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Post by Lee on Jan 7, 2017 15:37:17 GMT
“Cush begat Nimrod.” Nimrod founded the first kingdom that existed after the flood. It commenced with four cities in the land of Shinar, the principal of which was Babel, afterwards styled Babylon. “Out of the land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh,” on the Tigris or Hiddekel: “The same,” says Moses, “is a great city.” The land of Shinar thus became the land of Cush; whose original stock ruled the countries afterwards styled Mesopotamia and Babylonia. Cushan-Rishathaim was the Cushite sovereign who first subjected Israel after the death of Joshua. “The tents of Cushan” thus extended from beyond Nineveh to Midian on the Red Sea; but Cush proper, as pertaining to the Kingdom of Nimrod, is the country between Persia, Arabia, and the Holy Land.
1892 Christadelphian, 29(electronic ed.), 45.
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Post by Lee on Jan 7, 2017 15:59:16 GMT
The word "Shinar" is derived from the nouns shain, "tooth," and ur, "enemy." It means, therefore, "Enemy's Tooth"; as Shinab signifies "Father's Tooth." Hence the phrase eretz Shinar, means "the Land of the Enemy's Tooth."
This was a very appropriate appellation for the region into which the Harlot of the Ephah was to be transplanted and to acquire a house set up upon the foundation of her own wickedness.
THE LAND OF SHINAR
We make out "the land of Shinar" to mean the whole apocalyptic earth, upon the same principle that the apocalyptical "great city," Babylon, is styled "Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified." He was crucified at Sodom and in Egypt. Jerusalem is styled Sodom in Isaiah 1:10, because the moral character of her people had become Sodomitish. She was, therefore, "spiritually called" Sodom. For the same reason Antichristendom is called Sodom and Egypt, and our Lord is said to have been crucified there, because Palestine and Egypt are provinces of the Fourth Beast dominion, and Jerusalem one of its cities, in which, also, "his body, the church" the mystical Christ, has been crucified, and the character of the city and province being fitly representative of the system that has prevailed against the saints, their names have been extended over it, and the great city is called Sodom and Egypt. This is the spiritual.
Now apply this principle to "the land of Shinar." The literal Shinar was the arena of Nimrod's exploits after the confusion of tongues. Jehovah made use of them to scatter the people because of their wickedness, because it was great. The wickedness of the spiritual "Sodom and Egypt, where our Lord was crucified," and the confusion of tongues that prevails there, philologically and doctrinally, is like to that in the literal Shinar in the beginning; therefore, in the apocalyptic style, the territory of the dominion of Antichrist is "spiritually called," in Zechariah, "the land of Shinar."
Herald, 1858
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