says, Hence Moses, speaking of the land of Moab, 10 The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims : but the Moabites call them Emims, which also were accounted Giants. He mentions also the "Zuzims in the same light. This attack made upon the sons of Ham is taken notice of by Theophilus, who speaks of it as the first war upon " earth, and calls it the war of the Giants. Credenus assures us, that there were records in Egypt which confirmed the account given by Moses concerning these personages of so extraordinary stature; and that they particularly flourished about the times of "Abraham and Isaac. And he adds, τες ύπο Ἑλληνων Γίγαντας ονομαζόμενες, that "Ibid. c. 2. v. 20. Giants dwelt therein in old time, and the Ammonites called them Zanzummim. They were the same as the Zuzim. 12 * Ad Autolyc. 1. 2. p. 372. αύτη αρχη εγένετο πρωτη το γινεσθαι πολεμές επι της γης, και κατεκοψαν τις Γίγαντας, εν Καραναϊμ, και εθνη ισχυρα άμα αυτοίς, κλο 13 Ότι εν τοις χρόνοις Αβρααμ και Ισααν πολυσώματους ανθρώπους Αιγυπτιοι ἱσορασι γενέσθαι, τους ὑπο Ελληνων Γίγαντας ονομαζόμενες. p. 34. Artapanus mentions Abraham αναφέροντα εις τες Γίγαντας. Euseb. P. E. 1. 9. p. 420. Josephus also mentions, that this engagement of the four kings was, with some of the Titanic or Gigantic race, whom they defeated. Και κατέκοψαν τις απογονος των Γιγάντων. Αntig. 1. c. 9. p. 31. these were the people whom the Grecians called Giants. The most full account of the Titans and their defeat, is to be found in some of the Sibylline poetry. The Sibyls were Amonian priestesses; and were possessed of antient memorials, which had been for a long time deposited in the temples where they presided. A great part of those compositions, which go under their name, is not worth being mentioned. But there are some things curious and among these is part of an historical poem, to which I allude. It is undoubtedly a translation of an antient record, found by some Grecian in an Egyptian temple : and though the whole is not uniform, nor perhaps by the same hand, yet we may see in it some fragments of very curious history. 14 Αλλ' όποταν μεγαλοιο Θες τελεώνται απειλαί, 14 Sib. Orac. 1. 3. p- 223. Theoph. ad Autolyc. 1. 2. p. 371. 15 Αυτάρ επει πύργος τ' επεσε, γλώσσαιτ' ανθρώπων + Αυτη δ' εξ' αρχη πολεμε παντεσσι βροτοισι But when the judgments of the almighty God 35 Scilicet Γηγενεις, Ουρανιώνας, Ηλιαδας. Τουτῳ δε β.φ.δ. τει Νω ε διέθετο, και την οικεμένην τοις τρισιν αυτό ύτοις διεμέρισε. Syncellus. p. 80. Were ripe for execution; when the Tower 'Twas the tenth age successive, since the Ruin'd the former world: when foremost far Amid the tribes of their descendants stood 16 Cronus, and Titan, and Iäpetus, 16 From a common notion, that läpetus was Japhet, this name is assigned to one of the three brothers: and the two others are distinguished by the names of Cronus, and Titan. Lut they are all three indeterminate titles. Jäpetus was a Titanian; ad is mentioned as such by Diodorus. 1. 5. p. 334. He was one of Offspring of Heaven, and Earth: hence in re turn For their superior excellence they shar'd High titles, taken both from Earth and Heaven. Had bound them by an " oath and each well knew That all was done in equity, and truth. But soon the man of justice left the world, Matur'd by time, and full of years. He died: the brood, which was banished to Tartarus, and condemned to darkness; ἱν' Ιαπετος τε Κρονος το Ημενοι στ' αυγης Υπερίονος Ηελίοιο Τερποντ', στ' ανεμοισι· βαθυς δε τε Τάρταρος αμφις. Homer. Iliad. . v. 478. He is also mentioned as an earth-born Giant; one of the prime apostates. Tum partu Terra nefando Cœumque, Iäpetumque creat, sævumque Typhæa, Et conjuratos cœlum rescindere fratres. Virgil. Georg. l. 1. v. 279. The history of Iäpetus has no relation to Japhet. Iameros is Tw TIT. Schol. in Honer. supra. Iapetus was one of the Giants, 17 See Eusebii Chron. p. 10. 1. 38. |