The New York herald., 1922-11-05

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minis. whose bodies. according to Jo-
sephus. were so large and countenances
so entirely different from other men that
they were surprising to the sight and ter
rible TO the hearing"
The bones of giants who dwelt at
Hebron-the descendants of Anak-were
still in good preservation in his day, and
he says. They were unlike any credible
relations of other men,"
When Joshua sent the spies to search
out and view the land of Canaan they re-
turned with the report, saying: The land
through which we have gone to search it
Is a land that eateth up the inhabitants
thereof; and all the men that we saw in
1t were men Of great stature. And there
we saw the giants: and some of Anak
which come Of the giants; and we were in
our own sights as gTasshoppers, and so we
were in their sight" They further de-
scribed their cities as walled and very
great" (Numbers 1S: 2S-SS)
The Emims, another race of giants.
"were people great and many and tall as
the Anakims." These people dwelt in the
land of Ammon. which Lot took as a pos
session. being accounted land of giants"
They were known among the Ammonites
and Zumzummins. (Deut 2: 10. IL, 20. 21)
The land OF Bashan belonged to another
race of giants. their cities being fenced
with high walls. gates and bars, besides
unwalled towns a great many" (Deut 8:
4. 5)
Some idea Of the gigantic stature of
these people may be obtained by the ac-
count Of Og the King of Bashan in verse
2 whose -bedstead was bedstead Of iron
nine cubits was the length
thereof and four cubits the breadth OF it,
after the cubit Of a man.
DIR. Adam Clark says: ALLOWING the bed
stead 10 have been one cubit longer than
Og. which is certainly sufficient. and allow
ing the cubit to have been about eighteen
inches long. for this is perhaps the average
of man. then Og was twelve feet high"
1t is not uncommon to discover both
human and mammoth skeletons in this
day, one Of the most recent being that of
the skeleton of a man who in life is sup
| posed to have measured nine feet in
stature. this discovery having been made
| by DIR. j. Holland, curator of Carnegie
Museum, Pittsburgh. during excavations
OF mound about six miles southeast of
Greenburg. Pa.
/ Very little is said in the Bible about
/ dwarfs, except that they were forbidden to
be priests under the Levitical Law U.ev
xxi. 20). reference also being made to
Zaccheus. a rich man and collector Of
tribute in Jericho. Being small of stature.
and desirous 10 see Jesus but could not
for the press. he ran before and climbed
up into a sycamore tree And when
Jesus came TO the place. he looked up and
saw him. and said unto him. Zaccheus.
make haste and come down. for TODAY I
must abide at thy house." And il is
added. And he made haste and came down
and received him joyfully'" duke xix.
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Among ancient writers who believed in
| the existence Of dwarfs both in extreme
minuteness and as nations. was Aristotle.
the greatest of all philosophers and natur-
alists who lived nearly 400 years before
Christ having declared that the report of
trustworthy witnesses testified to the ex-
istence Of a minute race of men with
minute horses, living in caves which were
washed by the waters OF the Nile"
Pliny. who lived between two and three
hundred years later adds his testimony 10
this story by giving various details of
their habits and geological position" A
modern writer says: Amongst the ex-
treme cases recorded in ancient history, we
may notice that of Philatus. poet who