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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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of Assyria,Babylon, and Egypt. Phoenicia was peopled by the descendantsof Ham; for Sidon is said to have been thefirst-born of Canaan; and the Arkite, andprobably the Sinite, the Arvadite, and theZemarite, had their settlements in this re-gion. At no time did they form even an or-ganized confederacy; only in times of dan-ger did their great cities, ordinarily separateand independent, unite under the leadershipof the most powerful. Among these citiesthe chief were Sidon, Tyre, Berytus, Byblus,Tripolio, and Aradus. The Greeks professedto have borrowed letters from the Phoeni-cians, who unquestionably used charactersolder than the Hebrew, of which they were,perhaps, the origin. Their language wasessentially Hebrew. Their religion, in itspopular form, was that natural but debasedand foolish worship paid to the sun, moon,and planets by the appellations of Baal andAshtorefh (<;. v.). Very pernicious effectswere produced on Israel by their contact PHENICE, PHCENICIA 745 PHENICE, PH(ENICIA
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and alliance with the PhcenNot only was idol-worship thported, but also the most cruelattendant upon it.1 Though the word Phenice, vis of Greek origin, occurs only ibook of Acts, the land itself is fre-quently referred to in the O. T., gen-erally under the title of its chief cit-ies, Tyre and Sidon. Eecent exploratious inthe island of Cyprus by an Italian, Count deCesnola, has brought to light a number of cu-rious and interesting testimonies to the an-cient civilization of Phoenicia. From an ar-ticle published in Harpers Magazine, vol. xlv.,p. 188, we take an illustration, representing a1 See Ahab. Jer. six., 5; xxxii., 35. colossal head. This and other relics discov-ered show that great proficiency had beenattained in working in glass and bronze andstone, as well as in engraving and the con-struction of jewelry. See Tyre ; Sidon ; Ca-naan ; Hiram. (Acts xi., 19; xv., 3; xxi., 2;xxvii., 12. J 2. A town.—Phenice (it should be Phoenix) PHILADELPHIA no PHILIPPI occurs in Acts xxvii., 1

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