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A89453	The hope of Israel: written by Menasseh ben Israel, a Hebrew divine, and philosopher. Newly extant, and printed in Amsterdam, and dedicated by the author to the High Court, the Parliament of England, and to the Councell of State. Translated into English, and published by authority. In this treatise is shewed the place wherein the ten tribes at this present are, proved partly by the strange relation of one Anthony Montezinus, a Jew, of what befell him as he travelled over the Mountaines Cordillære, with divers other particulars about the restoration of the Jewes, and the time when.; Miḳṿeh Yiśraʼel. English	Manasseh ben Israel, 1604-1657.; Wall, Moses.	1650 (1650)	Wing M375; Thomason E1350_3; ESTC R18014	43,634	105

their place perhaps to suffer new miseries and calamities Beside we do not read that Cyrus gave leave to any to return but onely to the two Tribes of Juda and Benjamin And also it is probable as some Authors affirm that they could not go up from thence because they had continually wars with the neighbour people SECT XXIII HItherto we have ihewed that the ten Tribes are in divers places as in the West-Indies in Sina in the confines of Tartary beyond the river Sabbathion and Euphrates in Media in the kingdom of the Habyssins of all which the Prophet Isaiah is to be understood in Isa 11.11 It shall come to passe in that day that the Lord shall set his hand the second time to recover the remnant of his people which shall be left from Assyria from Egypt from Pathros from Ethiopia from Elam from Sinear from Hamath and from the Islands of the Sea From whence you may gather that it is meant of those places where the ten Tribes dwell Syria and Egypt shall be the two places of their generall meeting as more fully hereafter Pathros is not Pelusium nor Petra but Parthia neer to the Caspian Sea where I think with many others the Sabbaticall river is Although there is a Pathros in Egypt as the learned Samuel Bochardus saith in his holy Geography Chus according to common opinion is Ethiopia as is proved out of Ier. 13.23 and in this place of Ieremy are meant the Israelites who live in the Countrey of the Abyssins Elam is a Province in Persia as it appears in Dan. 8.2 where are desert places in which perhaps the remnant of the ten Tribes is Shinar is a Province about Babylon as in Gen. 10.10 where Babel is said to be in Shinar and Dan. 1.2 it is said that Nebuchadnezzar carried the holy vessels to the land of Shinar Hamath there are many Hamaths mentioned in the Scripture many understand it of Antioch but because Geographers reckon up 12. places named Antioch therefore we can affirm nothing for certain but I think that that is meant which is placed in Scythia The seventy Interpreters by Hamath understand the Sun from Hamath the Sun and they translate it From the rising of the Sun and I think it is no ill translation for hereby all the Israelites who are in greater Asia India and Sina may be understood The Islands of the Sea so almost all translate it but I think it is to be rendred The Islands of the West for I am in holy Scripture signifies The West as in Gen. 28.14 and in many other places and upon this account those Israelites are implyed who are Westward from the Holy Land among whom the Americans are SECT XXIIII THe Prophet adds in Isa 11.12 And he shall set up a sign for the Nations and he shall assemble the out-casts-of Israel and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the foure quarters of the earth Where he notes two things 1. that he cals the Israelites out-casts but the Jews scattered and the reason is because the ten Tribes are not onely far off from the Holy Land but also they live in the extremities and ends of Countreys from whence the Prophet cals them cast out But he doth not say that the Israelites are to be gathered from the foure quarters of the earth because they are not so dispersed through the world as the Tribe of Judah is which now hath synagogues not onely in three parts of the world but also in America The Prophet adds in v. 13. The envy also of Ephraim shall depart and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off For then there shall be no contention between Judah and the 10. Tribes which are comprehended under the name Ephraim because their first King Jeroboam was of that Tribe And then as it is in Ezek. 37.22 One King shall be King over them all and they shall be no more two Nations neither shall they be divided any more into two kingdoms There shall be one King to them both of the family of David Also the Lord at the redemption will drie up Nilus and Euphrates and will divide it into seven streames answerable to his drying up the red Sea when they came out of Egypt perhaps that the seven Tribes which are in those parts may go over it as they passe into their Countrey as Isaiah saith in ch 27.12 13. And it shall be in that day and he shall shake off from the bank of the river some understand Euphrates unto the river of Egypt Nilus and ye O children of Israel shall be gothered one by one Which was never done in the captivity of Babylon The Prophet Isaiah saith in chap. 11.11 that he will return them the second time c. Now the redemption from Babylon cannot be called such an one because all of them were not brought back to their Countey But the redemption shall be universal to all the tribes as it was when they went out of Egypt which redemption shall be like the first in many things as I shew in the third part of my Reconciler and so it may be called the second in reference to that first from Aegypt Whence Ieremiah saith Chap. 23.7 8. That then it shall not be said He that brought Israel out of Egypt but from the North and from all countreys whither he had driven them That they shall not mention their departure from Aegypt for the cause fore-mentioned SECT XXV THe same Prophet sc Isa 43.5 6. saith I will bring thy seed from the East and will gather thee from the West I will say to the North Give up and to the South Keep not back bring my sons from far and my daughters from the ends of the earth For Media Persia and China lye on the East Tartary and Scythia on the North the kingdom of the Abyssins on the South Europe on the West from the Holy Land But when he saith Bring ye my sons from far he understands America so that in those verses he understands all those places in which the Tribes are detained Also in Chap. 49. from ver 7. to the end of the Chapter he saith that that return shall be most happy And in ch 56. ver 8. God saith He that gathers the out-casts of Israel And the Prophet Ieremiah in ch 33. ver 16. In those days shall Iudah be saved and Ierusalem shall dwell safely It is certain and Ierom assents to all our Authors that when Iudah is joyned with Israel by Israel the ten Tribes are meant The same addes in ch 31. ver 15. in the comforting of Rahel who wept for the carrying away her sons Ioseph and Benjamin the first by Salmaneser into Assyria the last by Nebuchadnezzar into Babylon he saith in ver 16. Refrain thy voice from weeping and thine eyes from tears for thy work shall be rewarded And it follows in Cha. 33. ver 7. And I will cause the captivity of Iudah and the captivity of Israel to return and I

I shall not insist in confuting their opinions because I study brevity I doe like of in part the opinion of the Spaniards who dwell in the Indies who by common consent doe affirme that the Indians come of the 10. Tribes And truly they are not altogether mistaken because in my opinion they were the first planters of the Indies as also other people of the East-Indies came by that Streight which is betweene India and the Kingdome of Anian But that people according to our Montezinus made warre upon those Inhabitants the Isralites whom they forced up unto the mountaines and the in-land countries as formerly the Brittaines were driven by the Saxons into Wales SECT 3. THe first ground of that opinion is taken from 2 Esdras 13. v. 40. c which we quote as ancient though it be Apocryphall where it 's said that the 10. Tribes which Salmanaster carried captive in the raigne of Hoseas beyond Euphrates determined to goe into countries farre remote in which none dwelt whereby they might the better observe their law And as they passed over some branches of Euphrates God wrought miracles stopping the course of the Flood till they had passed over and that country is called Arsareth From whence we may gather that the 10. Tribes went to New-Spaine and Peru and possessed those 2 Kingdomes till then without Inhabitants Genebrardus quoting Esdras concerning that wandring of the 10. Tribes saith that Arsareth is Tartaria the greater and from thence they went to Greenland because that America is lately found compassed with it and so it is to be on that side farther from Sea than it is upon other sides being almost an Iland and they might passe from Greenland by the Streight of Davis into the country Labrador which is now called India being 50. miles distant from thence as Gomeras saith in his History The same journying of the 10 Tribes into India is confirmed by that which P. Malvenda reports That Arsareth is that Promontry which is neare to Scythia or Tartary neare the Sea called by Pliny Tabis where America is parted from the country of Anian by a narrow Sea which also on that side parts China or Tartary from America so that there might be an easie passage for the 10. Tribes through Arsareth or Tartary into the Kingdomes of Anian and Quivira which in time might plant the new world and firme land which in bignesse equals Europe Asia and Africa put together Alonsus Augustinianus counting from the shoare of the north Sea from the country of Labrador 3928. miles and from Sur 3000. miles but Gomaras counts from India by the South and Sur 9300. miles which space is big enough for the 10. Tribes that they may there spread in places hitherto unknowne SECT 4. HE strengthens this opinion that in the isle S. Michael which belongs to the Azores the Spaniards found Sepulchres under ground with very ancient Hebrew letters which Genebrardus hath Printed in lib. 1. chro p. 159. From whence we gather that in that inscription there is a mistake of the Letter T so that the sense of it is How perfect is God Sehalbin is dead Know God Unless you will have them to be proper Names and to signifie him that is dead and his Father in which sense for M you must read B and then the sense will be Meetabel seal the Son of Matadel such names ending in el are common in Scripture as Raphael Immanuel and the like Let it suffice him who is pleased with neither of those conjectures that Hebrew Letters were found there And though that Iland is remote from the West-Indies yet it might be by accident that they might put in thither SECT 5. THat seems to be to the purpese which Garcillasse de la Voga saith in his Comment on Peru lib. 3. c. 1. That in Tiahuanacis a Province of Collai among other Antiquities this is worthy of memory being scituated at the Lake which the Spaniards call Chutuytu That among the great buildings which are there one was to be seen of a very great pile which hath a Court 15 fathoms broad a wall that compasseth it 2 furlongs high on one side of the Court is a Chamber 45 foot long and 22 broad and the Court the Wall the Pavement the Chamber the Roofe of it the entrance the posts of the 2 gates of the Chamber and of the entrance are made onely of one stone the three sides of the Wall are an ell thick the Indians say that that House is dedicated to the Maker of the World I conjecture that building to be a Synagogue built by the Israelites for the Authors who writ about the Indies tell us that the Indians never use iron or iron weapons Also the Indians were Idolaters and therefore it could not be that they should build an house to God P. Acosta in lib. 6. Ind. histor c. 14. mentions such buildings as are in that place and he reports that he mesured a stone which was 38 foot long 18 foot broad and 6 foot thick Petrus Cieza in his first part of his Chonicles of Peru c. 87. relates That in the City Guamanga which is situated by the river Vinaque there is a vast building which because then it seemed almost ruined by time it therefore had lasted many yeares He asking the neighbouring Indians Who built that great Pile he learnt that it was made by a people who were bearded and white as the Spaniards who came thither a long time before and staid some time after the Indians raigned there and the Indians said that they had received it from their Fathers by Tradition The same Cieza cap. 10 5. of the Antiquity of Tiguanac saith that what the Indians boa●t to be very ancient can by no meanes be compared with that Ancient buildings and other things From all which you may well gather that the first inhabitants of that place were the Israelites of the 10 Tribes because they were white and bearded SECT 6. TO this opinion adde an argument taken from what Logicians call à simili for he that will compare the Lawes and Customes of the Indians and Hebrews together shall finde them agree in many things whence you may easily gather That the Indians borrowed those of the Hebrews who lived among them before or after they went to the unknown mountaines The Indians of Jucatan and the Acuzainitenses do circumeise themselves The Totones of New Spain and Mexicans as Roman and Gomaza in the generall history of the Indians testifie rend their garments if their happen any sudden misfortune or the death of any Gregorius Garcias in Monarchia Ingasonum an Isle of Peru saith that Guainacapacus hearing that his son Atagualpa sled for feare of the army of his enemy he rent his garments The Mexicans and Totones or the Totonacazenses kept continually fire upon their altars as God commands in Leviticus Those of Peru do the same in their Temples dedicated to the Sun The Nicaraguazenses do forbid their women who were

first to bring their sons from far their silver and their gold with them Jer. 31.10 Hear the word of the Lord O ye nations and declare it in the isles afar off and say He that scattered Israel will gather him Psal 97.1 The Lord reigneth let the earth rejoyce and the multitude of isles be glad Where part of the ten Tribes do dwell unknown to this day SECT XV. YOu must know that all the ten Tribes were not carried away at the same time Pul the King of Assyria as I shew in the 2d part of my Reconciler conquered and carried away the Tribes of Reuben Gad and half Manasseh in the reign of Peka as you may see in 1 Chron 5.26 and Josephus in li. 9. c. 11. Tiglah-pileser 8. yeers after took Ijon Abel-beth-maachah Hazor Gilead Galilee all the land of Naphtali and he carried away all the captives into Assyria in 2 King 15.29 At last Shalmaneser king of Assyria nine yeers after in the reign of Hoshea the son of Elah besieged Samaria three yeers which being taken he carried away Hoshea with the rest of the Tribes in 2 King 17.6 Of those three times the Prophet Isaiah speaks Isa 9.1 saying the first captivity was gentle if you compare it with the last which was grievous and unsufferable when the kingdom and Monarchy of Israel ceased SECT XVI THe ten Tribes being conquered at severall times we must think they were carried into severall places As we beleeve they went to the West-Indies by the strait of Anian so we think that out of Tartary they went to China by that famous wall in the confines of both Our argument to prove it is taken from the authority of two Jesuites who erected their Colledges in those Countreys Nicolaus Trigantius a Dutch-man in his discourse of the Christian expedition undertaken by the Jesuites to Sina saith We finde that in former time the Jews came into these kingdoms And when that society had for some yeers seated it self in the Court of the Pequinenses a certain Jew came to P. Matthaeus Riccius he was born in Chamfamfu the metropolis of the Province Honan and was surnamed Ngay and now being licensed to the degree of Doctor he went to Pequin But when he read in a certain book writ by a Doctor of China concerning the European affairs That our fathers are not Saracens and know no God but the Lord of heaven and earth and would perswade himself that ours did professe the Law of Moses he went into the Church with P. Matthaeus Riccius On an altar there was the effigies of the Virgin Mary and the childe Jesus whom St. John his fore-runner worshipped with bended knees now that day was the holy-day of John the Baptist The Jew thinking it was the effigies of Rebecca and her two sons Jacob and Esau he bowed also to the Image but with this apology that he worshipped no Images but that he could not but honour these who were the parents of our Nation And he asking if the foure Evangelists on both sides of the altar were not foure of the twelue sons of Jacob the Jesuite answered Yes thinking he had asked of the 12. Apostles But afterward the Jew acknowledged to the Jesuite that he was an Israelite and he found the Kings Bible and acknowledged the Hebrew letters though he could not read them By this occasion our people learnt that ten or twelve families of Israelites were there and had built a very neat Synagogue which cost 10000. crowns in which they have kept the five books of Moses with great veneration for 600. yeers He also affirmed that in Hamcheu the metropolis of the Province Chequiona there are far more families with a synagogue and elsewhere that many families live without a synagogue because that by little and little they are extinguished He relating many things out of the old Testament he differed but little in pronouncing those names He said that some among them were not ignorant of the Hebrew tongue but that himself had neglected it having studied the China tongue from a childe For which cause he was counted almost unworthy of their societie by the ruler of the synagogue But he chiefly looked after this that he might get to be Doctor Three yeers after P. Matthaeus Riccius sent one of our brethren to that metropolis who found all those things true He compared the beginnings and endings of the books which the Jews keep in their synagogue with our Pentateuch and saw no difference this onely that those had no pricks The other Jesuite is Alfonsus Cimedro who likewise saith that there is a great number of Jews in the Province of Oroensis on the West part of China who know nothing of the coming and suffering of Jesus And he from thence gathers that they are of the ten Tribes which opinion I also am of because those Chineses observe many Jewish rites which you may see in a manuscript which the noble Jaochimus Wicofortius hath And why might not some of them sail from China to New-Spaine through the Streight between China and Anian and Quivira which do border upon New-Spain and from thence they went to the Isles of Panama Peru and those thereabout These in my judgement are those Chineses of whom Isaiah speaks Chap. 49. ver 12. treating about Israels return to his countrey Behold these shall come from afar and these from the North and from the West and these from the land of Sinim And so Ptolomy in lib 7. c. 3. tab 11. cals it The countrey of Sinim or Sina and this is the true sense of the words Aben Ezra therefore is mistaken who derives it of Sene a bush or wood which he placeth in Aegypt SECT XVII I Could easily believe that the 10. Tribes as they increased in number so they spread into more Provinces before-mentioned and into Tartary For Abraham Ortelius in his Geography of the world and map of Tartary he notes the place of the Danites which he calls the Hord which is the same which the Hebrew Jerida signifying A descent And lower he mentions the Hord of Naphtali possessed by Peroza in the year 476. Schikhardus in his Tarich or series of the Kings of Persia amplifies the history of this war where ex lib. 4. of Agathias he thus saith A little after when they were eased of that plague sc 7. years drought in the time of the Emperour Zeno Firuz made a double war with Naphtali in which at last he was destroyed For first of all he was brought to the streights of places unknown who then sought for peace upon this condition and obtained it that he should swear that he would never after provoke them and that he should do reverence to this Conquerer in token of subjection which afterward by the counsell of the Magicians he performed craftily for he bowed towards the Eastern Sun that his own people might think that he bowed rather to the Sun after his Countrey custome then to honour his Enemy But

same saith that it was told him of an hour-glasse filled with the sand of Sabbathion which ran all the week till the Sabbath And I heard the same from my father which testimony I account as good as if I saw it my self for fathers do not use to impose upon their sons He told me that there was an Arabian at Lisborn who had such an hour-glasse and that every Friday at evening he would walk in the street called the new street and shew this glasse to Jews who counterfeited Christianity and say Ye Jews shut up your shops for now the Sabbath comes Another worthy of credit told me of another hour-glasse which he had some years before before the port Mysketa He saw him by chance or the Judge of the place passing that way from Cadez and being asked what he was he commanded him to be taken away rebuking the Mahometans that by this mean they did confirm the Jewish Sabbath I should not speak of these glasses if the authority of such a man whom I have alledged did not move me though I beleeve that God did not onely work that miracle that he might keep part of the 10. Tribes there but other also as you may see in Esdras R. Moses Gerundensis a learned Cabalist and Interpreter of the Law in Parasa Aazinu thinks the river Sabbathion to be the same with Gozan of Guz which signifies to snatch away because except the 7th day on all the other it carries with it by its swiftnesse the very stones Of this there is mention in 2 King whither the King of Assyria led his captives and so relates Benjamin Tudelensis in his journall that part of the 10 Tribes dwelt at the bank of that River But I know not where the river G●zan is In the yeer 5394. that is 15 years agon in the City Lubin two Polonians after they had travelled long they wrot in Ducht a book of the originall of the Sabbaticall river but the Senate commanded it to be burnt at the Mart of Breslaw by the perswasion of the Jesuites Abraham Frisal in his Orchot Olam c. 26. will have this river to be in India he saith The head of the Sabbaticall river is in the countrey of Vpper India among the rivers of Ganges And a little after The sabbaticall river hath its originall from the other side of Kalikout which lies far above the bound of Lamik which he placeth beyond the sinus Barbaricus and it parts the Indians from the kingdom of the Jews which river you may certainly finde there Though he takes Gozan for Ganges for some nearnesse of writing yet it s not to be doubted that in that place there are many Jews witnesse Joannes de Bairos in his Decads Eldad Danita speaking of the 4. Tribes which he placeth at Gozan saith The Sabbaticall river is among them Josephus saith that Titus saw the sabbathion between Arca and Raphanea Which testimony seems the truer because it s not to be thought that Josephus would tella lie of him by whom be might be rebuked I think that ye must look for it not far from the Caspian Sea I am not alone in this opinion What ever it be it appears that this river is somewhere and that part of the 10. Tribes are hid there and I may say with Moses in Deut. 29.28 29. And the Lord cast them out of their land in anger and in wrath Secret things belong to the Lord our God For it is not known when they shall return to their Countrey neither can it perfectly be shewed where they are God suffering it as it s said in Deut. 32.26 I determined to cast them forth unto the ends of the earth and to make their remembrance cease from among men As if he should say I will cast them unto the farthest places of the world that none may remember them and therfore they are truly in Scripture called imprisoned and lost SECT XXI NEither is there weight in the argument which some have brought to me if they be in the world why do we not know them better There are many things which we know and yet know not their originall are we not to this day ignorant of the heads of the foure Rivers Nilus Ganges Euphrates and Tigris also there are many unknown Countreys Beside though some live in known and neighbour Countreys yet they are unknown by being behinde mountains so it happened under the reign of Ferdinand and Isabel that some Spaniards were found out by accident at Batueca belonging to the Duke of Alva which place is distant but 10. miles from Salamanca and neer to Placentia whither some Spaniards fled when the Moores possessed Spaine and dwelt there 800. years If therefore a people could lye hid so long in the middle of Spaine why may we not say that those are hid whom God will not have any perfectly to know before the end of daies And these things we have gathered concerning the habitations of the ten Tribes who we beleeve do still keep the Jewish rites as in 2 King 17.26 when the Israelites were carried captive by Salmaneser and those of Cuthah came in their stead an Israelitish Priest was sent by the King to teach them because Lions infested them for that they were ignorant that there was another worship used in the land but when the Priest saw that it was impossible to take that people wholly off from idolatry he permitted them to worship divers gods so that they would acknowledge one to be the mover of all things The same is also sufficiently proved out of all the Histories which we have alleaged And our brethren do keep the Law more zealously out of their land than in it as being neither ambitious nor contentious which hath sometimes hapned with the family of David by which means they might easily erre in the true Religion not acknowledge Jerusalem and withdraw that obedience which is due to the Lord and to his Temple SECT XXII VVE learn out of the first of Ezra that none of the 10. Tribes entred the second Temple for it is said that only some of the Tribe of Judah and some of Benjamin did return Ezra also saith the same in the 1 of Chronicles that Salmaneser carried the 10. Tribes to Hala Habor and Hara and to the river Gozan to this day so that you may gather that at that time they were there So likewise Josephus in Antiq. Jud. lib. 11. c. 5. Perhaps some will say since Media and Persia are near to Bahylon why did they not return to Jerusalem with the two Tribes I answer because so few of the 2. neighbouring Tribes did return from thence to Ierusalem for that they were well seated in Babylon or else because they heard the Prophets say that they must not look for any redemption but that which was to be at the end of daies How then can we think that they who were more remote and also had learnt the same things of the Prophets should leave

wil build them up as at the first Ezekiel saith the same in Chap. 34.13 and in Chap. 37.16 under the figure of two sticks on which were written the names of Iudah and Ephraim by which he proves the gathering together of the twelve Tribes to be subject to Messiah the Son of David in ver 22. he saith And one king shall be King to them all according as Hosea saith in Chap. 2. So also saith Amos in ch 9. ver 14 15. And I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and they shall build the waste cities and inhabite them and they shall plant vineyards and drink the wine thereof they shall make gardens and eat the fruit of them And they shall he no more pulled up out of their land which I have given them saith the Lord thy God So also Mica in ch 2.12 I will surely assemble O Jacob all of thee I will gather the remnant of Israel I will also place him as the flack in the sheep-fold For that in the captivity of Babylon all were not gathered together The Prophet Zechariah in ch 8.7 and in ch 10.6 and all the rest of the Prophets do witnesse the same thing SECT XXVI BUt which way that redemption shall be no man can tell but onely so far as we may gather out of the Prophets That at that time the ten Tribes shall come to Jerusalem under the leading of a Prince whom some Rabbins in the Talmud and in some places of the Chaldy paraphrase do call Messiah the son of Joseph and elsewhere Messiah the son of Ephraim who being slain in the last war of Gog and Magog shall shew himself to be Messiah the son of David who shall be as Ezekiel and Hosea say The everlasting Prince of all the twelve Tribes Our wise men do in many places especially in the Babylonian Talmud in tract suca c. 5. make mention of that Messiah the son of Ephraim where they say that he shall dye in the last war of Gog and Magog and they so expound that of Zach. 12.10 And they shall look upon me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his onely son They adde also that the foure captains of whom the same Prophet speaks in ch 11. are Messiah the son of David Messiah the son of Joseph the Prophet Elias and the high Priest which foure are those dignities which shall shew their power in that blessed age Observe that sometime they cal Messiah the son of Ephraim sometime of Joseph for he shall come out of the Tribe of Ephraim and shall be Captain of all the 10. Tribes who give their name to Ephraim because that their first King Jeroboam was of that Tribe Not without cause do they call him the son of Joseph for he was the true type of the house of Israel in his imprisonment and future happiness Add to this that he was so long hid from his brethren that they did not know him as in like manner the ten Tribes are at this day who are led captive but hereafter shall come to the top of felicity in the same manner as Joseph did That Messiah of Joseph shall dye in the battel of Gog and Magog and afterward shall rise again that he may enjoy the dignity not of a kingly Scepter but the office onely of a Vice-roy as Joseph in Egypt for that the Empire of the house of Israel fell under the reign of Hosea the son of Elah as the Prophet Amos saith in ch 5.2 Therefore the Kingdom of the 10. Tribes shall not be restored as Ezekiel saith in ch 37. under the reign of Messiah the son of David who shall be everlasting and by the death of Messiah the son of Joseph the 10. Tribes shall see that God will not that they should have more Kings then one As it s already spoken SECT XXVII THose Tribes then shal be gathered from all quarters of the earth into Countreys near to the Holy Land namely into Assyria and Egypt and from thence they shall go into their Countrey of which Isaiah speaks in ch 27.13 And it shall be in that day that the great trumpet shall be blown and they who were lost shall come into the land of Assyria and they who were cast out into Egypt and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Ierusalem As if he should say as trumpets sound to call any army together so they shall come together who were dead that is dispersed through all Asia into Assyria and the out-casts that is which are in America shall come by the Mediterranean Sea to Alexandria of Egypt and in the like manner those who are in Africa when Nilus shall be dried up and Euphrates shall be divided as we have already said And because the gathering together of the captivity shall begin at those who are in America therfore Isaiah saith The ilands shall trust in me and the ships of Tarsis that is of the ocean first of all that they may bring thy sons from far and with them their silver and gold They shall then come with speed from those countreys prostrating themselves at the mountain of the Lord in Jerusalem as the Prophet Hosea saith of that redemption in ch 11.11 They shall come as birds out of Egypt and as doves out of Assyria so saith Isaiah in ch 60.8 Who are those that flye as a cloud and as doves to their nests They which come first shall also partake of this joy to see others to come to them every moment for which cause the same Prophet saith Lift up thine eyes round about and behold them who gather themselves to thee And because the two Countreys of Assyria and Egypt shall first of all kindly receive the people of Israel and shall know the truth first of all embracing the Religion of the Jews sacrificing and praying to God therfore the Peophet Isaiah saith in ch 19.25 Blessed be Egypt my people and Assyria the work of my hands but Israel is my inheritance For so those words are to be understood SECT XXVIII ALL those are the sayings of the holy Prophets from whence doth appear the return of Israel into their countrey It is given to none to know the time thereof neither it is revealed to Rabbi Simeon ben Johay the Author of the Zoar because that God hath reserved that mystery to himself as Moses saith It is hid with me And Isaiah in ch 63.4 For the day of vengeance is in my heart and the yeer in which the redemption shall come Which the Rabbins thus interpret I have reveiled it to my heart and not to Angels and elswhere If any man tels you when Messiah shall come believe him not So also the Angel saith to Daniel ch 12 9. All things are closed up and sealed to the time of the end Therefore all those who search after that time as Rabbi Seadiah Moses Egyptius M●ses Gerundensis Selomoh Jarchi Abraham bar Ribi Hijah Abraham Zaculo

on his wedding-day being 17. years old His daughter being Heir of the Kingdom and of her fathers hatred would not marry to Emanuel king of Portugal unlesse he would compell us to be banished and change our Religion But she dyed in child-birth of her son Saragoci and also her son before he was half a yeer old and the succession was devolved upon the Kingdom of Spaine It is not long since that the Spaniards exercised upon us at Mantua what ever cruelties they could invent what shall we say of that that at Madrid in the yeer 1632. was done by the Inquisition the King and Princes of the Kingdom concurring but in the very same month dyed the Infant Charles and their kingdom declined What wonder is it if God hath chastised divers kingdoms by sundrie wayes but of this I treat farther in my History of the Jews Let us conclude therefore that that good which God hath promised will shortly come since we see that we have suffered those evils which he hath threatned us with by the Prophets SECT XXXV 3 ly THe shortnesse of time when we beleeve our redemption shall appear is confirmed by this that the Lord hath promised that he will gather the two Tribes Judah and Benjamin out of the foure quarters of the world calling them Nephussim From whence you may gather that for the fulfilling of that they must be scattered through all the corners of the world as Daniel saith Dan. 12.7 And when the scattering of the holy people shall have an end all those things shall be fulfilled And this appears now to be done when as our Synagogues are found in America SECT XXXVI 4 ly TO these let us adde that which the same Prophet speaks in ch 12. ver 4. That knowledge shall be encreased for then the prophecies shall better be understood the meaning of which we can scarce attain to till they be fulfilled So after the Ottoman race began to flourish we understood the prophecie of the two legs of the Image of Nebuchadnezzar which is to be overthrown by the fifth Monarchy which shall be in the world So Jeremiah after he had handled in Chap. 30. the redemption of Israel and Judah and of the war of Gog and Magog of which Daniel also speaks in ch 12. when he treats of the Scepter of the Messiah the son of David of the ruine of the Nations of the restoration of Judah of holy Jerusalem and of the 3d Temple he addes in ver 24. The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return till he hath executed it and till he hath performed the intents of his heart in the latter daies ye shall understand it From whence follows what we have said that the time of redemption is at hand And because Jeremiah in that chapter makes an abridgment of all things that shall be therefore it is said in ver 2 Write thee all the words which I have spoken to thee in a book By this mean making the prophecie clearer by relating in a clear style what ever the Prophets had foretold imitating Moses the last words of whose song are Sing O ye Nations with his people in Deut 32.43 Also the last words which he spoke after that he had blessed the Tribes are these Happy art thou O Israel who is like to thee O people saved by the Lord who is the shield of thy help and the sword of thy excellency and thine enemies shall be found lyars to thee and thou shalt tread upon their high places in Deut. 33.29 From whence it appears that God will revenge the blood of Israel which hath been shed Joel confirms the same in ch 3.19 Egypt shall be a desolation and Fdom shall he a filthy desert for the violence and injury offered to the Jews and because they have shed innocent blood in their land And as they shall be punished by the just judgement of God who wish us evill so also God will give blessings upon them who favour us And those are the trees of the field which then shall rejoyce So God saith to Abraham in Gen. 12.3 I will blesse them who blesse thee and curse them that curse thee SECT XXXVII THese are the things which I could gather concerning this matter which hath not been heretofore handled from whence these consequences may be deduced 1. That the West-Indies were anciently inhabited by a part of the 10. Tribes which passed thither out of Tartary by the Streight of Anian 2. That the Tribes are not in any one place but in many because the Prophets have foretold their return shall be into their Countrey out of divers places Isaiah especially saith it shall be out of eight 3. That they did not return to the 2d Temple 4. That at this day they keep the Jewish Religion 5. That the prophecies concerning their return to their Countrey are of necessitie to be fulfilled 6. That from all coasts of the world they shall meet in those two places so Assyria and Egypt God preparing an easie pleasant way and abounding with all things as Isaiah saith Chap. 49. and from thence they shall flie to Jerusalem as birds to their nests 7. That their kingdom shall be no more divided but the twelve Tribes shall be joyned together under one Prince that is under Messiah the Son of David and that they shall never be driven out of their land SECT XXXVIII I Return to the relation of our Montezinus which I prefer before the opinions of all others as most true For that Peru should be derived from the name Ophir as Gulielmus Postellus Goropius in Ortelius Bozius de signis Eccles lib. 2. c. 3 Marinus in arcâ Noah P. Sa. in 3. Reg. Pomarius in his Lexicon and Possevinus lib. 2. Biblioth c. 8. do think cannot be proved as Pineda hath well observed in Job c. 28. p. 500. for we have said out of Garcilasso de la Vega that that name was unknown to them of Peru. Ophir then is East-India if we beleeve Josephus lib. 8. Antiquit. Judaic c. 6. Acosta in lib. 1. Histor Ind. from whence Solomon fetched gold and precious stones But what Gomara in part 1. hist Ind. fol. 120. and Zarate in proaem hist Peru would have that ours did passe over that famous and much praised Island by Plato in Critia and Timaeus of Atlantis and so went into the neighbour Islands of Barlovent and from thence to the firm land and at last to the kingdom of Peru and New-Spaine it is deservedly exploded as fabulous and Acosta laughs at it in lib. 1. hist. Ind. c. 22. But Marsilius Ficinus in comment in Timaeum c. 4. Critia that he might defend Plato thinks and his disciples Porphyry Origen and Proclus do follow him that all that which is in Critia and in Timaeus is to be understood allegorically And who will believe Lescarbotus who saith that they are the Canaanites who fled thither for fear of Joshua For I cannot be perswaded that they sought out Countreys