The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-10-03 00:00:00

ALZIAXDII4 AFD in Foonir.ClLS OF OCtirtoot.

A writer in the frAitekail R4oklo remarkat—l wonder
if it hustruck many poopte that tie city Li! Ale:marts is
identical with the city of No Amon, in Egypt, against
woich so many denunciations Cr. uttered by this pi opbets
Jeremiah, &alike!, sad Nahum, This, taken in roa-
m:A:on with the rapid decadence of tie ()Houma empire
aud the auyeurwas UntlolCeireht of belief among all
Huissuanedans that tin mists of their relision has armil,
gad that • renal° is wig ("Jehad") sill forthwith tate
place, widok abaft either folly re-getablah Sae )tokum.
modan pow., as io ite palmy days, or in.d in its utter
de.trucdoa, loud, ad litiooal interest to the idenilioalion
of toe two cit.m. Aod nut as to the podtion of No
Amon, Is Hoot. 'file prophet Nahum grapiduily
directives it be tied üboug the riven. with the water.
ruuud about, arid the au a. a "ramped." Nahtuu
8 :—"Art thou beau than populous No Amon, that was
.tide among the rirere ; last had tne miters round
about ;it, whose rampart pas the ma, sod her wall war
from the seal Jl:hiopla sod Egypt were her atrength."
This is exactly such as A 101.0,1.1,1 is, aurrouuded by the
✓ivers of the Dadra and the bikes, with the sea In front.
Eaekiell, chapter xi-L, v. 13 and follow:rig. say.:—" I .111
put • fear in the land us Egypt. . . . I will cut off
tue multitude of No. I w'll set fire in Egypt, and No
shiall be rent asunder, and I will pour out my fury
upon Pali/slum the •trangth of /Lays and execute Jude.
meat in No." Again, Jeremiah says, chapter thy., a.
(5: —" I will punish the multitude co No. I will delver
them into the hauda of Nebuchadnezzar. But efterwardt
it sAaU be inbau:ted as in taw days of yid." Here lea
aim pie stetement Hist No Attloo, the populous city, dtuato
amid the watere, "should be destroyed, but afterwards
re-buid, and be again a populous city inhabited as in the
data of old," it only remains to identify Alexandria
with No Amon. In the margin of the Bible of the
century No Amon is corrected "Alexandria." In the
o:der Jewish Spanish Batik the tut Is Alemandris. In
the Vulgate (Jeroms'e) the words are "faciain Judie& in
.Itexandria." Auother step bring' no back to a &heti time
before the bi-th of Christ. Imm. Jewish Tugum of
Jonathan Ben Uzziel distinctly cello it Alexandria. No
Aaiun of the prophet wu recognised as Alexandria by the
Hebrew commentator before Chri.t. It la, to my the
least, carious thiit the destruction of to. city of Alexander,
am of Amon, at the present day by ore and warshould
form such • parallel with the destruction of the city of
Amon by Nebuchadnezzar, when, u the prophot Mts.
"The strength of Egypt Wee destroyed but yet that toe
city should be re-built." So now in the fulness of time,
the lung forat Ad, and as dry finishel destruction of the
hi ihazrunedan power in Earops, ABM, and Africa, is, by
the d struction of Alexandria, nearly accomplialud, the
"water. cut off," and the greet river Euphrates of the
Prophet very nearly dried up. It is • strange fact that we
are looking at the fultilment of prophecy oefore our Ter,
eyes, while the thinly-lowed detetreillattoll Of Rhelhe to
are the Holy Lind, and front by the duanambernmat of
turkey, pante with,, felt ,riof Linger Cu "The talus
that :mut shortly come to p :az