy ocean covers . ' . all 1 Then ceas'd the storm , —night bow'd his Ethiop brow To earth , and listen 'd to the groans below ; Orim horror shook ; - ^ awhile the living heU Ifeaved with Convulsive throes—arid all Was still ! ' *'
Cambyses died b . c . 521 . He left no issue to succeed him , and his throne was usurped by the Magi , but after a time Darius Hystaspes , a noble Persi & ny-hecame king . Me was a wise and powerful monarch , and established on a firm basis the vast empire which Cyrus had conquered . He favoured the Jews , and it was in the seventh year of his reign that the second
temple was finished . He was succeeded by Xerxes ^ the king who invaded Greece . He it is who is mentioned in Ezra iv . 6 , "In the reign of Ahasuerus wrote they ( the hired counsellors ) unto hirh an accusation against the inhabitants of Jerusalem . '" Josephus tells us that he confirmed the Jews in all the privileges granted by his father , and even gave them th < 3 Samaritan tribute for the service of the temple .
His successor was Artaxerxes Longimaiius—the Artaxerxes of Ezra and Nehemiah , and the Ahasuerus of Esther . Nehemiah was held ori high favour by this monarch- he says , chap . hi . 11 , u For he was the king ' s cupbearer ^ which is always mentioned by ancient writers as a highly confldential and honourable office , the bearer enjoying peculiar opportunities of access to the king . He received the appointment of governor of Judea ,
and had permission to rebuild the walls and towers of Jerusalem , and during the twelve years of his government , he disbursed large sums in this work . The office he had enjoyed had doubtless enabled him to accumulate wealth . He afterwards returned to Persia , his old master being still alive , and then , after a short period , had Artaxerxes ' s permission to return to Jerusalem . The king died , b . c . 423 , and was succeeded by Darius Nothus , " Darius the Persian" of Neherniah , xii . 22 , s
Theot are five eminent measures or methods , whereby the mind is improved ill knowledge—and these are , observation , reading , instruction by lecture , conversation , and meditation , tho last of which , in a more peculiar manner , called study . Each . of these five methods has its peculiar advantages by which it materially agists the others , and its peculiar defects , which need to be supplied by tho assistance of tho rest . —JJurh . 2 Y
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Bemaeks On The Historical Scbiptures -
and issued the edict for the return of the great body of Jews to their own land . This prince appears always to have treated the Hebrews with great kindness and consideration . He has honourable notice in the Holy Scriptures . At his death , Cambyses became king . This monarch conquered Egypt , and , offended by the superstition of the inhabitants ,
destroyed their god Apis , and plundered their temples . He has heen termed a madman , but for what reason it . is difficult to understand , since his great enterprizes were successful . In allusion to the supposed overwhelming of a part of tins monarch ' s forces in a simoom , Darwin observes ^ in the true Cambyses vein : ' —
ce Onward , resistless , rolls the infuriate surge , Clouds follow clouds , and mountains mountains urge ; Wave over wave >;' th & driving desert swims , Bursts o ' er their heads , inhumes their struggling limbs ; Mm mounts 012 man , on camels camels rush ^ Hosts march o ' er hosts , and nations nations crush , —
Wheeling in air the winged islands Mb And one great earthy ocean covers . ' . all 1 Then ceas'd the storm , —night bow'd his Ethiop brow To earth , and listen 'd to the groans below ; Orim horror shook ; - ^ awhile the living heU Ifeaved with Convulsive throes—arid all Was still ! ' *'
Cambyses died b . c . 521 . He left no issue to succeed him , and his throne was usurped by the Magi , but after a time Darius Hystaspes , a noble Persi & ny-hecame king . Me was a wise and powerful monarch , and established on a firm basis the vast empire which Cyrus had conquered . He favoured the Jews , and it was in the seventh year of his reign that the second
temple was finished . He was succeeded by Xerxes ^ the king who invaded Greece . He it is who is mentioned in Ezra iv . 6 , "In the reign of Ahasuerus wrote they ( the hired counsellors ) unto hirh an accusation against the inhabitants of Jerusalem . '" Josephus tells us that he confirmed the Jews in all the privileges granted by his father , and even gave them th < 3 Samaritan tribute for the service of the temple .
His successor was Artaxerxes Longimaiius—the Artaxerxes of Ezra and Nehemiah , and the Ahasuerus of Esther . Nehemiah was held ori high favour by this monarch- he says , chap . hi . 11 , u For he was the king ' s cupbearer ^ which is always mentioned by ancient writers as a highly confldential and honourable office , the bearer enjoying peculiar opportunities of access to the king . He received the appointment of governor of Judea ,
and had permission to rebuild the walls and towers of Jerusalem , and during the twelve years of his government , he disbursed large sums in this work . The office he had enjoyed had doubtless enabled him to accumulate wealth . He afterwards returned to Persia , his old master being still alive , and then , after a short period , had Artaxerxes ' s permission to return to Jerusalem . The king died , b . c . 423 , and was succeeded by Darius Nothus , " Darius the Persian" of Neherniah , xii . 22 , s
Theot are five eminent measures or methods , whereby the mind is improved ill knowledge—and these are , observation , reading , instruction by lecture , conversation , and meditation , tho last of which , in a more peculiar manner , called study . Each . of these five methods has its peculiar advantages by which it materially agists the others , and its peculiar defects , which need to be supplied by tho assistance of tho rest . —JJurh . 2 Y