Excerpt from The Expectations Formed by the Assyrians, That a Great Deliverer Would Appear, About the Time of Our Lord's Advent, Demonstrated By the learned writer, quoted in the last note, who was equally versed in European and Asiatic, in sacred and profane literature, the descent of those nations who inhabited the tract between the Mediterranean Sea, and the remote borders of Persia; is traced from the atriarch Shem: Vid. Infr. P. 9. On this subject, may go consulted, after Jose bus and E iphanius, who were not unskilled in the language an learning 0 both continents, the learned Bochart, in his Geographia Sacra. Even from those writers who profess to draw their inferences, not from historical records, but from physical and philological principles, the deductions derived from the sacred annals receive the fullest confirmation. The reader will see their arguments succinctly stated by Fessler, Introd. In Ling. Orient. Sect. Viii. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.