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A GENERAL INDEX to the Whole.

Ισορίας αρχαίας ἐξέρχεθαι μὴ κατανοει· ἐν αὐταῖς γὰρ ευρήσεις
ἀκόπως, ἅπερ ἕτεροι συνῆξαν ἐγκόπως.

Bafil. Imp. ad Leon. fil.

IN RECTO DE CVS

LONDON:

Printed for T. OSBORNE, in Gray's-Inn; A, MILLAR, in
the Strand; and J. OSBORN, in Pater-nofter Row.

MDCCXLVII.

381.f.149.

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THE

Univerfal History,

FROM THE

Earliest Account of Time.

VOL. III.

BOOK I.

The ASIATIC History to the Time of
ALEXANDER the Great.

CHA P. VII. SE C T. II.

The religion, government, laws, customs, learning, art, and commerce, of the Jews.

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HE inftitution of the Jewish religion and common- The Jew wealth is, by Mofes, attributed wholly to God; gofor which reafon, Jofephus makes no fcruple to vernment diftinguish the latter from all the other governments in the world, by the name of theocracy, or a government under the immediate command and direction of GOD: and indeed, though this theocracy has often varied under Mofes, Joshua, the judges, kings, and high-priests, and the divine authority differently interpofed during those revolutions, yet God was ftill looked upon as the fupreme monarch of the Ifraelites. We fhall fee, in the fequel of a Cont. Apion. lib. ii.

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