The Watchtower Society and John and Morton Edgar - A2Z.org

a clue to the origin of the worship of false gods ; andby colnparilig with certain statements in mytllc,logicalhistories We get a further clue to the identity of thesedeities. We read : "And Cush begat Nimrod: hebeg= to be a mighty one in the earth. He was amighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said,'Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.'And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, andErech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of ShinarOut of that land he went forth into Awyria and buildedNineveh," etc. (See margin.)Nimrod the Mighty Hunter, and his influoncein the World.Why should the Bible make special mention ofNimrod ? Because he was the first to become mighty ;and even to this day the countries of Babylonia andAssyria ere filled with the name of Nimrod. WhenMoses wrote Genesis, dthough Nimrod had long sincepassed away, his name h:d become a proverb, so thatit was a popular saying,; Even as Nimrod the mightyhunter before the Lord. His might lay in the fact ofhis being s hunter; for we must reflect on the conditionswhich would obtain in the earth in his day.Only four human pairs were preserved from the watersof the deluge ; but many kinds of animals came forthfrom the ark ; and as these animals multiplied one cansee how the terror of the more ferocious among themwould by had upon all men. He, therdore, whobrought destruction to tke tiger, the leopard, the lion,the python, was regarded as the great bemfmtor, them n above all others to be honoured by his fellowsand commemomted by posterity.The univemal popularity of an individual mustbe a forw for good or for evil to the community.