Footnotes

[1.]Of the Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres, &c. vol. iii. and iv.—Trans.[2.]Pietate ac religione, atque hâc unâ sapientiâ quòd deorum immortalium numine omnia regi gubernarique perspeximus, omnes gentes nationesque superavimus. Orat. de Arusp. resp. n. 19.—Trans.[3.]Ecclus. x. 8[4.]The ancients themselves, according to Pindar, (Olymp. Od. vii.) had retained some idea, that the dispersion of men was not the effect of chance, but that they had been settled in different countries by the appointment of Providence.—Trans.[5.]Gen. xi. 8, 9.[6.]“When the Most High divided the nations, and separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel” (whom he had in view.) This is one of the interpretations (which appears very natural) that is given to this passage. Deut. xxxii. 8.—Trans.[7.]Ecclus. xxxvi. 17, xxxix. 19.[8.]Acts xv. 18.[9.]I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage. Exod. vi. 6. Out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt. Deut. iv. 20.—Trans.[10.]Isaiah v. 26, 30, x. 28, 34, xiii. 4, 5.[11.]Sennacherib.—Trans.[12.]Ibid. x. 13, 14.[13.]Isaiah x. 5.[14.]Ibid. ver. 7.[15.]Ibid. ver. 12.[16.]Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook into thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest. 2 Kings xix. 28.—Trans.[17.]Ezek. xxi. 19, 23.[18.]Ibid. xxvi. xxvii. xxviii.[19.]Ezek. xxviii. 2.[20.]Ibid. xxix. 18, 20.[21.]Dan. iv. 1-34.[22.]This incident is related more at large in the history of the Egyptians, under the reign of Amasis.—Trans.[23.]Ibid. iv. 30.[24.]Dan. iv. 31, 32.[25.]

Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him and I will loose the loins of kings to open before him the two-leaved gates, and the gates shall not be shut.

I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron.

And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know, that I the Lord which shall call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel. Isa. xlv. 1-3.—Trans.