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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. GIST FALSE ANALOGIES COMPARATIVE THEOLOGY. Very different from the real similarities tbat can be discovered in nearly all the religions of the world, and which, owing to their deeply human character, in no way necessitate the admission that one religion borrowed from the other, are those minute coincidences between the Jewish and the Pagan religions which have so often been discussed by learned theologians, and which were intended by them as proof positive, either that the Pagans borrowed their religious ideas direct from the Old Testament, or that some fragments of a primeval revelation, granted to the ancestors of the whole race of mankind, had been preserved in the temples of Greece and Italy. Bochart, in his Geographia Sacra, considered the identity of Noah and Saturn so firmly established as hardly to admit of the possibility of a doubt. The three sons of Saturn ? Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto ? h represented as having been originally the three sons of Noah: Jupiter being Ham; Neptune, Japhet; and Shem, Pluto. Even in the third generation the two families Vre proved to have been one, for Phut, the son of Hamper of Jupiter Hammon, could be no other than Apollo Pythius; Canaan no other thanMercury; and Nimrod no other than Bacchus, whose original name was supposed to have been Bar-chus, the son of Gush. G. J. Vossius, in his learned work, De Origine et Progressu Idolatrise (1688), identified Saturn with Adam, Janus with Noah, Pluto with Ham, Neptune with Japhet, Minerva with Naamah, Vulcan with Tubal Cain, Typhon with Og. Huet, the friend of Bochart, and the colleague of Bossuet, went still farther; and in his classical work, the Demonstratio Evangelica, he attempted to prove that the whole theology of the heathen nations was borrowed from Moses, whom ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217187886 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217187889 |
| Weight | 0.51 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.35 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 150 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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