https://www.originalbibles.com/bible-lands-their-modern-customs-and-manners-pdf-1875/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 11:55:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.originalbibles.com/bible-lands-their-modern-customs-and-manners-pdf-1875/#comment-24726 Wed, 27 Dec 2023 03:50:35 +0000 http://www.originalbibles.com/?p=2538#comment-24726 Dear Sir, I’m looking for “… As to the origin of the name, … the Chinese were so called from the dynasty of the Thŝin, who reigned from the year 246, A.C., and onward (see Du Halde, Descr. de la Chine, t. i. ~ 1; Abel-Remusat, Melanges Asiatiques, ii. p. 334, seqq.), a Hebrew writer, contemporary with Cyrus …; but (whatever be thought of the people Tshinas, mentioned in the laws of Menu) the authors of this opinion themseves concede, that the name of that dynasty might be known amongst foreign nations before it was in possession of the whole empire of China … … as seen in Blue Letter Bible https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h5515/niv/wlc/0-1/

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