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History of the Syrian Nation and the Old Evangelical-Apostolic Church of the East; From Remote Antiquity to the Present Time
History of the Syrian Nation and the Old EvangelicalApostolic Church of the East From Remote Antiquity to the Present Time Author:George David Malech General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1910 Original Publisher: s.n. Subjects: Nestorian Church History / Middle East / General Religion / Christianity / History Religion / Eastern Religion / Christianity / General Religion / Christian Church / History Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of th... more »e 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: CHAPTER V THE ARAMAIC LANGUAGE. IN the First Book of Moses, chapter 11, 1, we are told that, previous to the confusion of tongues at Babel, "the whole earth was of one language and one speech." As a consequence we have to assume, that the language of the Paradise and the tongue spoken in Noah's Ark was one and the same. As Noah lived 350 years after the deluge, and his son Shem 500 years, the language of the ark was in existence years after the confusion; we reach down to the times of Abraham, the patriarch. We may further assume that Shem and Abraham met and talked with each other in the language of the ark. Many languages were formed during the confusion, but the language of the Paradise and the Ark, the language in which the Lord himself spoke to the parents, Adam and Eve, that language was not touched and became the source and origin of all other languages, ancient and modern. The Holy Writ records as a fact beyond any doubt, that Mesopotamia is the cradle of the human race. The inhabitants of the country were the offspring of Shem; they were "Semites." In the First Book of Moses, it is said that Abraham went from Mesopotamia to the land of Canaan, but Lot went with him. The sons of Arphaxad settled on the boundaries of Mesopotamia, and Asher, a son of Jacob, and Aram, lived in Mesopotamia proper. That country was called Aram and the inhabitants Arameans. The Greek name of the coun...« less