Online Bible 1995 March/ROM-1025.iso/olb/gill/6_100.lzh/6_157.TXT

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and Mr. Norden Gize: and there shall ~ no more
a prince of the loud of Egypt; that is, a native of that
country; or that should rule over the whole of it, and
in that grandeur the kings of Egypt had before; or,
however, not dwell in Memphis, which was the seat
of the kings of Egypt, but now should. be so no more:
when Egypt was conquered by Nebuchadnezzar, it
was under the Babyloninns; and then under the Per-
sians.; and then under the Greeks; and afterwards
under the Romans; since under the Saracens and Ma-
malucks| and now in the hands of the Turks; so that
it never recovered its former glory; and indeed, after
Nectanebus was driven out of it by Ochus, king of
Persia, it never after had, a king: and I will put a fear.
in all the land of Egypt; a panic in all the inhabitants
of it; as soon as they shall hear. of the king of Babylon
entering. into it, their courage, bravery, and fortitude,
shall at once leave them., and they shall be dispirited,
and have no heart to defend themselves, and oppose
the enemy.
Ver. 14..4rid I will make Pathro$ desolate, &c.] A
country in Egypt; see the note on ch. xxix. 14. per-
haps it was the first place that Nebuchadnezzar en-
tered, and so went from place to place in the order
hereafter mentioned: and I will set five in Zoan ; or
Tunis, a famous city in Egypt in the times of Moses,
Numb. xiii. 22. Paul. Ixxviii. 12, 43. The Targum
and Septuagint version call it Tanis. here; and from
hence a home in Egypt was called the Tanitic home.
This city was burnt down by the king of Babylon:
the place now built on the spot is called Mansourah,
as Dr. Shaw" says: and I will execute judgment in Aro.
The Vulgate Latin version renders it Alexandria; and
so does the Targum; of which place Jarchi, Kimchi,
and Ben Melech interpret it; and so does Jerom; which,
though built after these times by Alexander, and called
so after his name, yet is supposed to be built on or
near the place where ancient No stood. The city is
now called Standcroon, or Scanderea; the Turks
calling Alexander Scantier: here the judgments of
God were executed in the destruction of it by the
Chaldean army; and. great devastations have been
made in it since it was rebuilt by Alexander, by the
Saratens, who destroyed all places where they came;
so that, as Dr. Shaw{k} observes, it is somewhat extra-
ordinary that the greatest part of the ancient walls,
together with their respective turrets, should have
continued entire quite down to this time. The Sep-
tuagint version calls it Diospolis, or the city of Ju-
piter, as does the Arabic version, that is, of Jupiter
Hammon ;-the city of Thebes, where he was wor-
shipped; as it is in a following verse called Hammon
No; though Hilleras {y} thinks neither of these places are
meant, neither Alexandria nor Diospolis; but Mem-
phis, as it is rendered by the Septuagint in the next
verse; see the note on- Nah, iii. 8;
Ver. 15. And I will pour out my fury upon Sin, the
strength of Egypt, &c.] Either the city Sais, as the
Septuagint and Arabic versions; or rather Pelusium,
as the Vulgate Latin version,-so called-from pdoh
which signifies Clay in. the Greek language; and the
same Sin signifies in the Chaldee, Psal.'xviii. 43. and
as now called Tmeh, from \^Nyj\^, clay: it had a very fine
haven, and may be called the strength of Egypt, it
at the entrance of it; and having. a strong forti-
tower, it was difficult to enter into it; but c, ould
not stand before the wrath and fury of the Lord of
hosts, when he sent the Chaldeans to it.- It is thought
by some to be the same with Pithore, built by the first
the pastor-kings of Egypt, and fortitled by him,
xod. i. i 1. according. to Manetho{z}, he put into it a
garrison of two hundred and forty thousand men; and
the same writer says it contained ten thousand acres
of land; according" to Adrichomius{a}, it was twenty
furlongs in compass, and near it was a--vast hollow,
which extended to Mount CasSius, and which made
the way into Egypt on that side difficult; and is now,
as he says, called campus de Gallo; in which he is
mistaken, as well as Therenot, and others, who take it
to be the same with. Dam lets: a,d. ! will cut off the mul-
titude of No; the numerous inhabitants of it; hence
called populous No, Nah. iii. 8. or Hamon No; see
the note on ver. 14. here, as before observed, the Sep-
tungjut version renders it Memphis; as does also the
Arabic version. Some take it, as before, to be. the
Egyptian Thebes, where was a temple dedicated to
Jupiter Hammon; and wl. fich city, Pausaniasb says.
was reduced to nothing in his time.
Ver. 16. And I will set fire in Egypt, &C.] Kindle
a war there, which shall consume it; see ver. 8:
shall have great pain; as a woman in travail, seeing its
destruction is just at hand; the same with Pelusium,
as before: and No shah be rent asunder,; the walls of
it shall be broken down bv the enemy, or a breach shal|-
be made in it, like the breach of waters which were
about it; see Nah. iii. 8 :-and Noph shall have dis-.
tresses daily : that is, Memphis, as before; enemies
shall surround it daily, as the Targum; shall besiege.
and distress it, until it is taken: or, in the day-time;
their enemies should not come as thieves in the night,
openly in the day. Abendana interprets it of
unfortunate day, their star be:rag unlucky.
Ver. 17.. The young men of Aven a.nd of Phi-beseth
shall fall by the sword, &c.] Aven is the same with
On, of which Poti--pherah was prose in Joseph's time.
and whose daughter he married, Gcn. xli. 45. the Same
with Hellopolls, or Beth-shemesh, the city of the sun,
Jer. xliii. 13. see the note there; where was. the temple
of the sun, a.nd where it was worshipped; and so it i$
rendered by the Septuagint, VulgateLatin, an& Arabic.
versions. It is called here Aven, or vanity, because of
the vain and idolatrous worship here performed. Phi-.
beseth is the Bubastis of Herodotus, arid called
other writers Bubastus; hence there was a home or.
province in Egypt called the Bubastic name, mentioned
by Ptolemy {c}, and- others. I,n this was a temple built
to the honour of Diana, where she was worshipped
and Herodotus d says, that Bubastis, in the Greek

{w} Travels, p. 304. Ed. 2.
{x} Idem, p. 292.
{y} Onomastic. Sacr. p. 571, &c.
{z} Apud Joseph. contr. Apion. I. 1.c. 14.
{a} Theatrum Terrae Sanctae, p. 122, 123.
{b} Arcadica, sive I. 8. p. 509. Vid. Juvenal. Satyr. 15. ver. 6.
{c} Geograph. I. 4. c. 5.
{d} Euterpes. sive, I. 2. c. 59, 138, 156.