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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

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

THE HOPE of ISRAEL Written By MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL an 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 Antony Montezinus a Jew of what befell him as he travelled over the Mountaines Cordillaere with divers other particulars about the restoratiòn of the Jewes and the time when Printed at London by R. I. for Hannah Allen at the Crown in Popes-head Alley 1650. To the Parliament the Supream Court of England and to the right Honourable the Councell of State Menasseh Ben Israell prayes God to give health and all Happinesse IT is not one cause alone most renowned Fathers which useth to move those who desire by their Meditations to benefit Mankind and to make them come forth in publique to dedicate their Books to great Men for some and those the most are incited by Covetousnesse that they may get money by so doing or some peice of plate of Gold or Silver sometimes also that they may obtaine their votes and suffrages to get some place for themselves or their friends But some are moved thereto by meere and pure friendship that so they may publickly testifie that love and affection which they beare them whose names they prefixe to their Books let the one and the other please themselves according as they delight in the reason of the Dedication whether it be good or bad for my part I best like them who doe it upon this ground that they may not commend themselves or theirs but what is for publick good As for me most renowned Fathers in my dedicating this Discourse to you I can truly affirme that I am induced to it upon no other ground then this that I may gaine your favour and good will to our Nation now scattered almost all over the earth neither thinke that I doe this as if I were ignorant how much you have hitherto favoured our Nation for it is made knowne to me and to others of our Nation by them who are so happy as neare at hand to observe your apprehensions that ye doe vouchsafe to help us not only by your prayers yea this hath compelled me to speak to ye publickly and to give ye thanks for that your charitable affection towards us and not such thankes which come only from the tongue but as are conceived by a gratefull minde Give me leave therefore most renowned Fathers to supplicate ye that ye would still favour our good and farther love us Truly we men doe draw so much the nearer to Divine nature when by how much we increase by so much we cherish and defend the small and weake ones and with how much diligence doe you performe this most renowned Fathers who though ye seeme to be arrived to the highest top of felicity yet ye doe not only not despise inferiour men but ye so wish well to them that ye seeme sensible of their calamity ye knowing how acceptable to God ye are by so doing who loves to doe good to them who doe good And truly it is from hence that of late ye have done so great things valiantly and by an unusuall attempt and things much to be observed among the Nations The whole world stands amazed at these things and the eyes of all are turned upon ye that they may see whither all these things do tend which the great Governour of all things seems to bring upon the world by so great changes so famously remarkable of so many Nations and so all those things which God is pleased to have fore-told by the Prophets doe and shall obtaine their accomplishment All which things of necessity must be fulfilled that so Israel at last being brought back to his owne place peace which is promised under the Messiah may be restored to the world concord which is the only Mother of all good things These things I handle more largely in this Treatise which I dedicate to ye most renowned Fathers ye cannot be ignorant that it is not only not unprofitable but very usefull for States and States-men to fore-see the issue which yet is ever in Gods hand of humane Counsels that so they may observe and understand from Divine truth the events of things to come which God hath determined by his Spirit in his holy Prophets I know that this my labour will not be unacceptable to ye how meane soever it be which I trust ye will cheerfully receive because that ye love our Nation and as part of it the Author of this Discourse But I entreat you be certain that I pour out continuall prayers to God for your happinesse Farewell most renowned Fathers and flourish most prosperously Menasseh Ben Israel MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL to the courteous Reader THere are as many mindes as men about the originall of the people of America and of the first inhabitants of the new World and of the West-Indies for how many men soever they were or are they came of those two Adam and Eve and consequently of Noah after the Floud But that new World doth seeme wholly separated from the old therefore it must be that some did passe thither out of one at least of the three parts of the World sc Europe Asia and Africa but the doubt is what people were those and out of what place they went Truly the truth of that must be gathered partly out of the ancient Histories and partly from conjectures as their Habit their Language their Manners which yet doe vary according to mens dispositions so that it is hard to finde out the certainty Almost all who have viewed those Countries with great diligence have been of different judgements Some would have the praise of finding out America to be due to the Carthaginians others to the Phenicians or the Canaanites others to the Indians or people of China others to them of Norway others to the inhabitants of the Atlantick Islands others to the Tartarians others to the ten Tribes Indeed every one grounds his opinion not upon probable arguments but high conjectures as will appeare farther by this Booke But I having curiously examined what ever hath hitherto been writ upon this Subject doe finde no opinion more probable nor agreeable to reason than that of our Montezinus who saith that the first inhabitants of America were the ten Tribes of the Israelites whom the Tartarians conquered and drove away who after that as God would have it hid themselves behind the Mountaines Cordillerae I also shew that as they were not driven out at once from their Country so also they were scattered into divers Provinces sc into America into Tartary into China into Media to the Sabbaticall River and into Aethiopia I prove that the ten Tribes never returned to the second Temple that they yet keep the

sails doth sail beyond the rivers of Ethiopia by whom the Prophet saith are sent ambassadors in ships of bulrushes such as the Ethiopians use commonly called Almadiae Bring back a people driven out of their countrey and torn and more miserable then any among us Gifts shall be brought to the Lord of Sebaoth in the place where the name of the Lord of Sebaoth is worshipped in the mount Sion The Prophet Zephany saith the same in Zeph. 3.9 10. Then will I give to the people that they speaking a pure language may all call upon the name of God whom they shall serve with reverence from beyond the rivers of Ethiopia they shall bring to me for a gist Hatray the daughter of my dispersed ones that is the Nations of Ethiopia Which agrees with that of Isa And your brethren which are the 10. Tribes shall bring gifts to the Lord. SECT XIX ANd without doubt they also dwell in Media from thence they passed Enphrates whither they were first brought as in 2 King 17.24 and in the book of Tobit Josephus also speaks of them in the Preface of his book of the War of the Jews that the Jews did think that their brethren who dwelt beyond Euphrates and farther would rebell against the Romanes Agrippa in his oration to the people of Jerusalem that they would not rebell against the Romanes speaks thus What associates do ye expect to joyn with you in your rebellion and war doth not all the known world pay tribute to the Romans Perhaps some of ye hope to have help from them beyond Euphrates And in lib. 2. Antiquit c. 5. speaking of those who in the time of Ezra returned from Babylon to Jerusalem he saith All Israel dwelt in Media for two Tribes only dwelt in Asia and Europe and lived subject to the Romans as the other ten on the other side Enphrates where they are so many that they cannot be counted It is not therfore to be doubted the people encreasing after their first transportation they sought out new places which we have formerly mentioned SECT XX. LAstly all think that part of the ten Tribes dwell beyond the river Sabbathion or sabbaticall Rabbi Johanan the Author of the Jerusalem Talmud who lived 160 years after the destruction of the 2d Temple saith in his treatise of the Sanhedrim ca. 17. That the 10. Tribes were carried into 3. places sc to the Sabbaticall river to Daphne the suburbs of Antioch and thither where a cloud comes down and covers them and that they shall be redeemed from those three places for so he opens that place of Isa Chap. 49.9 That they may say to the captives go forth sc to them who were at the Sabbaticall river to them that are in darknesse shew your selves sc to them who are compassed with the cloud and to all they shall be refreshed in the wayes sc to them who live in Daphne of Antioch which is in Syria Whence you may observe that the learned man l'Emperiur translated it ill at the sides of Antioch whereas Daphne is the proper name of a pleasant grove near Antioch Sedar olam makes mention of that cloud and cals them mountains of obscurity And in Talmud tractat Sanhedr c. 11. R. Jonathan ben Vziel who lived an hundred yeers before the destruction of the 2d Temple in Exod. 34.10 where the Lord saith I will do wonders before all thy people such as were never done in the whole earth or in any Nation c. and he refers all those things to the transportation of the people He shall draw them to the rivers of Babylon and shall carry them to the sabbaticall river and shall teach them that those miracles were never performed to any Nation of the known world Our ancient Rabbins in Beresit Rabba no mean book in Perasach do say that Tornunfus asking how it should appear that the day which we keep is the 7th day on which God rested after the Creation of the world Rabbi Aquebah who lived 52. yeers after the destruction of the 2d Temple answered by an argument taken from the stones of the Sabbaticall river which in the six dayes are tossed up and down with a continuall motion but do rest on the Sabbath day and move not The same is said in the Babylonian Talmud tractat Sanhed c. 7. in Tanuah Perasach c. 9. In eodem Beresit Raba in Perasach 37. Rabbi Simon saith The ten Tribes were carried to the Sabbaticall river but Juda and Benjamin are dispersed into all Countreys In Asirim Raba the last verse of the Song it s said Our bed is flourishing that it is meant the ten Tribes which were carried to the Sabbaticall river and that river running all the week doth cause the ten Tribes there remaining to be shut up for though on the 7th day the river doth rest yet it is forbidden by our Law to take a journey then and for that reason they remained there miraculously as lost and concealed from us So that of Isa 49. That they say to the prisoners go forth is interpreted of them in Jalcut R. Aquebah after the same manner explains that of Levit. 36.38 And ye shall perish among the heathen And that of Isa 27. ult and they shall come who were ready to perish in Assyria Because they are remote from the rest therefore another Rabbi in Bamibar Raba Parasa 16. applyes to them that of Isa 49.12 Behold them who come from far that so all those Authors mention that River The testimony of Josephus is famous lib. 7. de Bel. Jud. ca. 24. saying The Emperour Titus passing between Arca and Raphanea Cities of King Agrippa he saw the wonderfull River which though it be swift yet it is dry on every seventh day and that day being past it resumes its ordinary course as if it had no change and it always observes this order It is called Sabbaticall from the solemn feast of the Jews because it imitates their rest every seventh day I know some do otherwise expound those words of Josephus but they hit not his meaning as appears by this that he cals the River Sabbathio or sabbaticall which word cannot be derived but from Sabbath and who doth not see that it ceaseth to flow or move on the Sabbath day and so Josephus must be understood according to my sense Pliny also confirms this opinion lib. 1. Nat hist c. 2. he saith In Judea a river lyes dry every Sabbath yet I think Pliny is deceived and ill informed when he saith it is a river in Judea neither is it to be found in Judea but in another place where many Jews live R. Selomoh Jarchi who lived 540. yeers since mentions that River in Comment Talm. saying The stones and sand of that River do continually move all the six dayes of the week untill the seventh R. Mardochus Japhe in his learned book Jephe Thoar saith The Arabians derive Sabbathion from the Sabbath who use to adde the particle ion to adjectives The