...the Assyrian empire are finely described by the prophet Ezekiel, under the similitude of a tree. " Behold, the " Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a PART I. their dominion from the borders of Egypt, i the frontiers of India. In the prosecution of these...

...his multitude ; Whom art thou like in thy greatness ? thou thinkest no prince equal to 3 thyself, but Behold, the Assyrian [was] a cedar in Lebanon with...high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs ; it overtopped the most flourishing trees, it exceeded all other king4 dome. The waters made him great,...

...cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and he? daughters shall go into captivity. XXXI. 3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair...high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. Behold, the king of Assyria was a greater monarch than thyself: he was, in comparison of thee, as a...

...? Think not, that no king is comparable to thee, in power and greatnessXXXI. 3 Behold, the Assyinan was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high statare ; and his top was among the thick boughs. Behold, the king of Assyria was a greater monarch...

...Assyria being also a representative symbol of rationality. Of the former state it is written — " Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs. The waters made...

...king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness? 3 Behold, the Assyrian wan a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a...stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs. 4 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants,...

...empire, under the splendid and majestic imagery afforded by vegetation in its most flourishing state : " The Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon, with fair "-branches,...stature, and his top was among the thick " boughs. The waters made him great, the deep set " him up on high, with her rivers running round " about his...

...APJ 4102 This prophecy delivered by Ezekiel, - - 4126 Egypt subdued by Nebuchadnezzar, - - 4143 — " with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and...high stature, and his top was among the thick boughs ;" rather, " fair in shoots, and thick in an overshadowing top, and tall in stem, and his topmost shoot...

...appeared to bear witness, in the Through the portals which they guarded, words of the prophet, that one* " the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs bis height was exalted above all the trees...

...power would vanish away. Under the same emblem Ezekiel ( xxxi. 3 — 6 ) describes the Assyrian empire. "Behold the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches and with a shadow ing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs. — His height...