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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

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

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