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Title: A dictionary of religious knowledge (electronic resource): for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922 Conant, Thomas Jefferson, 1802-1891
Subjects: Theology Religion
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library

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It em-bodied the earliest, simplest, and most crudeconceptions of a widely-extended dominion.It was a kingdom empire, like those ofSolomon, Nebuchadnezzar, and Chedorlao-mer (q. v.), and was the largest, the longest hiduration, and the best known of all such gov-ernments. Its most famous monarchs wereNinus, and his widow and successor, Semira-mis. When the great tide of Scythian inva-sion, that swept from the Caucasus even tothe borders of Egypt, had ebbed, there wasleft but the shadow of Assyrias former self;and her downfall, prophesied by Isaiah, Na- 1 Josh, x., 24; 2 Kings xix., 28; Psa. lx., 12; Isa.xxxvii., 29; Ezek. xxvi., 7-12. ASSYEIA 83 hum, and Zephaniah,1 was effected by theMedes. Assyria had served its purpose whenit had been Gods scourge for his people Is-rael. It had prepared the East for a central- ASSYRIA thee, that no more of thy name be sown. Iwill make thy grave ; there is no healing ofthy bruise. Assyria fell before the Medesand Babylonians, was divided between her
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ized government, and its work was done. And it came to pass as the Lord had said, The Lordhath given a commandment concerning 1 Iaa. x., 5-19; Nahum; Zeph. ii., 13-15. conquerors, and was never again reckonedamong the nations; the very places beingfor long centuries unknown where her proud-est cities had stood. The following are the ASTROLOGY 84 principal specific prophecies concerning As-syria : Isa. v., 25-30 ; x., 5-34; xxxvii.; Nah.i.-iii.; Zeph. ii., 13-15. Astrology (science of the stars). At an ear-ly period of the world, the worship of thestars arose from that contemplation of themwhich in every part of the globe, and partic-ularly in the East, has been found a sourceof deep and tranquil pleasure. Men deemedeither fire, or wind, or the swift air, or the cir-cle of the stars, or the violent water, or thelights of the heavens to be gods. According-ly, the religion of the Egyptians, Chaldees,Assyrians, and ancient Arabians, was noth-ing else than star-worship. The heavenlybodies

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