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    The Roman Empire the Empire of the Edomite
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    The Roman Empire the Empire of the Edomite

    By William Beeston

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    "Strong evidence that the Roman Empire is of Edomite origin ... left our minds in bewilderment ... is one to be studied." -Church of England Quarterly Review


    William Beeston in his 1858 book "The Roman Empire the Empire of the Edomit

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    Release dateJun 28, 2023
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      The Roman Empire the Empire of the Edomite - William Beeston

      The Roman Empire

      the Empire of the

      Edomite

      by

      William Beeston

      Originally published

      1858

      In the first year of the reign of Belshazzar king of Babylon, the prophet DANIEL had a dream, and visions of his head upon his bed. I saw, writes the prophet, in my vision by night, and behold the four winds of heaven strove upon the great sea, and FOUR BEASTS came up from the sea, diverse one from another. THE FIRST was like a LION, and had eagle's wings. And behold, another beast, A SECOND, like to a BEAR; and it raised itself up on one side; and it had three ribs in the mouth of it, between the teeth of it. After this, I beheld, and lo ANOTHER, like a LEOPARD, which had upon the back of it FOUR WINGS OF A FOWL; this beast had also FOUR HEADS. After this, I saw in the night visions, and behold a FOURTH BEAST, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured, and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was DIVERSE FROM ALL THE BEASTS THAT WERE BEFORE IT; and it had TEN HORNS. I saw in the night visions, and behold, ONE LIKE THE SONS OF MEN came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the ANCIENT OF DAYS, and they brought HIM near before HIM. And there was given HIM dominion, and glory, and a kingdom; that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve HIM * * * * I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things. These great beasts, which are four, are FOUR KINGS which must arise OUT OF THE EARTH. The fourth beast will be the FOURTH KINGDOM UPON EARTH; which will be DIVERSE FROM ALL KINGDOMS, and will devour the whole earth, and will tread it down, and break it in pieces. But the judgment will sit, and his dominion will be taken away; and the kingdom, and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, will be given to the PEOPLE OF THE SAINTS OF THE MOST HIGH; whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions must serve and obey HIM.

      The THREE FIRST BEASTS, or the empires of THE BABYLONIANS, THE PERSIANS, and THE MACEDONIANS, having successively passed away, the FOURTH BEAST, or KINGDOM, of the prophecy stood revealed in the iron domination of THE ROMANS; and to the consequent enquiry, WHENCE CAME THE ROMANS? that people have insisted on replying, in the words of their great poet, AB ORIS TROJAE: GENUS UNDE LATINUM; ALBANIQUE PATRES; ATQUE ALTAE MOENIA ROMAE.

      AENEAS, escaping from the destruction of Troy, after many adventures and dangers, arrived in Italy, where he was kindly received by LATINUS, the king of THE LATINS, who gave him his daughter in marriage. AENEAS built a city, which was called LAVINIUM, in honour of his wife. ASCANIUS, his son, succeeded to the kingdom, and to him SILVIUS, a second son; and the succession continued for more than three hundred years in the family; NUMITOR, the fifteenth from AEneas, being the last king. ROMULUS and REMUS, the grandsons of Numitor, resolved to build a town upon the hills where they had lived as shepherds; and, REMUS being slain, ROMULUS laid the foundations of that city which was one day to give law to the world. It was called ROME."

      But this tradition, which commanded the implicit belief of the Romans themselves, and was held by them in almost religious reverence, has by the learned of our own times been rejected and discarded; and the story of a Trojan colony in Latium is now denounced as fabulous, poetical, and DESTITUTE OF THE SLIGHTEST FOUNDATION IN HISTORICAL TRUTH. Still, the critical acumen which has been found powerful to destroy, has proved impotent to construct; it has deprived us of the ancient faith, but it does not offer us a better creed: at the present hour, all is confusion and conjecture; and the story of the foundation of Rome, and the people from whom THE ETERNAL CITY sprung, are admitted to be the very points about which the learned are most ignorant. Unspeakable, then, must our astonishment be, when we perceive, that this grand secret was certainly discovered, and disclosed, more than twelve hundred years ago; that the true answer to the question WHENCE CAME THE ROMANS? may have been returned, and even registered in writing, before the birth of Christ; that the response proceeded neither from Greek nor Roman, but from the DESPISED JEW; that it has been preserved to us in the JEWISH TARGUMS; that it exists amidst the fables and impieties, the absurdities and the blasphemies, of the JEWISH TALMUD; and that it may be comprehended in these twenty words: THE ROMANS CAME FROM ESAU, WHO IS EDOM; AND ITALY IS THE IDUMEA, ROME THE BOZRAH, OF THE HEBREW PROPHETS.

      The descendants of Esau, say the JEWISH RABBINS, the sworn enemies of the descendants of Jacob, even to the end of the world, were at first a small nation, inhabiting Mount Seir and the adjacent country, contiguous to the land of Canaan. They were easily confined within their own limits, so long as the Israelites enjoyed a great and formidable empire in Canaan: but, after that the powerful republic of the twelve tribes had been destroyed by the Assyrians and Babylonians, they wonderfully increased in numbers and in strength; extended their dominion in the West; subjugated Italy; founded Rome, and the Roman Empire; and at length entirely overturned the Jewish state, the Second Temple being destroyed by Titus Vespasian; and, professing the religion of Jesus Christ, which they were the first of all nations to embrace, they hold Jacob in captivity till MESSIAH BEN DAVID shall appear. The Rabbins further assert, that the prophecies of the prophets against Esau, Edom, and the cities of Edom, have as yet received but a partial accomplishment; and that they will obtain their fulfilment in the punishment and destruction of ROME CHRISTIAN: they designate the Eternal City IMPIOUS ROME; they denominate her empire the IMPIOUS KINGDOM, or KINGDOM OF IMPIETY; and they believe, that the SON OF DAVID will not come until this IMPIOUS KINGDOM SHALL HAVE BEEN EXTENDED OVER THE WHOLE WORLD. Such is the TRADITION OF THE RABBINS; and PAPAL ROME has done her utmost to suppress it: but without success. The two citations following will be sufficient for our present purpose.

      In the fourth chapter of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, it is written : "He will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom. The Elder Buxtorf  extracts the paraphrase of this passage given by the Targumist, and translates the Chaldee of the original into Latin, by these words: Isto tempore visitabo iniquitatem tuam, ROMAM IMPIAM, quas aedificata es in Italia, et repleta es turbis hominum EX POSTERIS EDOM. And he adds, Sic editiones duae primae Venetae. In posterioribus, ROMA IMPIA, et sequentia verba, omissa sunt, declinandae invidiae causa, relicto spatio exiguo, cui Judaei manu inscribes solent omissa, ut factum in exemplari quod apud me est, et a Judaeo care emptum." I have referred to a copy of the first edition of the Biblia Hebraica Rabbinnica, printed by Bomberg at Venice in the years 1517-8 and now in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and find that it contains the passage as cited and translated by Buxtorf. There is, therefore, every reason to suppose that the reading of the first edition of the Bomberg Bible is the genuine paraphrase of the Targumist; and that the author of the Targum from which it is extracted was

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