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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 Excerpt:...(Gen. ix. 6.) and which he also wrote as he did the former for his people Israel: rw HID fiDi KW TOD "He that smiteth a man, so that He Die, shall be surely Put To Death." (Exod. xxi. 12.) To the transgression of the first of these commandments was annexed a particular curse: ninn Hid inn ova "o i2D» bnr sb jm Hd nyrrr yj/o "Of the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof Thou Shalt Surely Die." Death is now so familiar to the children of Adam, that we all know the meaning of this expression; but how could the idea be conveyed to our first parents, when as yet they had never witnessed the dissolution of any creature? We must go to the literal meaning of the word to ascertain this. The hieroglyphic picture of death was in D the same as inn D the great abyss, omitting n, written md (Moth), and jfiDTi J11D is literally "in The Chaotic Gulf Thou Shalt Be Engulfed." The n signifying "breath," may be omitted to express more correctly the state of death. And hence it is that in all ancient mythology, as well as in the sacred writings, death is connected with a gulf or deep abyss. Hesiod in describing the destruction of the Titans, (a fable borrowed from the judgement of God upon the Cuthites at the Tower of Babel, and mixed up with the fall of man) says: Vain glorious as they were, with hands of strength Overcoming them, beneath the expanse of earth, And bound with galling chains; so far beneath This earth, as earth is distant from the sky: So deep the space to darksome Tartarus." "successive there The dusky earth, and darksome Tartarus, The sterile ocean and the starry heaven, Arise and end, their source and boundary, A drear and ghastly wi...