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An Epitome of General Ecclesiastical History, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time
An Epitome of General Ecclesiastical History From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Author:John Marsh Subtitle: With an Appendix, Giving a Condensed History of the Jews From the Destruction of Jerusalem to the Present Day General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1835 Original Publisher: Tilden Subjects: Jews Church history History / Jewish Religion / Christianity / History Religion / Christian Church / Hist... more »ory Social Science / Jewish Studies Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PERIOD II. FROM THE CALL OF ABRAHAM TO THE DIRTH OF CHRIST ; EMBRACING 1921 YEARS. CHAPTER I. Call of Abraham. InPtitu'. ion of Circumcision, ami ftalilieliment of the Jewish Church. Destruction of the cities of the plain. Slate 0t religion in tile world. Abraham was born in the 200Sth year of the world ; 352 years after the flood, and 1996 years before Christ. He was the son of Terah ; and the tenth, in a direct line from Noah. His ancestors lived in Ur of the Chaldces ; whence his father came into Mesopotamia, expelled, if we may credit a traditionary account recorded in the book of Judith, by the idolaters, for his worship of the true God. Even they, however, were seduced into the heaven-provoking abomination, and bowed down, to some extent, to idols. " Your father," said God, by Joshua, " dwelt on the other side of the flood (the Euphrates) in old time; even Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor; and they served other gods. Besides Abraham, Terah had two sons, Nahor and Haran, and one daughter, Sarai, who became Abraham's wife. Though she was his sister she was of a different mother. Haran was the father of Lot, and died in Ur. As the nations were becoming corrupt with amazing rapidity, and true religion was in danger of being extinct in the world, God selected this family to be th...« less