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~tey the tiownward course, for the Lord's people in allages fro111 the ulne of rigllleous Abel have protestedagainst sin. If the tradition of the Jews be true thatShem was hlelchizedec (and the claim seems reasonableand quite in accord with Scripture analogy), then.as " Priest of the most high God" he must have bee11a very Hercules in the Lord's cause, and a constantcheck to the evilly disposed.'rhus far we may reasonably infer from the briefreferences to Kimrod given in the Scriptures. 'I'ogain further information about this mighty hunter wcrequire to study the pages of Mythology.Ninus and Semiramis.in Gel]. 10 : 11, already quoted, we reau that Nilnrotlbuilt the city of Nineveh. This little itern of Biblehistory enables us to identify Nimrod with the kingNinus of classical writings. The name Ninevehliterally means " 'l'he habitation of Ninus." The historianApollodorus expressly states that "Ninus isNimrod" (Apollodori, Fragm. 68 in Mul!er, Vol. i, p.440). In the ancient records of Justin and DiodorusSiculus, Ninus is credited with similar kingly powersas aTe attributed to Eimrod by the Scriptures (Justin,flist. li'om. Script., Vol. ii, p. 615; Diodorus, Bibliotheca,lib. ii, p. 63). Sinus was the son, as well as tlidhusband, of Semiramis. According to Eusebius thesetwo reigned as king and queen in the time of Abraham;but the great chror~olopist Clinton, and the celebratedExcavator and Linguist Layard, both assign an earlierdate to the reign of Ninus and Semiramis.In one of the famous sculptures of ancient Babylon,Ninus and Semiramis are represented as activelyengaged in the pursuits of the chase, the "quiverbearingSemiramis " being a fit conlpalrion for the